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Multiple Choice Chapter 27 Self-Quiz 2
Schaller, 3e_MC 27.2
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As president, John F. Kennedy exuded all of the following, except
youth.
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confidence.
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fitness.
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passion for social justice.
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Why did Martin Luther King Jr. focus the attention of the SCLC on Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963?
The mayor of that city was a huge supporter of King.
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Birmingham had a military base were desegregated troops supported King.
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The town was a hotbed of racism.
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He was born in Birmingham.
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What ended the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962?
Castro backed down and asked the Soviets to remove the missiles.
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Kennedy backed down and removed battleships stationed between Florida and Cuba.
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The Soviets backed down and pledged to remove the missiles in return for a U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba.
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The failed landing of Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs turned attention away from the missiles.
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What was Lyndon B. Johnson's position on racial injustice?
He did not think it was a central issue.
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He felt overwhelmed by the civil rights movement.
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He had grown impatient with its slow progress.
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He thought that racial injustice victimized whites just as much.
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Why did Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis of SNCC organize a march to Birmingham in 1965?
to demand the desegregation of southern highways
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to support the striking garbage workers in that town
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to demand fair access to the right to vote
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to demand fair hiring policies in the town
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When did the United States end its national quota system for immigrants?
1924
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1942
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1958
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1965
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How did Juan Bosch respond to the marines landing in the Dominican Republic in 1965?
He thanked Lyndon B. Johnson for his support.
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He fled to Haiti where he sought exile.
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He returned from exile in Cuba to resume his presidency.
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He decried the suppression of a democratic revolution by the United States.
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From 1961 to 1969, the American economy
grew constantly.
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went through volatile ups and downs.
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started to slide into recession.
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remained mostly stagnant.
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Approximately how much had the western states received in defense spending during World War II?
$3 million
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$13 million
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$30 billion
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$3 billion
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The Rolling Stones picked their name from
a Beatles song.
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a song by Chicago blues artist Muddy Waters.
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an old British poem.
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a popular counterculture magazine in London.
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What triggered the Watts riots in Los Angeles in August 1965?
the beating of a black woman by a police officer
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the arrest of a young African American driver
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the shooting in the back of a black robbery suspect
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the exoneration of a white cop charged with murdering a black child
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How did other minority groups respond to the Black Power movement?
They resented it because it drew attention away from their cause.
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They joined Black Power organizations in large numbers.
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They developed their own versions of Black Power in the late 1960s.
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They could not understand why blacks stopped nonviolent resistance.
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The Equal Rights Amendment failed
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in the House of Representatives.
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because of Nixon's veto.
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because it did not receive approval of 38 state legislatures.
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What about the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) made it a leading organization of the New Left?
It had little interest in economic justice.
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It was sponsored by liberal corporations.
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It distanced itself from old-style union organizing.
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It rejected any form of public spectacle.
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Many of the pioneers of the information age of the 1980s and 90s were veterans of
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the Black Power movement.
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the Ku Klux Klan.
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the STOP ERA movement.
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