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What is civil disobedience
Which country supplied Cuba with missiles
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Which country supplied Cuba with missiles
china
North Korea
Japan
USSR
2
What is civil disobedience
using the court system to change the country
using brute force to have the govt meet your demands
refusing to follow laws that are unjust
to leave the country and go to a country with less troubles
3
MLK organized a march from Selma to Birmingham that ended with
Mississippi Burning
Race Riot
Bloody Sunday
Protection Racket
4
Woolworth department store was the target of sit-ins in the city of
Greensboro, NC
Little Rock, AR
Atlanta, GA
Jackson, Mississippi
5
The Presidential Election between Nixon and Kennedy is unique because it was the first to use
speech campaigns
radio advertisement
televised debates
internet campaigns
6
Kennedy's flexible response, which means
attack communist nations before they get us
completely giving up on massive retaliation
using special forces to be ready for anything
using the peace corps to spy on others
7
What is a third world country
poorly developed country with extreme poverty
rich western nations
a US ally during the war
countries that need rebuilding after the war
8
The S in SNCC stands for what
Southern
Student
South Carolina
Safety
9
Which President desegregated the military?
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Truman
Kennedy
10
The election of JFK brings in his cabinet of intelligent people called
Camelot
New Frontier
the think tank
the Braniacs
11
Jim Crow laws were created in the South in order to:
Keep women from voting
stop illegal immigrants from entering the country
rebuild the South after the civil war
segregate black people from white people
12
Which of the following was not a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis
hotline was set up
US invasion of Cuba to remove government
nuclear test ban treaty
blockade of Cuba to stop missile set up
13
Who was the communist dictator in Cuba
Pig
Johnson
Krushchev
Castro
14
The Civil Rights act of 1964 managed to
end legal discrimination
be defeated in the US Senate
end discrimination within the government only
end racism in the US
15
Earl Warren was the
president
speaker of the house
general during the wa
chief justice of the supreme court
16
The March on Washington did all of the following except
lead to the passage of the civil rights act of 1964
led to the creation of the NAACP
saw MLK give the I have a dream speech
infused the movement
17
The Civil Rights act of 1957 allowed
the attorney general can investigate segregation cases
Congress to investigate state governors for racist activiy
President can use the military to keep states in line
the writ of habeas corpus to be suspended in the south
18
JFK was assassinated in
Dallas, TX
Atlanta, GA
Washington DC
Memphis, TN
19
Medicare was created to provide
assistance for workers
retirement benefits for workers
funding for education
healthcare for the elderly
20
After the assassination of MLK and ______ the civil rights movement came to an end
Thurgood Marshall
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Robert Kennedy
21
The Freedom Riders wanted to prove that:
it was safe for blacks to use the public transportation
Kennedy did not support the civil rights movement
desegregation efforts were not working in the south
none of the above
22
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the state of
Alabama
Tennessee
South Carolina
Texas
23
the Black Panthers used
nonviolent action
the legal system
force
boycotts
24
The Bay of Pigs refers to a failed invasion of Cuba staged by which US organization
KGB
CIA
UN
FBI
25
Plessy v Ferguson is best described by which of the following
separate but equal
Clear and Present Danger
supremacy of Government
Trail of Tears
26
Before the assassination of MLK, he decided to focus on
poverty
gender
inner city troubles
crime
27
Kennedy used what term for his campagin
Square Deal
Great Society
New Frontier
Camelot
28
Which describes a boycott
filing legal proceedings to chose a business
crowding a business so that no customers will be allowed in
refusal by a group of people to use a service
business that is the only source of a good or service
29
Which of the following is the Supreme Court case that segregated the US?
Scopes Monkey Trial
Brown V BOE
Plessy V Ferguson
Schenck v United States
30
Who shot Kennedy
Johnson
Hoover
Ruby
Oswald
31
The 24th amendment to the Constitution was in important because it protected
women's rights
the right to vote
workers rights
desegregation efforts
32
Which of the following is an example of de jury segregation
Georgia has the most lynchings
the southern suburbs grew as white moved out of the city
Mississippi sets up literacy tests in order to vote
Alabama has more poverty than any other
33
The war for civil rights will be centered around which Alabama town
Birmingham
Selma
Montgomery
Jackson
34
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s occupation was:
Author
Bus driver
Baptist Minister
Doctor
35
James Meredith was accepted into the University of
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
36
The first state capital to challenge desegregation:
Jefferson City
Little Rock
Jackson
Atlanta
37
Johnsons administration helped to create
trade schools
secondary schools
headstart
high school cirriculum
38
King gave his "I have a dream" speech in the city of:
Washington D.C.
Atlanta
Boston
New York
39
WEB Dubois differed from Bokker T Washington because he wanted
immediate equality
slow steady progress within the counrty
to gain political positions in the govt
he did not want equality for other races
40
The goal of the Freedom summer of 1964 was to
ride desegregated buses in the south
create chapters of the NAACP in rural areas
register black voters across the south
end race riots throughout the North
41
The Apollo Program was set up to
create the US space program
create NASA
Send a man to the moon
create education programs
