The enforced racial separation of separate drinking fountain caused

African Americans' struggle for equality

What did Title IX do?

It opened school athletics to girls and women

Which BEST explains why the environmental movement came into being

Release of chemicals into the environment was causing harm

Which of the following was one of Jimmy Carter's achievements as president

negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel

a large suburb of affordable homes

What was one effect of television

entertainers became major national stars

What was one effect of the Watergate scandal

Many Americans lost faith in government

How did President Truman further the cause of civil rights

by issuing an executive order integrating the armed forces

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1
Lets a user charge goods and services and pay for them later
credit card
sit-in
impeach
discrimination
2
The enforced racial separation of separate drinking fountain caused
The Women's movement
The formation of the United Farm Workers
Elvis Presley's popularity
African Americans' struggle for equality
3
Who was the first African American Supreme Court justice
Clarence Thomas
Roy Wilkins
Thrugood Marshall
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
4
What did Title IX do?
It set up affirmative action programs
It provided Heat Start programs for children
It guaranteed African American voting rights
It opened school athletics to girls and women
5
Sit-ins were intended to end the segregation of
buses
the armed forces
lunch counters
schools
6
Which BEST explains why the environmental movement came into being
Release of chemicals into the environment was causing harm
Workers in California had to endure terrible conditions
Native American wanted to end the discrimination
Women were demanding an end to their unequal treatment
7
a strategy that was used to pretest against segregated lunch counters
sit-in
impeach
credit card
discrimination
8
The Great Society was born during the presidency of
Lyndon Johnson
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
9
A community outside the city
neighborhoods
suburb
baby boom
veteran
10
to charge an elected official with a crime
sit-in
credit card
impeach
discrimination
11
What would be the best title for this list? transistor radios, televisions, direct-dial phone
Signs of the Great Depression
New Peacetime Technologies
Sources of Political Change
Effects of World War II
12
a law that gave veterans funds for education, home loans, and other benefits
discrimination
sit-in
impeach
GI Bill of Rights
13
The wave of births from 1945 to 1964
Suburbs
Veterans
Baby Boom
14
Which of the following was one of Jimmy Carter's achievements as president
freeing the hostages in Iran
negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
pardoning Richard Nixon
Increasing oil imports
15
unfair treatment of people based on race or gender
credit card
discrimination
sit-in
impeach
16
What new form of music swept the nation in the 1950s?
chamber music
rock and roll
hip-hop
jazz
17
What was Levittown
a large suburb of affordable homes
the reason interstate highways were built
the site of a bus boycott
the title of a popular television show
18
What was one effect of television
a band called the Beatles formed
Richard Nixon was elected president
baseball became the national pastime
entertainers became major national stars
19
Which of the following BEST describes the general situation in postwar America
Great Depression
equality for all
low employment
population decrease
20
What was one effect of the Watergate scandal
Gerald Ford was elected president
Iran took American hostages
Many Americans lost faith in government
Richard Nixon was impreached
21
How did President Truman further the cause of civil rights
by proposing legislation to guarantee voting rights
by issuing an executive order integrating the armed forces
by starting the war on poverty
by supporting the efforts of Martin Luther King

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