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