CA #7 - Unit 13 - Civil Rights Test

Question 1

What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift?

Accepted Answer

Overcome a Soviet blockade of West Berlin

Question 2

What civil rights organization sued in Brown vs. BOE?

Accepted Answer

NAACP

Question 3

How did the US respond to the Soviet launching of Sputnik?

Accepted Answer

Increased funding in school math and science

Question 4

Which of the following helped to rebuild European nations after WWII?

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 5

Assassinated in 1968 causing more than 100 riots across America...

Accepted Answer

MLK

Question 6

Eisenhower sent troops to allow black High School students enter school...

Accepted Answer

Little Rock Nine

Question 7

The Interstate Highway Act caused what to happen?

Accepted Answer

Increase in communities in the suburbs

Question 8

Truman Doctrine...

Accepted Answer

Sending Military and Economic aid to Greece and Turkey

Question 9

What was MLK's approach to protest?

Accepted Answer

non-violent protest

Question 10

What was the name of the Civil Rights organization started by MLK?

Accepted Answer

SCLC

Question 11

Failed assassination of Fidel Castro and invasion of Cuba...

Accepted Answer

Bay of Pigs

Question 12

What was responsible for the development of the atomic bomb?

Accepted Answer

The Manhattan Project

Question 13

Set of laws that separated whites and blacks in the south...

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 14

The Voting Rights Act of 1965...

Accepted Answer

got rid of poll taxes and literacy tests

Question 15

What civil rights organization was composed of college and high school students?

Accepted Answer

SNCC

Question 16

The US committed to a policy of mutual defense with free European countries...

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 17

Landmark Supreme Court decision allowing whites and blacks to go the same schools...

Accepted Answer

Brown vs. BOE

Question 18

Which of the following actions did President JFK take towards Cuba?

Accepted Answer

Naval quarantine

Question 19

Started the Montgomery Bus Boycott due to refusal to take a seat in the back of the bus...

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 20

JFK was credited with starting...

Accepted Answer

Peace Corps

Question 21

The House Committee on Un-American Activities investigated...

Accepted Answer

allegations of communism

Question 22

Headed the Brown vs. BOE court case and was the first black Supreme Court Justice...

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 23

What was the purpose of LBJ's "Great Society"?

Accepted Answer

end poverty

CA #7 - Unit 13 - Civil Rights Test

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CA #7 - Unit 13 - Civil Rights Test

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