Chapter 25 example #53866

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

Who was the recipient of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?

Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" declared that:

In 1963 during the Birmingham civil rights demonstrations, firemen:

During the Bay of Pigs invasion:

The Cuban Missile Crisis:

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

In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which:

Lyndon Johnson remarked, "I think we delivered the South to the Republican Party" after:

During Freedom Summer:

Malcolm X:

Radical feminists:

The gay liberation movement:

After the Stonewall riot:

Chicano farm workers found a powerful advocate in:

The Young Lords Organization in New York City represented:

The American Indian Movement:

In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that:

The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision:

Freedom Riders were

James Meredith is best known as the

Regarding civil rights during his presidency, John Kennedy

The 1964 Civil Rights Act did not

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Which politician remarked, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"?

The Immigration Reform Act of 1965

The Great Society

Johnson's administration attributed poverty in America to all of the following except

The 1968 Kerner Report, which cited segregation and poverty for the violence, was commissioned to study the

What was not part of the Chicago freedom movement platform?

Black Power emerged as a response to

The New Left

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring inspired the

The free speech movement

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution

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

The antiwar movement

The National Organization for Women (NOW) campaigned for

In the 1960s, Latino rights were especially the focus of the

The Warren Court

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated

Which event did not occur in 1968?

In his 1968 election campaign Richard Nixon appealed to the

The legacies of the 1960s include

The civil rights movement inspired

The National Organization for women campaigned for all of the following except what?

The counterculture of the 1960's can be described as what?

What was the attitude of the New Left toward University professors as seen in Port Huron statement?

The 1965 Voting Rights Act did what?

At the 1968 miss America beauty pageant feminists protesters threw all of the following items into the freedom trash can except what?

The port Huron statement

Which event marked the turning point in the Vietnam conflict, forcing president Johnson to change course and pull out of the upcoming presidential race?

All of the following statements about the black panthers party are true except what?

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

The black panthers emerged as a response to all of the following factors except what?

Radical feminists focused on

The sit in at Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 reflected what?

Freedom Riders

The 1963 March on Washington

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

The Alliance for Progress

Republican Barry Goldwater viewed ____________ as a threat to freedom

The Young Americans for Freedom

The Hart-Celler Act of 1965

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

How did Mario Savio define freedom?

The Anti-War Movement

In the "Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan

At the 1968 Miss America beauty pageant, feminist protesters threw _______ into the "freedom trash can"

In 1966 the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that

The Chicago Freedom movement launched by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1966 fought for

The Black Power movement

In what year did the "high point of protest" come in the second phase of the Civil Rights Movement?

Which city did MLK call "the most thoroughly segregated city in America"?

Who does Foner call the "intellectual father of Black Power"?

According to defenders of the Vietnam War, American military withdrawal would encourage the spread of communism elsewhere around the world.

As part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, poor people were required to play a leading part in designing and implementing local policies.

As part of the Freedom Summer, in June 1964 three young voting rights activists were murdered in Mississippi—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

At the 1968 Miss America beauty pageant, the media came to derisively label radical feminists as "bra burners," but no bras were actually burned at the event.

Coupled with the high rate of economic growth in the 1960s, the War on Poverty succeeded in reducing the incidence of poverty overall.

Following a 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gathering place for homosexuals in New York City's Greenwich Village, five days of rioting occurred and a militant gay rights movement was born.

In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court struck down all laws discriminating against homosexuals as a violation of the right to privacy.

In his August 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial delivered to 250,000 black and white Americans, Martin Luther King Jr., declared: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' "

In the "counterculture" of the 1960s, there was, for the first time in American history, a rejection of respectable norms of clothing, language, and sexual behavior.

In the weeks following passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a joyful calm, mixed with a great celebratory jubilee that included parades, barbecues, and church prayer meetings, characterized the principal response of inner-city African-Americans to the new law.

Johnson's Great Society failed to reduce poverty in America to any significant degree.

President Johnson entered office determined to see a substantial civil rights bill passed by Congress.

President Kennedy entered office determined to rid American foreign policy of its Cold War assumptions.

President Kennedy's policy toward Latin America, the Alliance for Progress, has generally been regarded as an overwhelming success.

President Lyndon Johnson grew up in one of the wealthiest sections of United States—the Central Texas Hill Country.

Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election by the largest landslide in American history.

Rock festivals, like Woodstock in upstate New York in 1969, brought together hundreds of thousands of women seeking equal rights, equal pay, and equal respect.

The 1968 military engagement in which Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops launched well-organized uprisings in cities throughout South Vietnam and completely surprised American military leaders was called the Tet offensive.

The Democratic segregationist challenger for the 1964 presidential election was

The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in marked the first appearance of college students at the forefront of social protest in America.

The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution is the 1965 law that allowed federal officials to register voters.

The Vietnam War was the longest war in American history and the only military war that the United States has lost.

The centerpiece of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was the endeavor to eradicate poverty.

The civil rights bill and program of domestic liberalism launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson were far less ambitious than President Kennedy's initiatives on these matters

The controversial Supreme Court ruling, which created a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy was called Griswold v. Connecticut.

The social movements of 1960s America were mimicked in countries around the world, with massive antiwar demonstrations, and demands for improved workplaces and women's rights.

This conservative political group was founded in 1960 after meeting at the estate of William F. Buckley, with a goal of taking control of the Republican Party from leaders who had, in their opinions, embraced some communist doctrines, such as the New Deal.

This prominent militant group, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, was varied in their focus. While becoming notorious for armed self-defense in response to police brutality, they also ran health clinics, schools, and children's breakfast programs.

Which was not an event in the civil rights movement of 1963?

Which was not part of President Johnson's 1965-1967 "Great Society"?

While not confirmed, it is assumed the assassin of John F. Kennedy was Sirhan Sirhan.

While serving a nine-day jail term in 1963 for violating a ban on demonstrations, Martin Luther King Jr., wrote his eloquent plea for racial justice, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

With the sit-ins, college students stepped onto the stage of American history as a leading force for social change.

In a single week in June 1963, more than 15,000 people were arrested in 186 cities across the United States in civil rights demonstrations, with Birmingham, Alabama, as the citadel of segregation.