Multiple Choice Chapter 27 Self-Quiz 2

. As president, John F. Kennedy exuded all of the following, except

youth.

confidence.

fitness.

passion for social justice.

. 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.

Birmingham had a military base were desegregated troops supported King.

The town was a hotbed of racism.

He was born in Birmingham.

. What ended the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962?

Castro backed down and asked the Soviets to remove the missiles.

Kennedy backed down and removed battleships stationed between Florida and Cuba.

The Soviets backed down and pledged to remove the missiles in return for a U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba.

The failed landing of Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs turned attention away from the missiles.

. What was Lyndon B. Johnson's position on racial injustice?

He did not think it was a central issue.

He felt overwhelmed by the civil rights movement.

He had grown impatient with its slow progress.

He thought that racial injustice victimized whites just as much.

. 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

to support the striking garbage workers in that town

to demand fair access to the right to vote

to demand fair hiring policies in the town

. When did the United States end its national quota system for immigrants?

1924

1942

1958

1965

. How did Juan Bosch respond to the marines landing in the Dominican Republic in 1965?

He thanked Lyndon B. Johnson for his support.

He fled to Haiti where he sought exile.

He returned from exile in Cuba to resume his presidency.

He decried the suppression of a democratic revolution by the United States.

. From 1961 to 1969, the American economy

grew constantly.

went through volatile ups and downs.

started to slide into recession.

remained mostly stagnant.

. Approximately how much had the western states received in defense spending during World War II?

$3 million

$13 million

$30 billion

$3 billion

. The Rolling Stones picked their name from

a Beatles song.

a song by Chicago blues artist Muddy Waters.

an old British poem.

a popular counterculture magazine in London.

. What triggered the Watts riots in Los Angeles in August 1965?

the beating of a black woman by a police officer

the arrest of a young African American driver

the shooting in the back of a black robbery suspect

the exoneration of a white cop charged with murdering a black child

. How did other minority groups respond to the Black Power movement?

They resented it because it drew attention away from their cause.

They joined Black Power organizations in large numbers.

They developed their own versions of Black Power in the late 1960s.

They could not understand why blacks stopped nonviolent resistance.

. The Equal Rights Amendment failed

in the Senate.

in the House of Representatives.

because of Nixon's veto.

because it did not receive approval of 38 state legislatures.

. 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.

It was sponsored by liberal corporations.

It distanced itself from old-style union organizing.

It rejected any form of public spectacle.

. Many of the pioneers of the information age of the 1980s and 90s were veterans of

the counterculture.

the Black Power movement.

the Ku Klux Klan.

the STOP ERA movement.

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