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The Sixties Briggeman

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Question 1

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What does the quote "ask not what your country can do but what you can do for your country mean"? Does this quote still have relevance today?

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Question 3

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Which factor links all of these modern innovations?

A They are all products initially created for use in the U.S. communications industry.

B They each include material that was first grown on U.S. experimental farms in the late nineteenth century.

C They each include technology that was originally developed for use in the U.S. space exploration program.

D They are all special tools first created for U.S. transportation workers in the early twentieth century.

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Question 4

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Summarize the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

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Question 5

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What was President John F. Kennedy's response to Soviet plans to install nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962?

A He attacked the missle silos with strategic air strikes. 

B He had the army sieze control of of Cuba. 

C He placed a blockade around Cuba and threatened war. 

D He negotiated an agreement with Fidel Castro. 

Question 6

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Which U.S. action is Khrushchev challenging in this excerpt?

Preventing Soviet advisors from meeting with revolutionaries in South America

Establishing a naval blockade to stop the shipment of missiles to Cuba

Enforcing a ban on military aid to communist forces in North Vietnam

Conducting air shipments of vital supplies to East Berlin

Question 7

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Which Soviet action led to the threat illustrated on this map?

A The signing of an arms limitations treaty

B Blockading foreign supply ships from entering the Caribbean

C Closing the border between East and West Berlin

D The placement of nuclear weapons installations in Cuba

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Question 8

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What constitutional issue was raised by President Johnson's Great Society?

A Should taxes be raised to stimulate consumer spending? 

B What foriegn imports should be allowed into the United States? 

C How far can the federal government extend itself in helping  the less fortunate? 

D Should certain key industries be taken  over by the federal government? 

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Question 11

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Which law helped women athletes obtain greater support in American high schools and universities?

A Civil Rights Act of 1964

B Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act

C Twenty-sixth Amendment

D Voting Rights Act of 1964

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Question 14

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What was the impact of the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.?

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What is the significance of this 1978 mural?

A It is representative of artistic expressions of the Beat Generation.

B It was commissioned by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

C It is an example of cultural pride among Mexican Americans.

D It was painted by artists employed under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

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Question 21

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Define the term SNCC

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Question 22

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How was Malcom X different than Martin Luther King, Jr.? What group was he a member of?

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Question 23

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Who was Dolores Huerta?

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Question 2

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What has been an effect of space technology and exploration on the people of the United States?

A It has forced them to find alternative sources of fuel. 

B It led to advances in quality of life for most Americans.

C It focused attention on the need to deregulate the uses of outer space.

D It reduced tensions in the space race as a from of Cold War competition. 

Question 9

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Which book played a role in changing attitudes about traditional gender roles in American society?

A Common Sense

B How the Other Half Lives

C The Feminine Mystique

D The Jungle 

Question 10

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What contribution did Betty Friedan make to the movement for women's rights?

A She campaigned for women's suffrage. 

B She championed the rights of poor women.

C She demanded greater career opportunities for middle class women. 

D She agitated for the rights of African-American women. 

Question 12

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How did the methods advocated by the Black Panther to achieve their goals differ from those of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

A They formed a third political party.

B They were passionately communist.

C They restricted their actions to the use of passive resistance. 

D They considered the use of violence to protect their own communities. 

Question 13

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How did the approach of the Black Panthers differ from the methods used by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr?

A Black Panthers were willing to use violence; while Dr. King used only nonviolence. 

B Black Panthers believed in nonviolence, while Dr. King favored civil disobedience. 

C Black Panthers sought to use the court system, while Dr. King preferred passive resistance.

D Black Panthers employed peaceful demonstrations, while Dr. King favored sit-ins and freedom rides. 

Question 15

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During the 1940's and 1950's, the primary goal of Mexican-American litigation was to-

A eliminate the legal segregation of Mexican Americans

B form a new nation for Mexican Americans

C create seperate Mexican-American economic and social institutions

D establish affirmative action programs to compensate for past wrongs 

Question 16

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The movements led by Dr. Martine Luther King Jr. and Ceasar Chavez were similar in that both-

A supported attempts to overthrow the establised government

B used civil disobedience to bring about social change 

C boycotted agricultural crops

D were elected to national political office

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What has been an impact of the Chicano Mural Movement on American society?

A It has raised fears of increased bias against Mexican Americans. 

B It brought about alarm of another culture influencing the United States.

C It led people to a heightened appreciation of Mexican-American culture. 

D It expanded the constitutional rights of most Mexican Americans. 

Question 19

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What was a major goal of the American Indian Movement (AIM)?

A to gain citizenship and representation in Congress

B to relocate American Indians to urban areas

C to obtain greater understanding  of the American-Indian point of view

D to end segregation of American Indians in public places

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What was the main objective of the American Indian Movement's occupation of Alcatraz Island and Wounded Knee?

A to draw attention to their conditions

B to obtain the right to vote

C to reclaim lost lands

D to protest the Vietnam war

Question 24

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The court decision in Delgado v. Bastrop ISD and Hernandez v. Texas held that-

A racially segregated schools are inherently unequal

B a student has no gauranteed rights while in a public school

C a student's right to privacy is limited under certian conditions

D Mexican Americans were entitled to protection from discrimmination under the Fourteenth Amendment 

Question 25

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As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hernandez v. Texas (1954), a Mexican American could not be-

A stopped from voting in a Presidential election

B made to pay an unreasonable bail to be released from jail

C denied an education in an all white school

D tried by a jury from which Mexican Americans had been systematically excluded