Hist 17.2 Chapter 25 quiz

The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan

Named the "problem with no name"

The Young Lords Organization in New York City represented

Puerto Ricans.

Freedom Riders were

Attacked by the local KKK

Which politician remarked, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"?

Barry Goldwater

Chicano farm workers found a powerful advocate in

Cesar Chavez

Lyndon Johnson remarked, "I think we delivered the South to the Republican Party" after

passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Who were the Redstockings?

A radical feminist group

At the outset of his presidency, John Kennedy regarded civil rights as his top priority.

False

Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964, authorizing the president to take "all necessary measures to repel armed attack" in Vietnam, by a very narrow margin.

False

John F. Kennedy was staunchly committed to racial equality and he placed it as his number one priority in his inaugural address.

False

The Freedom Summer refers to the summer of 1968 when the Democrats rallied around the campaign of Robert Kennedy.

False

The Immigration Reform Act did not alter the rate or national origin of immigration after 1965.

False

As Martin Luther King came to realize the difficulty of combating the economic plight of black America, King's language became more and more radical.

True

As a result of the Red Power movement, many more Americans began to identify themselves as Indians than before 1960.

True

The Port Huron Statement offered a new vision of social change while defining freedom to mean participatory democracy.

True

Unlike the New Deal, the Great Society was a response to prosperity, not depression.

True

What was not part of the Chicago freedom movement platform?

Voter registration of black citizens

The New Left

advocated for peace, civil rights, and economic equality.

The Chicago Freedom Movement launched by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966 fought for

an end to discrimination by employers and unions. equal access to mortgages. integration of public housing. construction of low-income housing. All of the above

The Kerner Report

blamed the urban riots on segregation and poverty

The Black Power movement

called for the election of more black officials. believed that African-Americans were a "colonized" people. helped to inspire the idea that "black is beautiful." called for a rejection of white norms. All of the above

In his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr.

discussed the litany of abuses faced by blacks in the South and the need for change.

To combat communism, one of John Kennedy's first acts was to

establish the Peace Corps.

The Hart-Celler Act of 1965

established new, racially neutral criteria for immigration.

Johnson's administration attributed poverty in America to all of the following except

flawed economic institutions.

At the 1968 Miss America beauty pageant, protesters threw into the "freedom trash can"

girdles. high-heeled shoes. brassiers. copies of Playboy. All of the above

Malcolm X

insisted that blacks have economic and political autonomy

Port Huron Statement

offered a new vision for social change based on participatory democracy.

In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which

prohibited both racial and sexual discrimination in employment and public institutions.

The sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960

reflected mounting frustration at the slow pace of racial change

In his 1968 election campaign Richard Nixon appealed to the

silent majority.

The civil rights movement inspired

the Red Power movement. the gay and lesbian movement. the antiwar movement. All of the above

Black Power emerged as a response to

the frustrations over the federal government's failure to stop violence against civil rights workers. white workers' attempts to determine the civil rights movement's strategy. the civil rights movement's failure to have any impact on the economic problems of black ghettos. the growing ideas of racial self-assertion and black self-determination. All of the above

Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" declared that

the white moderate had to put aside his fear of disorder and commit to racial justice.

In 1966 the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that

those in police custody had certain rights.

The Warren Court

was a conservative court

The Alliance for Progress

was a great success, bringing much-needed economic assistance to the people of Latin America. (was President Kennedy's marshall plan for latin america)

Gay Liberation Movement

was inspired by the civil rights movement

The Freedom Rides

were launched by CORE to test compliance with court orders banning segregation on interstate buses.