Test #11: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Modern US

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The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was to?

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end segregation based on race

Front

In the 1960s, bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, and freedom rides were organized attempts to achieve:

• integration
• black separatism
• segregation
• cultural diffusion

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integration

Front

Which statement closely reflects the views of Martin Luther King Jr.?
Options:
- all Americans have a right to equality and any means, including violence, can be used to attain it
- unjust laws must be disobeyed and the consequences accepted peacefully
- African Americans will never gain equality, we have no choice but to have the two races separate
- African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement, social and political equality later

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unjust laws must be disobeyed and the consequences accepted peacefully

Front

How did Martin Luther King Jr. first emerge as a leader of the civil rights movement?

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led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

Front

The main reason the Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed the literacy test as a voting qualification was that

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different standards of literacy had been applied to different groups of voters

Front

An analysis of the civil rights leadership of Dr. King, Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X would show that each

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chose a different method to try

Front

A major goal of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program was to

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end poverty in the United States

Front

In 1965, Congress established Medicare to

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provide healthcare for the elderly

Front

President Lyndon Johnson’s use of United States forces to fight in the Vietnam War was an action that

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raised the issue of the limits of the President’s power to make war

Front

What was one domestic result of the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War?

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greater public distrust of government policies