Chapter 26 Mastery Exercise

How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color?

All of the answers are correct.

What was the name of the 1950s counterculture that rejected the values of conformity and domesticity?

Beats

Who first challenged segregation on buses?

Sarah Keys

Which agency investigates sexual discrimination in the workplace and enforces the Title VII stipulations?

EEOC

In 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had traveled to assist in organizing:

a strike involving black sanitation workers.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for this crime of assassinating President John F. Kennedy in Dallas but he was shot and killed by this angry citizen while being transported from the police station to the jail.

Jack Ruby

In 1958, this Harvard economist and public intellectual published The Affluent Society.

John Kenneth Galbraith

What is the name of the prototypical suburban community built in 1946 in Long Island, New York? The developer purchased large acreage, subdividing lots, and contracting crews to build countless homes at economies of scale,

Levittown

What is the name of the University of Chicago economist who helped to develop the intellectual position of libertarian economics?

Milton Friedman

This case expanded the rights of the accused by mandating that they must be informed of their rights upon arrest.

Miranda v. Arizona

Who was a conservative detractor that felt the Equal Rights Amendment threatened traditional gender roles and values?

Phyllis Schlafly

These types of jobs such as nursing, teaching, and secretarial work ensured that women remained in the workforce, although not in such great numbers as during World War II.

Pink Collar Jobs

What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?

All of the answers are correct.

Which of the following enabled the rising purchase of consumer goods?

All of the answers are correct.

Which of the programs introduced in the LBJ presidency still exist today:

All of these programs still exist today.

Why was Emmett Till murdered?

Allegedly whistling at a white woman

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision declaring the doctrine of "separate but equal" constitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 accomplish?

Created a Civil Rights Commission in the Department of Justice to investigate claims of racial discrimination

This case ruled that states must provide attorneys at state expense for accused persons unable to procure their own legal defense.

Gideon v. Wainwright

Who was a vocal supporter of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (1972) that sought to provide equality to American women?

Gloria Steinem

Dwight Eisenhower accomplished which of the following:

All of the answers are correct.

In 1963, she published The Feminine Mystique, which by 1970 had sold one million copies. Her work expressed an unspoken disillusionment felt by many American women trapped in the "comfortable concentration camp" of their domestic existences.

Betty Friedan

All of the following television shows brought not only the nation's favorite shows which celebrated traditional American values to national audiences, but also introduced advertising for the many new products manufactured en masse during the 1950s, EXCEPT:

Charlie's Angels

This case ruled that it was illegal for the states to require official school prayers to be recited by the students.

Engel v. Vitale

What was the relationship between the federal government and economic growth in the aftermath of World War II?

Federal spending created more economic growth

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted from December 1955 until December 20, 1956, when the Supreme Court ordered their integration. The boycott not only crushed segregation in Montgomery's public transportation, it energized the entire civil rights movement and established the leadership of the MIA's president, a recently arrived, twenty-six-year-old Baptist minister named:

Martin Luther King Jr.

Her book Silent Spring warned readers, "We should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals. We should look about and see what other course is open to us."

Rachel Carson

In many of the South's districts, especially rural ones, blacks were effectively disenfranchised by poll taxes, literacy tests, and physical intimidation put in place by the white majority. In response, this group organized voting efforts in Mississippi, notable for its relatively large black community and scant number of black voters.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

President Truman saw an expansion of Social Security benefits, a higher minimum wage, and urban development aimed at eliminating slums in a plan called:

The Fair Deal

President Lyndon Johnson's vision for America extended past the initiatives left behind by Kennedy. He introduced the idea of:

The Great Society

In 1952, this NAACP lawyer argued on behalf of Linda Brown, a black girl barred from attending the all-white elementary school in her neighborhood in Topeka, Kansas.

Thurgood Marshall

The Voting Rights Act of 1965:

gave total control of all elections to the federal government, that blacks were given freedom to fully exercise their voting rights.

The 24th Amendment:

outlawed poll taxes.

After President Truman banned racial discrimination in the military and in federal hiring practices and eliminated government contracts with companies known for their discriminatory policies, outraged Southern Democrats led a break-away faction headed by South Carolina Governor J. Strom Thurmond known as the:

Dixiecrats

In his own words, this president described himself as, "conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The churches most common in suburban America tended most frequently celebrated which of the following cultural values?

Economic individualism

Which of the following best describes the marketing techniques of early television executives?

Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience

This event in Arkansas exemplified the worst kind of response to integration attempts in the South, in which many whites felt threatened by what they perceived as a sudden and unnecessary change in the law and acted out in hatred and ignorance in response.

Little Rock Nine

Why was the landmark election of 1960 the first of its kind?

Never before had the media played such a prominent role in politics.

In this landmark case, the court decided that a woman and her doctor, not the state, possessed the right to decide the fate of a pregnancy.

Roe v. Wade