DCUSH CHP 25 SET 2 (long)

The sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960

reflected mounting frustration at the slow pace of racial change

By the end of 1960, some 70,000 demonstrators had taken part in sit-ins across the South to protest

segregation

the freedom rides:

were launched by CORE to desegregate bus travel

James Meredith is best known as the:

First black student admitted into the University of Mississippi

who was the recipient of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "letter from birmingham jail"

local clergymen

martin luther king jr.'s "letter from Birmingham Jail" declared that:

the white moderate had to put aside his fear of disorder and commit to racial justice

In his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King JR:

discussed the litany of abuses faced by blacks in the south and the need for change

When Birmingham police chief Bull Connor used nightsticks, high-pressure hoses, and attack dogs on young civil rights protesters:

there was a wave of revulsion globally

in 1963 during the Birmingham civil rights demonstrations, firemen

assaulted young demonstrators with high pressure hoses

The 1963 March on Washington:

was a high point in black and white cooperation.

To combat communism, one of John Kennedy's first acts was to

establish the peace corps

The alliance for progress:

was President Kennedy's Marshall Plan for Latin America

During the Bay of Pigs invasion:

the cia failed in its mission

the cuban missile crisis

brought the united states and the soviets to the brink of nuclear war

Regarding civil rights during his presidency, John Kennedy

was reluctant to address the movement's demands until 1963

What event forced John F. Kennedy to take meaningful action in support of the civil rights movement?

kings demonstration in birmingham

in 1964, congress passed the civil rights act which:

prohibited both racial and sexual discrimination in employment and public institutions

the 1964 civil rights act did not:

ban discriminatory laws that prevented suffrage

Lyndon Johnson remarked, "i think we delivered the south to the republican party" after:

passage of the 1964 civil rights act

during freedom summer

A coalition of civil rights groups launched a voter registration drive in Mississippi

the mississippi freedom democratic party:

Challenged the white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

Republican Barry Goldwater viewed ____________ as a threat to freedom

the new deal welfare state

Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign emphasized

a reduction in gov regulation

which politician remarked, "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice?"

Barry goldwater

the young americans for freedom:

believed that the free market assured personal freedom.

the port huron statement was to the students for a democratic society what the__________ was to the young americans for freedom

sharon statement

the 1965 voting rights act:

empowered federal officials to oversee voter registration

the hart-cellar act of 1965:

establish new racially neutral criteria

the hart-cellar act of 1965 did all of the following EXCEPT:

it was forced through congress in response to increasing number of refugees in vietnam

the great society:

included Lyndon Johnson's crusade to end poverty in America

Johnson's War on Poverty included all of the following programs EXCEPT

jobs for unemplyed americans

The Kerner Report:

blamed the urban riots on segregation and poverty

all of the following were part of Martin Luther King Jr. Chicago Freedom Movement platform EXCEPT:

voter registration of black citizens

Malcom x

insisted that blacks have economic and political autonomy

Black Power emerged as a response to all of the following factors EXCEPT:

the passage of the civil rights act

all of the following statements about the Black Panther Party are true EXCEPT:

the black panther rejected the idea of self determination

The New Left:

called for a democracy of citizen participation

The port Huron Statement:

offered a vision for social change based on participatory democracy

The free speech movement;

began at Berkeley because of the ban on their political literature

How did Mario Savio define freedom?

As freedom of expression

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution:

authorized the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack" in vietnam

By 1968, the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam

exceeded half a million as the war became more brutal

what was the attitude of the New Left toward university professors, as seen in the Port Huron statement?

they thought them puppets of the military industrial complex

The antiwar movement:

challenged the foundations of Cold War thinking.

the counterculture of the 1960s can best be described as;

a rejection of mainstream values

why was liberation theology so popular in latin america in the 1960's

reforms in the catholic church had inspired social justice activists

in the Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan

focused on the discontents of middle-class women.

The national organization for women (NOW) campaigned for all of the following EXCEPT:

an end to the equal employment opportunity commission

at the 1968 Miss America beauty pageant, feminist protesters threw all of the following items into the "freedom trash can" EXCEPT

birth-control pills

Radical feminists:

argued that the "personal is political"

The gay liberation movement:

was inspired by the civil rights movement

after the stonewall riot:

a militant gay liberation movement was born.

Chicano farm workers found a powerful advocate in:

Cesar Chavez

in the 1960s, latino rights in particular were the focus of the:

united farm workers

the young lords organization in new york city represented

puerto ricans

the american indian movement:

Demanded greater tribal self-government

rachel carson's silent spring inspired the:

environmental movement

in 1967, the supreme court ruled in Loving v Virginia that:

state laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional

in 1966, the supreme court ruled in miranda v arizona that:

those in police custody had certain rights

The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision

created a woman's constitutional right to an abortion

the warren court:

seemed to accept the feminist view of the family as a collection of sovereign individuals rather than a single unit with male head

which event marked the turning point in the vietnam conflict, forcing lyndon johnson to change course and pull out of the upcoming presidential race?

the tet offensive

on april 4, 1968 martin luther king jr was assassinated;

while in memphis supporting garbage worker strike

in his 1968 election campaign richard nixon appealed to

silent majority

the legacies if the 1960s include

a transformation in status of women