US History Chapter 28 Questions

Which of the following factors contributed to John F. Kennedy's win in the presidential election of 1960?

The African American vote and Lyndon Johnson's strength in the South

To eradicate poverty and solve most social problems, President Kennedy believed the United States needed to

grow the economy.

In the months before his death, President Kennedy had been pursuing initiatives such as

programs to attack poverty, grow the economy, and promote civil rights.

What did the Warren Commission conclude about the assassination of President Kennedy?

Both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby had acted alone.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson brought to the White House

enormous skill in persuading and threatening legislators.

What made the Community Action Program the most controversial part of the War on Poverty programs?

It required the maximum feasible participation of the poor it proposed to help.

In the election of 1964,

Lyndon Johnson was elected president in a record-breaking landslide.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 mandated that funds for education be distributed

based on the number of poor children enrolled in each public school district.

The Medicare program provided

universal compulsory insurance for the elderly.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 changed U.S. immigration policy by

abolishing the national-origins quota system.

In 1965, President Johnson became the first president to send Congress a special message on

the condition of the environment.

What was the outcome of the National Housing Act of 1968?

The decision to keep construction and ownership of low-income housing in the private sector

What was the end result of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty?

There was not any significant redistribution of total national income.

Following the enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the United States,

physicians' fees and hospital costs escalated dramatically.

The Warren Court expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and individual rights by

supporting an activist government.

In its 1963 decision in Baker v. Carr, the Supreme Court established the

principle of one person, one vote for state and national legislatures.

All in all, major decisions from the Warren Court

have withstood the test of time.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

initially organized peaceful demonstrations using civil disobedience.

The Congress of Racial Equality organized the Freedom Rides in 1961 to

integrate interstate transportation in the South.

The civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963

ended with the police attacking the peaceful demonstrators.

At a massive civil rights demonstration in the nation's capital in August 1963,

Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech.

The Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964

put northern college students to work helping blacks register to vote.

How did President Kennedy respond to James H. Meredith's attempt to enroll at the University of Mississippi?

He dispatched federal troops to protect Meredith and allow his enrollment.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was

a ban on discrimination, including gender discrimination, in employment.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 transformed southern politics by

authorizing the use of federal agents to enforce African Americans' right to register and vote.

Why did President Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action program provoke more controversy than any other civil rights measures?

Critics argued that it promoted reverse discrimination.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 addressed racial equality

through a ban on discrimination in housing and jury selection.

By 1966, the civil rights movement in the United States

was no longer committed to nonviolence.

Which of the following describes the Nation of Islam in the United States in the early 1960s?

The organization called for black nationalism and separatism.

By 1966, the principles espoused by Malcolm X had given rise to

the black power movement.

As the radical chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Stokely Carmichael

called for blacks to form their own political organizations

When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he was

supporting a municipal garbage workers' strike in Memphis

What 1969 event became the most dramatic action taken by militant Indians in the United States?

Local Indian activists' seizure and occupation of Alcatraz Island

One important goal of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s was

the establishment of survival schools to teach Indian history and values.

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized the Chicanos primarily to achieve

improved conditions of migrant farmworkers in California.

Like black nationalist organizations, La Raza Unida

made cultural pride and brotherhood a central part of its agenda.

In the 1960s, the members of Students for a Democratic Society

wanted to mobilize a New Left around the goals of civil rights, peace, and universal economic security.

In 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley, held a large-scale protest in support of

free speech.

Drawing on the example of the Beats, the counterculture of the 1960s

focused on personal rather than political change.

What was the event that sparked a larger movement to end discrimination against gay men and lesbians in 1969?

A police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City

What factor helped to spark the new wave of feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s?

An escalating number of women performing paid jobs in the workplace

In 1966, feminists led by Betty Friedan and others founded

the National Organization for Women

The radical feminist movement differed from the National Organization for Women and other mainstream feminist organizations in that

radical feminists sought fundamental changes in the nation's institutions.

Why were women of color critical of white women's feminist organizations?

White feminists ignored the poverty faced by many minority women.

Phyllis Schlafly is most closely associated with

the conservative challenge to feminism in the 1970s.

Which of the following is an example of the sweeping change forged by feminists in the 1960s and 1970s?

Passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972

During the Nixon administration, the number of government assistance programs

was reduced drastically.

Stagflation describes an economy that combines

unemployment with inflation.

The new environmentalists of the 1970s broadened the agenda of the Progressive-era conservation movement by

shifting attention away from land preservation toward the preservation of threatened species.

Out of all protest groups, President Nixon gave the most public support for justice to

Native Americans.