The Turbulent Sixties Quiz Chp 29

The counter-culture of the 1960s promoted all of the following EXCEPT?

A new emphasis on religion

The Stonewall riots helped forge a new sense of solidarity among?:

Gay Americans

The National Organization for Women was created?

as a civil rights organization for women, working against sex discrimination in employment.

Sources of discomfort among youth during the decade of the 1960s included all of the following EXCEPT?:

failure of the Johnson administration to face the social and economic problems of the underclass

Which statement concerning African-Americans' movement for civil rights in the 1960s is accurate?:

its leaders failed to use the U.S. Congress as a means of achieving goals

The Commission on Civil Disorders issued a report in 1968 that recommended?:

massive spending to improve conditions in the ghettos.

In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court declared that?:

police had to advise a suspect of his or her constitutional right to remain silent.

All of the following contributed to a "sexual revolution" during the 1960s EXCEPT?:

the elimination of all state laws infringing on a woman's right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy.

Which of the following is most consistent with the belief expressed by Stokely Carmichael in his 1966 call for "Black Power"?

to be truly free from white oppression, blacks must control their own economic, political, and social institutions.

We are the people of this generation, bred in at least moderate comfort,housed in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.This statement?:

was the manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society