Chapter 26&27 questions

Is non violent resistance an effective strategy ? Justify your answer .

nonviolent civil resistance is far more successful in creating broad-based change than violent campaigns are

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 focused on what primary issue

Outlawing discrimination in housing

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

Increased production that lowered prices Use of installment plans Mass-distribution of credit cards

What was the impact of television on American culture ?

It reshaped many cultures by stereotypes.

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

Milton Friedman

Why was Emmett Till murdered ?

Allegedly whistling at a white woman

What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis ?

Castro's invitation to the Soviet Union to install missiles Retaliation for the American nuclear arsenal housed in Turkey Hostile relations between the United States and Cuba

The 1968 Democratic National Convention included massive protests and violent reprisals by police . Where did this convention meet ?

Chicago

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

The National Indian Youth Council ( NIYC ) differed from the National Congress of American Indians ( NCAI ) because the NIYC

Employed direct action tactics and more combative rhetoric

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

Federal spending created more economic growth

Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique focused on what primary issue

Feelings of dissatisfaction with life as a housewife

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

Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience

How did U. S. business respond to the changing culture of the 1960s ?

Preexisting corporations were merging and becoming larger, more powerful conglomerates. Consumers increasingly were doing their shopping at discount chain stores and their dining at inexpensive fast-food restaurants, leading to a decrease in the number of single-proprietor businesses. Small farms, and a cherished American way of life, were becoming extinct. Larger, often corporate-owned, farms were replacing family farms, and newly developed farm technology was increasing farm output

How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color ?

Redlining neighborhoods that included Americans of color Claiming that Americans of color were at a greater risk of defaulting on FHA loans Creating self-fulfilling prophecies that racially integrated neighborhoods would have depreciating home values

Congressional opposition from which faction plagued Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration ?

Liberal Democrats Conservative Republicans

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

Ruled against segregated public schools Overturned the legal logic of Plessy v. Ferguson Extended the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment

What factors led many Americans to break free of that conformity ?

advertisers sold rebellion

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

economic individualism

What core issues were at stake in the emerging Women's Rights Movement ?

promote suffrage, better schools, the regulation of child labor, women in unions, and liquor prohibition.

What factors led to American abundance & the affluent society ?

rapid growth in manufacturing and growth in the demand for luxury goods

What factors encouraged the growth of suburbia ?

resulted from several historical forces, including the social legacy of the Depression, mass demobilization after the War (and the consequent "baby boom"), greater government involvement in housing and development, the mass marketing of the automobile, and a dramatic change in demographics.

Which group first promoted the idea that drug use could remedy feelings of alienation ?

scientists

What factors led to conformity during the 1950s ?

the fear of communism, the section races in public facilities, and the alteration of personal beliefs

President Johnson proposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 partially in response to what event in Selma , Alabama

"Bloody Sunday," the beating of peaceful marchers by police officers

What was the subject of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring ?

Environmental dangers of pesticides

Who organized the first sit - ins ?

students

Who first challenged segregation on buses ?

Sarah Keys

What groups experienced the increased fertility rates associated with the baby boom ?

Americans from all racial, social, and class lines

How did the first freedom ride end ?

Angry mobs composed of KKK members attacked the riders in Birmingham, Alabama and burned one of the buses and beat the activists who escaped

Advertisers in the 1960s innovated by beginning to emphasize which of the following traits as a means of selling products ?

Beauty and sexual attractiveness Rebellion and individuality Worldliness and intelligence

Which of the following right wing think tanks were created in the first decade following WWII ?

Foundation for Economic Education Mont Pelerin Society

What did Lyndon Johnson call his domestic program ?

Great Society

Discuss how the Civil Rights Movement evolved and split during the decade .

Some African Americans began to reject the calls for non-violent protests. These people wanted changes to occur much more quickly. They demanded action now, rather than the slower changes that usually came from peaceful demonstrations. The civil rights movement began to fracture between those who favored nonviolent means to achieve integration and younger, more radical leaders who wanted to fight for "black power."

The Albany Movement centered in Albany , Georgia , drew on Christian commitments to social justice and united all of the following Civil Rights groups

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Southern Christian Leadership Conference National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

In the mid - 1960s , the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) experienced a transformation . This transformation included all of the following

The growing influence of radical leaders like Stokely Carmichael The expulsion of all white members Focus on racial injustice in northern cities

Who were the " Brass Hats ? "

The leadership of the National Association of Manufacturers who created advertising campaigns supporting free enterprise.

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

beats

What core issues were at stake in the Cuban crises of the early 1960s ?

brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba

The cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was which program ?

community action

Discuss those factors that led to explosion of the youth culture in the 1960s

young people from middle-class or even working-class backgrounds became the first in their families to ever attend universities, and the contentious political climate of the Cold War and decolonization contributed to an explosion of discontent