MAAP Review Questions Civil Rights, Modern America II and III

This paragraph summarizes some of President George H. W. Bush's foreign policy experience.

When George H. W. Bush became president, he had one of the most impressive foreign policy resumes of any individual ever elected president. He had previously served as director of the US liaison office to the People's Republic of China, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), US ambassador to the United Nations, and Vice President of the United States. Some considered his greatest foreign policy strengths to be his significant foreign policy experience, his calm and pragmatic nature, and his ability to work well with other world leaders.

How did US involvement in the 1991 Persian Gulf War reflect President Bush's foreign policy strengths as described in the paragraph?

• He assembled an international coalition that led the liberation of Iraq.

• He assembled an international coalition that led the liberation of Kuwait.

• He decided to remain neutral and only supply Kuwait with weapons and training.

• He tried to prevent other countries from attempting diplomacy before invading Iraq.

What effect did Reaganomics have on the US economy during the 1980s?

• This supply-side economic policy caused a decrease in the national debt and domestic spending.

• The tax-and-spend economic policy caused an increase in corporate taxes and domestic spending.

• This trickle-down economic policy caused a decrease in inflation and an increase in the national debt.

• This laissez-faire economic policy caused a decrease in the national debt and an increase in inflation rates.

This excerpt comes from President George H. W. Bush's January 29, 1991, State of the Union address.

For two centuries, America has served the world as an inspiring example of freedom and democracy. For generations, America has led the struggle to preserve and extend the blessings of liberty. And today, in a rapidly changing world, American leadership is indispensable. Americans know leadership brings burdens and sacrifice.

Based on the excerpt and your own knowledge, why did the United States choose to enter the Persian Gulf War in 1991?

• to stop the spread of communism throughout the Middle East

• to create humanitarian programs that would improve living conditions

• to form alliances with European nations to increase the world's oil supply

• to liberate a sovereign nation from a neighboring country's military aggression

This excerpt comes from an official government document issued in 1948.

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.

From which document does this excerpt come?

• majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson

• majority opinion in Brown v. Board of Education

• President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9981

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066

This list shows African American voter registration rates by percentage for elections held in some southern states in 1965 and 1988.

*Alabama- March 1965 19.3%; November 1988 68.4%

*Georgia- March 1965 27.4%; November 1988 56.8%

*Louisiana- March 1965 31.6%; November 1988 77.1%

Mississippi- March 1965 6.7%; November 1988 74.2%

*North Carolina- March 1965 46.8%; November 1988 58.2%

*South Carolina- March 1965 37.3%; November 1988 56.6%

*Virginia- March 1965 38.3%; November 1988 63.8%

The change in African American voter registration rates between 1965 and 1988 was prompted by

• executive orders issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt

• civil rights legislation signed by Lyndon B. Johnson

• anti-war sentiment during Richard M. Nixon's administration

• judicial decisions during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration

This map shows the route of an event that occurred in Alabama in 1965.

Which piece of legislation was passed, in part, as a result of the event represented on the map?

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Social Security Act of 1965

• Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

• Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965

These events occurred during the Civil Rights Movement.

*1955-Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama

*1960-African Americans staged a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina

*1965-Martin Luther King, Jr. led a march from Selma, Alabama

How did these events influence tactics used by other minority groups?

• They revealed the effectiveness of economic boycotts.

• They revealed the effectiveness of continued harassment.

• They demonstrated the effectiveness of voter registration.

• They demonstrated the effectiveness of civil disobedience.

Why did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) direct many of its efforts toward registering voters in the South?

• SNCC understood that it needed to register voters to obtain equal pay for women.

• SNCC knew that registered voters were needed to increase its political power and effect change.

• SNCC hoped to encourage voters to support the Republican Party so that federal power would be limited.

• SNCC wanted to pass the Twenty-Sixth Amendment so that younger people could vote and change society for the better.

Which Civil Rights group, from its earliest days, used any means necessary to protect itself in effort to achieve racial equality?

• Black Panther Party (BBP)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

How did the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, affect women?

• Women gained more authority in the workplace because this legislation required employers to promote women at the same pace as men.

• Women achieving the right to pursue legal action to receive the same compensation as men for the same work gave women more economic power.

• Women achieved economic parity with men because this legislation allowed employers to decrease men's salaries to be the same as women's salaries.

• Women gaining the right to pursue legal action to receive the same compensation as men regardless of merit or seniority gave women more influence in the workplace.