US History CH 14/15

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major league baseball?

a. Jackie Robinson
b. Ralph Abernathy
c. Thurgood Marshall
d. Rosa Parks
____ 2. What was the significance of Hernandez v. Texas?

a. It affirmed the doctrine of “separate but equal.”

b. It organized national “White Citizens Councils.”
c. It overturned Brown II.
d. It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans.
____ 3. How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?

a. 24 hours
b. one week
c. more than a year
d. more than five years
____ 4. In return for the desegregation of interstate transportation,

a. the Johnson administration agreed to arrest Mississippi activists.

b. the Kennedy administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists.
c. the Kennedy administration agreed to arrest Mississippi activists.
d. the Johnson administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists.
____ 5. Why did Martin Luther King target Birmingham, Alabama for a civil rights campaign?

a. because of its strong support for civil rights

b. because it was considered the most segregated city in the South
c. because President Kennedy had been born there
d. because it was the only southern city that practiced segregation

Use the following excerpt from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to answer the question.

“(2) No person acting under [the] law shall —”“. . . (B) deny the right of any individual to vote in
any Federal election because of an error or omission on any record or paper relating to . . . voting,
if such error or omission is not material in determining whether such individual is qualified . . . to
vote. . . .”“. . . (C) employ any literacy test as a qualification for voting in any Federal
election . . .”“. . . SEC. 703. (a) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer
—”“(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual . . . because of such individual’s
race, color, religion, sex, or national origin . . .”

____ 6. In the excerpt above, what two specific activities are protected from discrimination?
 a. voting and housing
b. employment and housing
c. housing and employment
d. voting and employment
____ 7. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

a. President Kennedy
b. President Johnson
c. President Nixon
d. President Eisenhower
____ 8. When three civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer, the SNCC claimed that
they had been

a. arrested.
b. murdered.
c. kidnapped.
d. relocated.
____ 9. While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to

a. the Nation of Islam.

b. the Black Panthers.
c. the SNCC.
d. CORE.
____ 10. What civil rights measure was passed by Congress shortly after King’s assassination?

a. the Fair Housing Act

b. the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
c. the Kerner Commission
d. the Voting Rights Act of 1965
____ 11. The Alliance for Progress provided what kind of assistance to Latin American countries?

a. Educational
b. Medical
c. military
d. economic
____ 12. As the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev

a. became a more powerful leader.

b. won many American supporters.
c. developed radical new policies.
d. declined in national politics.
____ 13. As a result of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,

a. the Soviet Union ended all nuclear testing.

b. nearly forty countries ended aboveground nuclear tests.
 c. relations between the United States and the Soviet Union worsened.
d. the United States and the Soviet Union ceased to communicate.
____ 14. What did President Kennedy’s domestic agenda primarily fight?

a. unemployment
b. communism
c. Republicans
d. poverty
____ 15. Which of these was a result of the Equal Pay Act?

a. Employment practices became fairer.

b. Men and women immediately began receiving identical pay.
c. African Americans had more job opportunities.
d. Businesses set standard wages.
____ 16. The Warren Commission concluded that

a. a foreign power had called for Kennedy’s assassination.

b. too little evidence existed to close the case.
c. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Kennedy’s assassination.
d. several people conspired to murder Kennedy.

Read the text below, and then answer the questions.

Our prosperity rests on the basic [beliefs] that the work of free individuals makes a nation—and it
is the job of Government to help them do the best they can . . . that our greatest resource is the
health and skills and knowledge of our people . . . that older Americans . . . are entitled to live out
their lives in dignity . . . that individual farmers and individual workers have a right to some
protection against those forces which might deprive them of a decent income from the fruits of
their labor.

____ 17. According to Johnson, the primary role of government is to

a. protect older Americans.

b. provide a decent income.
c. support individual effort.
d. conserve resources.
____ 18. Which of the following does Johnson say relies on the beliefs he lists?

a. dignity
b. prosperity
c. knowledge
d. freedom
____ 19. From his time in Congress, Johnson was known for his skills in

a. compromise.
b. debate.
c. legislation.
 d. foreign relations.
____ 20. Why was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 necessary?

a. The legislation setting immigration policy had expired.

b. Too many immigrants were coming to the United States each year.
c. Existing American immigration policies were discriminatory.
d. The United States did not have enough workers to support industry.

Matching

Directions: Choose the person or term that best fits each description. You will not use all of the
answers.

a. Freedom Summer g. Kerner Commission

b. Thurgood Marshall h. Malcolm X
c. Brown v. Board of Education i. black power
d. Martin Luther King j. Montgomery bus boycott
e. de jure segregation k. freedom ride
f. Voting Rights Act of 1965 l. James Meredith
_G___ 21. attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots
__I__ 22. term coined by SNCC leader Stokley Carmichael
__D__ 23. best-known African American radical activist
__E__ 24. racial separation imposed by law
_A___ 25. a massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi
_K___ 26. bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes
__F__ 27. banned literacy tests for voter registration
__L__ 28. helped NAACP win desegregation case against “Ole Miss”
_C__ 29. case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
__B__ 30. African American attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation

Directions: Match the descriptions with the terms. Write the letter of the correct answer in the
blank provided.

a. Great Society g. Fidel Castro

b. deficit spending h. Civil Rights Act
c. Richard M. Nixon i. Warren Commission
d. flexible response j. Berlin Wall
e. Equal Pay Act k. Medicaid
f. Lyndon Johnson l. New Frontier
__J__ 31. physical manifestation of Germany’s political division
__D__ 32. military strategy relying on both traditional and specialized units
__G__ 33. revolutionary leader who instituted a communist regime in Cuba
__L__ 34. President Kennedy’s vision for America
_K___ 35. program to provide basic health care to poor and disabled Americans
__A__ 36. President Johnson’s social welfare plan
__I__ 37. group that investigated Kennedy’s assassination
__H__ 38. legislation that banned discrimination based on race or sex
__E__ 39. strategy used by President Kennedy to improve the economy
__C__ 40. John F. Kennedy’s opponent in 1960

Short Answer

Directions: Use the excerpts from the Fair Housing Act of 1968 to answer the question that
follows on the back of this page or a separate sheet of paper.

“. . . it shall be unlawful—”“(a) to refuse to sell or rent. . . . a dwelling to any person because of

race, color, religion, sex, [type of family], or national origin.”“(b) to discriminate against any
person in the terms [or] conditions . . . of sale or rental of a dwelling . . . because of race, color,
religion, sex, [type of family], or national origin.”“(c) to make, print, or publish . . . any notice,
statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicated any
preference . . . based on race, color, religion, sex, . . . [type of family], or national origin.”

41. Analyze Primary Sources Explain how this section of the Fair Housing Act deals with
discrimination.

Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.

42. Analyze Cause and Effect How did the Cuban missile crisis lead to increased
communication between the United