Final Exam- HIS 132 (CH.24)

In 1955, what percentage of nonagricultural workers was unionized?

35 percent

The name for the small group of poets and writers, including Allen Ginsberg, who railed against mainstream culture, was

Beats

Which of the following was NOT a philosophic feature of Martin Luther King Jr.?

Black Americans must not try for full racial equality too quickly; before they achieve that, they must first prove their worthiness to all America.

What was the landmark United States Supreme Court case decided on May 17, 1954, in which the Warren Court unanimously asserted that segregation in public education violated the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment?

Brown v. Board of Education

What did President Eisenhower call his domestic agenda, which embraced a "mixed economy," in which the government played a major role in planning economic activity, and by which Eisenhower consolidated and legitimized the New Deal?

Modern Republicanism

What was the coalition of black ministers and civil rights activists that pressed for desegregation and was formed in 1955, and in whose organizing Martin Luther King Jr. took the lead?

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Which of the following was NOT a key cause of the economic prosperity of the 1950s?

large income tax reductions

With the wave of decolonization that began in 1947 with the independence of India and creation of Pakistan, and by which, in the decades following World War II, Europe's centuries-old empires collapsed, the newly created Third World nations

resisted alignment with either major power bloc.

The National Defense Education Act, which offered direct federal funding for higher education for the first time, was passed into law by Congress in 1957 in response to

the Soviet launch of the first artificial earth satellite, Sputnik.

During the 1950s, the mass movement for civil rights found principal support among

the southern black church.