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=The Civil Rights Movement, 1950–1968= Results of the quiz. 1. Which of the following was a political party that directly confronted authorities and called on African Americans to lead their own communities? 2. Freedom Rides were organized to protest segregation in 3. Sit-ins were often successful because they 4. Malcolm X believed that African Americans should 5. After seeing the violence committed against civil rights protesters, President Kennedy 6. One of the factors that led to the civil rights movement was the growth of African American communities in 7. Which of the following took place in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in August of 1965? 8. James Meredith advanced the cause of civil rights when he 9. Violent treatment of civil rights marchers by the police in Birmingham, Alabama,. 10. Rosa Parks' defiant actions directly inspired the 11. Which two leading political figures were assassinated in 1968? 12. In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled against discrimination in 13. What happened after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965? 14. One of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was 15. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolent protest was influenced by the ideas of 16. In the struggle for civil rights, the NAACP focused on working through 17. After the Montgomery bus boycott, the Supreme Court ruled that 18. Which of the following civil rights organizations was founded exclusively for students? 19. President Johnson strongly supported passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to honor the memory of. 20. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at a rally in which of the following cities?
 * CORRECT : the Black Panthers
 * . CORRECT : southern bus stations.
 * . CORRECT : forced owners to risk disruption of their businesses.
 * CORRECT : reject white society and build a separate culture.
 * INCORRECT : refused to introduce a new civil rights bill.
 * CORRECT : became a strong supporter of civil rights.
 * . CORRECT : northern cities.
 * CORRECT : a deadly race riot
 * INCORRECT : was elected to Congress.
 * CORRECT : enrolled in the University of Mississippi.
 * CORRECT : angered most Americans.
 * CORRECT : Montgomery bus boycott.
 * CORRECT : Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * CORRECT : public schools.
 * INCORRECT : President Johnson vetoed the Act.
 * CORRECT : African Americans began playing a larger role in politics.
 * CORRECT : Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * CORRECT : Mohandas K. Gandhi.
 * INCORRECT : peaceful protest marches.
 * CORRECT : the court system.
 * CORRECT : segregated buses were unconstitutional.
 * CORRECT : SNCC
 * CORRECT : President John F. Kennedy.
 * CORRECT : Washington, D.C.



=Self-Test= =The Vietnam War, 1954–1975= Results of the quiz. 1. Conscientious objectors opposed the Vietnam War because of. 2. College students in the early 1960s could receive a deferment, which was 3. After World War II, President Truman pledged American aid to any nation threatened by 4. American soldiers in Vietnam had to deal with 5. The Vietnam War ended when. 6. As Nixon began to withdraw American troops from Vietnam, he also 7. In what became known as the My Lai massacre, 9. "Hawks" and "doves" were 10. As a result of the Tet Offensive, a majority of the American public began to 11. What happened to the citizens of Cambodia after the Vietnam war ended? 12. At both Kent State University in Ohio and Jackson State College in Mississippi, 13. In fighting the North Vietnamese, the American military used 14. The domino theory stated that 15. Who were "the silent majority?" 16. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave President Johnson the power to 17. Why was the Ho Chi Minh Trail important? 18. In 1954, Ho Chi Minh became the 19. President Kennedy's goal in Vietnam was to 20. What role did student activists play in the antiwar effort?
 * CORRECT : religious or moral beliefs.
 * CORRECT : an official postponement of military duty.
 * CORRECT : Communists.
 * CORRECT : diseases and surprise attacks.
 * CORRECT : North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam.
 * CORRECT : expanded the war into Cambodia.
 * CORRECT : American troops opened fire on unarmed Vietnamese villagers.
 * CORRECT : people who supported the war and people who opposed it.
 * INCORRECT : support the Vietnam War.
 * CORRECT : oppose the Vietnam War.
 * CORRECT : One quarter of them were killed by the fanatically Communist Khmer Rouge.
 * CORRECT : students were killed in anti-war demonstrations.
 * CORRECT : bombs and chemical weapons.
 * CORRECT : if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would soon follow.
 * CORRECT : a group of more conservative Americans to whom Nixon appealed
 * CORRECT : deepen American involvement in Vietnam.
 * CORRECT : It was a critical supply route for the North Vietnamese.
 * INCORRECT : pro-American leader of South Vietnam.
 * CORRECT : pro-Communist leader of North Vietnam.
 * INCORRECT : help North Vietnam win the war.
 * CORRECT : prevent the Communists from defeating South Vietnam.
 * CORRECT : They helped lead the protest movement.

You got 17 out of 20 correct.

=Self-Test= =The Kennedy and Johnson Years, 1961–1969= Results of the quiz. 1. What role did Sputnik play in the American space effort?. 2. Kennedy's New Frontier included efforts to 3. Television was a major factor in the election of 1960 because during the campaign 4. Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall? 5. During the 1960s, the Supreme Court made several decisions that 6. Who was Earl Warren? 7. Kennedy established the Peace Corps to 9. The Miranda rule, established by the Supreme Court's decision in Miranda v. Arizona, established that 10. Medicare and Medicaid were programs designed to help people afford 11. The Warren Commission determined that the Kennedy assassination was 12. Why was Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba of concern to the United States? 13. President Kennedy was shot while campaigning in which of the following cities? 14. The Cuban Missile Crisis ended when 15. Johnson called his plan for improving the nation the 16. The Head Start program for preschool children from low-income families was created by 17. The goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to 18. In 1962, which of the following astronauts became the first U.S. citizen to orbit the earth? 19. As a member of Congress, Lyndon Johnson was known for his 20. Kennedy reacted to the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba by
 * CORRECT : It was the first Soviet satellite and sparked fierce competition from the U.S.
 * CORRECT : improve the space program.
 * CORRECT : the candidates faced each other in the nation's first televised debates.
 * CORRECT : to stop people from escaping from East Germany
 * CORRECT : protected the rights of people accused of crimes.
 * CORRECT : the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969
 * CORRECT : police inform accused persons of their rights.
 * CORRECT : health care.
 * INCORRECT : due to poor security.
 * CORRECT : the act of a single man.
 * CORRECT : Castro aligned himself politically with the Soviet Union.
 * CORRECT : Dallas, Texas
 * CORRECT : the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba.
 * CORRECT : Great Society.
 * CORRECT : Johnson's Economic Opportunity Act.
 * CORRECT : force Fidel Castro from power.
 * CORRECT : John Glenn
 * CORRECT : great skill as a legislator.
 * CORRECT : setting up a naval quarantine around Cuba.