Deck 29: Civil Rights and Uncivil Liberties 1947-1969

Question 1

The chapter introduction tells the story of a schoolgirl and a teacher to make the point that

A) education was an important focus of the liberal agenda for reform.
B) the civil rights movement's emphasis on integration actually proved a failure.
C) adult white southerners, steeped in racial stereotypes, could not adjust to school integration.
D) the wrenching changes of the 1960s, which affected most Americans, grew out of the social trends and conditions of the 1950s.

Answer 1

the wrenching changes of the 1960s, which affected most Americans, grew out of the social trends and conditions of the 1950s.

Question 2

What finally pushed the Kennedy administration to commit to federal legislation to end segregation and protect voting rights?

A) the rulings of the Warren Court
B) the riots in northern cities
C) the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
D) the violent repression of nonviolent demonstrations

Answer 2

the violent repression of nonviolent demonstrations

Question 3

The case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka concerned

A) prayer in public schools.
B) federal aid to education.
C) racial segregation in public schools.
D) equal access to schools.

Answer 3

racial segregation in public schools.

Question 4

The Black Panther Party believed in

A) peaceful coexistence between the races.
B) armed protection and protest.
C) racial and gender liberation.
D) more humane treatment of animals in zoos and research labs.

Question 5

Martin Luther King Jr. rose to leadership in the civil rights movement during the 1950s. His strategies, different from those of the recent past, would become the primary techniques of the civil rights movement into the 1960s. What is the most accurate summary of this transition in the movement?

A) Direct and often violent confrontation replaced nonviolent passive resistance.
B) King's rhetorical skills on TV, rather than organized action, caught the nation's attention.
C) King appealed directly to President Eisenhower to lend his support to efforts to speed up desegregation.
D) King proposed nonviolent confrontation rather than the NAACP's strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts.

Question 6

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 "marked one of the great moments in the history of American reform."It did which of the following?

A) require that persons accused of crimes be informed of their rights and allowed to consult a lawyer.
B) ban discrimination in private clubs.
C) ban discrimination in health care.
D) authorize the attorney general to bring suit to desegregate schools, museums, and other public facilities.

Question 7

The Economic Opportunity Act was "the most sweeping social welfare bill since the New Deal."Its provisions included which of the following?

A) the Women's Corps
B) the Peace Corps
C) development loans to rural families and urban businesses
D) a billion dollars for the military

Question 8

All of the following were elements of Johnson's "Great Society"programs EXCEPT

A) a health insurance program for the elderly.
B) an anti-poverty program.
C) a medical care program for the poor.
D) a funding program to return tax revenues to states.

Question 9

The Immigration Act of 1965

A) extended the national origins quota system.
B) abolished the national origins quota system.
C) ended all immigration from Asia.
D) lifted all restrictions on immigration from Latin America.

Question 10

What happened to fashion in the 1960s?

A) Due to new, cheaper fabrics, working-class people could mimic the dress of the rich.
B) During the initial stages of the Vietnam War, military-style outfits became popular, but then oriental styles took precedence as the war became unpopular.
C) Dress became a symbol of individuality, as youth strove to dress as differently from each other as possible.
D) Nonconformist costumes of the counterculture became standardized symbols of rebellion, but then were adopted as mainstream modes of dress.

Question 11

The Beatles had a powerful influence on American popular culture in what way?

A) reintroducing Americans to an element of their own music-rhythm and blues
B) introducing Americans to Indian musical and religious motifs
C) popularizing lyrics with an activist social message
D) popularizing lyrics with an anti-drug message

Question 12

What geographic reorientation of popular culture had occurred by the later 1960s?

A) the rise of the West Coast as trend-setter
B) a return to the southern roots of both black rhythm and blues and white rock 'n' roll
C) the shift from rural to urban settings in television shows
D) the rise of the "Big Apple" (New York City) as the center of the recording and film industries

Question 13

One of the key concepts articulated in the "Port Huron Statement"of Students for a Democratic Society was

A) bureaucratic efficiency.
B) participatory democracy.
C) Marxist ideological purity.
D) personal moral autonomy.

Question 14

Which of the following musicians transformed himself from the quintessential folk protest artist into a major force in American rock music?

A) Buddy Holly
B) Elvis Presley
C) Bob Dylan
D) Jerry Garcia

Question 15

In which place, in 1969, did all the positive forces of the counterculture come together to celebrate peace, love, and freedom?

A) Monterey
B) Altamont
C) Chicago
D) Woodstock

Question 16

Which of the following civil rights organizations effectively used the nation's judicial system to implement lasting change in America?

A) NAACP
B) SNCC
C) CORE
D) Black Panthers

Question 17

For the Kennedy administration, which of the following presented the most divisive issue that it had to face?

A) the war in Vietnam
B) the civil rights movement
C) class divisions in America
D) labor union activism

Question 18

Which of the following groups represented the most radical and violent choice available to black Americans in the 1960s?

A) Black Muslims
B) Nation of Islam
C) SNCC
D) Black Panthers

Question 19

Supreme Court decisions designed to protect the rights of citizens who had been accused but not yet convicted of a crime were intended to benefit which group in society?

A) no group in particular
B) the poor
C) immigrants
D) African Americans

Question 20

The liberal chief justice of the Supreme Court during the 1960s was ________.

Question 21

"I Have a Dream,"the great landmark speech of the civil rights movement, was delivered from the ________ in 1963 by Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 22

An early protest effort, known as the ________ Movement, gave the University of California at Berkeley its reputation as a center of campus protest.

Question 23

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overturned the doctrine of "________."

Question 24

After World War II, the NAACP used the ________ system as the center of its strategy to advance civil rights for African Americans.

Question 25

Martin Luther King Jr. gained fame in the mid-1950s as one of the key leaders of a bus ________ in Montgomery, Alabama.

Question 26

The first big test for desegregation came in the city of ________, where President Eisenhower federalized the state National Guard when the governor defied the court ruling.

Question 27

What important ideas influenced Martin Luther King Jr.'s approach to civil rights protest? How did he put those ideas into practice?

Question 28

For what reason did the Supreme Court overturn Plessy v. Ferguson in Brown v. Board of Education?

Question 29

What were three major achievements of the civil rights movement during the 1960s?

Question 30

In what ways did the New Left and the counterculture have roots in traditional American practices and beliefs?

Question 31

In what ways did the West Coast play a prominent role in the youth rebellion of the 1960s?

Question 32

Explain the major areas of social change sparked by decisions under the Warren Court.

Question 33

Explain how the Great Society fought its war on poverty.

Question 34

Explain how drugs, sexual experimentation, and rock music influenced the counterculture.

Question 35

In what ways did the student protest movements and civil rights campaigns of the 1960s arise out of the generally placid decade of the 1950s?

Question 36

Compare the achievements and shortcomings of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Question 37

Why did the nonviolent civil rights movement give way, on the eve of its greatest successes, to more radical black nationalism and a climate of violence?

Question 38

Why did music play such a large role in the youth rebellion of the 1960s?

Question 39

In what ways did Lyndon Johnson's Great Society invite criticism of liberal reform as "tax and spend"?

Question 40

Defend or attack the use of civil disobedience as a strategy in the civil rights movement, using Martin Luther King Jr.'s early career as an example of the technique.