HIST 1302 - Exam 4 (Ch. 31-34)
In 1966 the rallying cry of the civil rights movement became
"Black power"
As George H. W. Bush prepared for the 1992 election, his greatest weakness became:
A major downturn in the economy
At Columbia University in 1968:
A student strike shut down the campus
The Strategic Defense Initiative involved
An anti-missile defense system
For the first Bush administration, the major problem in the early 1990s was
An economic recession
The United States entered the 1990s:
As the world's only remaining superpower
The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the
Bay of Pigs invasion
The hippie movement ultimately:
Began to wane as counter-culture had become counter-productive
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s:
Challenged established authority in favor of "participatory democracy"
In the Birmingham campaign in 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. signaled a change in strategy from
Changing southern white attitudes to obtaining federal enforcement and new laws
As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by:
Cutting taxes
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique:
Explained the unhappiness of so many middle-class women
The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:
Failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S. had the support of troops from
Great Britain, Australia, and Poland
Richard Nixon:
Had a reputation for hard-line anti-communism and rough campaign tactics
By 1971, the New Left:
Had split into factions and largely self-destructed
The leader of the Moral Majority was:
Jerry Falwell
The bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building was an example of
Militia hatred of the federal government
In the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy:
Promised to get the country "moving again"
Most likely to support the Moral Majority would be:
Southern Baptists
To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed:
Sunny
One major inspiration for Reagan's economic approach was:
The Republican tax-reduction program of 1920's
President Johnson said that "we have just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come" after
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Carter's management of the economy resulted in:
Unacceptably high rates of inflation
The result of the 1960 election:
Was likely determined by African American votes in a few southern states
In 1964, the University of California at Berkeley:
Was the sight of a free-speech movement (FSM)
The youths of the counterculture:
Were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950's
A huge demographic factor behind Reagan's electoral success was:
population growth in the South and the West
Reagan's experience as an actor:
was invaluable in a television age
At the Altamont concert in 1969:
Hell's Angels killed a man in front of the stage
The anti-feminist women led by Phyllis Schlafly:
Helped keep the equal-rights amendment from being ratified
John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his:
His Health
The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:
His brother, Robert
Kennedy's inauguration is best remembered for:
His elegant and inspiring rhetoric
Young men were able to avoid service in Vietnam by all of the following methods EXCEPT:
Joining VISTA or the Peace Corps
Student civil rights activists in the South would likely experience all of the following EXCEPT:
Kennedy's public encouragement
In the impeachment proceeding, Bill Clinton was charged with
Lying under oath to a grand jury
Reagan first became a star in Republican politics when he:
Made a television speech for Goldwater in 1964
President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:
Men with new ideas and fresh thinking
In their role at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Yippies could best be described as:
Pranksters
In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:
Required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights
In 1968 the candidate who claimed to speak for the "silent majority" and "Middle America" was
Richard Nixon
The religious right fervently supported Reagan because he:
Supported its conservative social values
In 1968 the correct order of events was:
The Tet Offensive, LBJ's withdrawal from the presidential race, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. , and the Democratic convention in Chicago
Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:
The University of Mississippi
The Jobs Corps, Head Start, and VISTA were all part of
The War on Poverty
By 1960-1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by:
The example of the civil rights movement
Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:
The passage of a large tax cut
The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:
The sit-in
Early in Reagan's presidency, all of the following were increasing EXCEPT:
Tax revenues
