Question 1

Beginning with Watts, the major race riots of 1965 and 1966:

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occurred largely in urban areas.

Question 2

Malcolm X:

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said blacks should be proud of their African heritage.

Question 3

Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:

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the University of Mississippi.

Question 4

President Johnson's first priority on the domestic front was to:

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break the logjam in Congress that had blocked Kennedy's legislative efforts.

Question 5

The Bay of Pigs invasion:

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was thoroughly bungled by the CIA.

Question 6

The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:

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his brother, Robert.

Question 7

Kennedy's legislative program:

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was largely blocked by conservatives in Congress.

Question 8

The major purpose of the Soviet missiles placed in Cuba was to:

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deter another American-supported invasion of Cuba.

Question 9

In his Letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.:

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declared his willingness to break unjust laws.

Question 10

Kennedy's inauguration is best remembered for:

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his elegant and inspiring rhetoric.

Question 11

During the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy:

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promised to pursue a new frontier.

Question 12

Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson:

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genuinely cared about the disadvantaged in society.

Question 13

The strongest and most visible opposition to Diem's government was led by:

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Buddhists.

Question 14

The Tet offensive of early 1968:

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dramatically affected public support for Johnson's war policy.

Question 15

In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:

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erecting the Berlin Wall.

Question 16

In early 1968, increasing opposition to the war within his own party:

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ultimately forced Johnson out of the presidential race.

Question 17

The Cuban missile crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:

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a U.S.-Soviet agreement to scrap nuclear weapons.

Question 18

The result of the 1960 election:

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was a narrow victory for Kennedy.

Question 19

Changes in immigration law in 1965:

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removed quotas based on national origin.

Question 20

The legislation passed by Congress at Johnson's urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:

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government guarantee of full employment.

Question 21

All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT:

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the Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen.

Question 22

The first African American cabinet member was:

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Robert C. Weaver.

Question 23

The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago:

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resulted in massive rioting in the streets.

Question 24

During the 1964 campaign, Republican nominee Barry Goldwater:

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offered a sharply conservative alternative to Johnson's policies.

Question 25

The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:

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the sit-in.

Question 26

Richard Nixon:

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possessed a shrewd intelligence and a compulsive love for combative politics.

Question 27

The Voting Rights Act of 1965:

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dramatically expanded black votes in the South.

Question 28

President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:

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Great Society.

Question 29

By 1966, black leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown were proponents of what they termed:

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black power.

Question 30

In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty:

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generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans.

Question 31

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed:

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 32

When Alabama governor George Wallace was ordered by federal marshals to stand aside from the doorway at the University of Alabama so that black students could enter, Wallace:

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stood aside.

Question 33

In the 1964 election:

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Republicans continued to carry the Deep South.

Question 34

Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to:

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the elderly.

Question 35

Michael Harrington's book The Other America influenced President Johnson to declare war on:

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poverty.

Question 36

The Tonkin Gulf resolution:

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allowed Johnson to escalate the war.

Question 37

By 1967, public opposition to the war was especially strong among:

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college students.

Question 38

The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

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outlawed segregation in public facilities.

Question 39

In South Vietnam in the early 1960s:

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Kennedy was increasing the number of American military advisers.

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