College History Final Review Questions

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

Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience

What did Lyndon Johnson call his domestic program?

Great Society

What was the primary guiding principle of Carter's foreign policy during his early years in office?

Human rights

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 All of the above

_________________, an NAACP leader in Mississippi, was assassinated in the summer of 1963.

Medgar Evans

The National Indian Youth Council (NIYC)

employed militant rhetoric and advocated direct action.

Which of the following resulted from American commitments to free trade?

The relocation of American manufacturing overseas

The Kerner Commission explained urban riots as the result of which of the following

Black frustration with the hopelessness of urban poverty

_____________________'s songs "Times They are a Changin" and "Only a Pawn in their Game" highlighted the role folk music played in the culture of protest in then 1960s.

Bob Dylan

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

By 1968, ______________ American troops were stationed in Vietnam, and nearly ____________ had been killed.

500,000; 20;000

What was the "Nixon Doctrine?"

A military policy of détente

All of the following led to the economic development of the Sun Belt EXCEPT

A resurgence in southern agriculture

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

Counterculture

The ______________ were the confidential and guilt impugning documents that the Nixon administration tried to keep from the public.

Administrative Files

Why was Emmet Till murdered?

Allegedly whistling at a white woman

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

The Stonewall incident that catalyzed the gay rights movement occurred when __________

Bar patrons in New York City protested a police raid

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

Beats

What was the primary political issue that Carter used in his presidential campaign?

Carter's Campaign focused less on issues than his background as a hardworking honest southern baptist southerner

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 All of the above

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

Chicago

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

Community Action

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

Economic individualism

Medicare provides health insurance primary for the ___________, while Medicaid primarily provides healthcare for the ______________.

Elderly, Poor

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

Environmental dangers of pesticides

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

Foundation for Economic Education Mont Pelerin Society Both of these

What was the most provable part of Nixon's role in Watergate?

He ordered the act

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

Liberal Democrats Conservative Republicans Both

Black Power, in contrast to the non-violence movement, was championed by figures like ____________________ and organizations like the ________________________________ founded in Oakland, California.

Malcolm X, Black Panthers

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

Merging with the Black Panther Party

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

Milton Friedman

How did American liberals change their views of poverty during the 1960s?

More and more saw poverty from the failure of individuals to take full advantage of the American system

What initially sparked the 1973 energy crisis?

OPEC's embargo of oil exports to the United States in retaliation for American intervention in the Middle East

Who was the leader of the movement to stop the Equal Rights Amendment?

Phylis Schlafly

What was the intention of the War Powers Resolution?

Reduce the president's ability to wage war without congressional consent

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

Rebellion and individuality

How did the federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color?

Redlining neighborhoods that included Americans of color

Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalized abortion hinged on what legal idea?

Right of Privacy

Which two prominent Americans were assassinated in 1968?

Robert Kennedy, MLK

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 All of the above

Who first challenged segregation on buses?

Sarah Keys

Who organized the first sit-ins?

Students

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

The Southern Baptist Convention

Who were the "Brass Hats?"

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

What event was exploited as a pretext for escalating American involvement in Vietnam?

The military coup that ousted Diem

What happened at My Lai?

U.S. troops massacred hundreds of civilians