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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism (1947-1969)

Multiple Choice


1	The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision:
		A)	was the result of a boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr.
		B)	upheld Plessy v. Ferguson but provided for an enforcement mechanism.
		C)	was quickly accepted by most white Southerners.
		D)	was a unanimous one by the court.


2	Rosa Parks made national headlines in 1955 by:
		A)	enrolling as the first African-American in a previously all-white public school in Little Rock.
		B)	being the first African-American cabinet member.
		C)	refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.
		D)	arguing the NAACP's position in the Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the Supreme Court.


3	The Supreme Court's 1954 Hernandez v. Texas decision:
		A)	ended legal segregation of whites and Latinos.
		B)	ended legal segregation of whites and blacks.
		C)	held Latinos to be a discrete group deserving equal protection against discrimination.
		D)	opened the University of Texas' law school to all qualified applicants.


4	Growing out of the Greensboro sit-in of 1960 was a new civil rights organization representing a somewhat more militant, younger generation of black activists, the:
		A)	NAACP.
		B)	SCLC.
		C)	CORE.
		D)	SNCC.


5	The Civil Rights Act of 1964:
		A)	barred discrimination in all public accommodations and forbid employers from discriminating on the basis of race.
		B)	outlawed the literacy test and poll tax.
		C)	made it illegal to discriminate in selling or renting homes.
		D)	provided billions of dollars to predominantly minority communities in order to redress old injustices.


6	Michael Harrington's book, The Other America, dealt primarily with the issue of:
		A)	race.
		B)	illegal immigration.
		C)	the counterculture.
		D)	poverty.


7	Most liberals in the 1960s sought to:
		A)	overturn capitalism.
		B)	defend the status quo.
		C)	use the government to improve society.
		D)	break sharply with the Progressives and New Dealers of earlier eras.


8	The Supreme Court's decision in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) was related to a number of decisions the Warren Court made in regard to:
		A)	protecting the rights of citizens accused of a crime.
		B)	removing restrictions on the sale of contraceptives.
		C)	strengthening the separation of church and state by banning organized prayer in public schools.
		D)	drawing legislative and congressional districts on the principle of "one person, one vote."


9	Johnson's Great Society included all of the following EXCEPT:
		A)	federal aid to public schools.
		B)	Medicare and Medicaid.
		C)	tougher laws to fight pollution.
		D)	abortion rights legislation.


10	The Immigration Act of 1965:
		A)	sharply reduced the number of legal immigrants.
		B)	set up a quota system based on national origins.
		C)	eliminated racial provisions restricting Asian immigration.
		D)	served primarily to benefit northern Europeans.


11	The Free Speech Movement was most directly related to:
		A)	the growth of the hippie counterculture.
		B)	discontent among university students with bureaucratic society.
		C)	growing opposition to the Vietnam War.
		D)	opposition to government censorship of rock-and-roll lyrics.


12	Although hippies could be found throughout the U.S. in the late 1960s, the unofficial countercultural capital during those years was:
		A)	Los Angeles.
		B)	San Francisco.
		C)	Boston.
		D)	Woodstock.

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