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Chapter 9 Quiz (USH)
Chapter 9 Quiz (USH)
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1
Which political candidate does the graph demonstrate winning the electoral vote?
Independent (Harry F. Byrd)
Republican (Richard Nixon)
Democratic (John F. Kennedy)
2
Which statement accurately describes the trend of African American voter registration according to this graph?
Fewer African Americans registered to vote after the Voting Rights Act
Passage of the Voting Rights Act ended racial discrimination in the South
The Voting Rights Act had little impact on voter registration in the South
Voter registration increased in the South b/c of the Voting Rights Act
3
What SC Chief Justice redefined civil rights & liberties throughout the 1960s through judicial interpretations?
John Roberts Jr.
Earl Warren
Melville Fuller
Hugo Black
4
Which political candidate does the graph demonstrate winning the popular vote?
Democratic (John F. Kennedy)
Republican (Richard Nixon)
Independent (Harry F. Byrd)
5
How did the Kennedy Administration know that the Soviet Union was putting ballistic missiles in Cuba?
Castro told the U.S. that he had missiles
Secret spies in Cuba
U-2 spy planes took pictures
American citizens discovered bombs on Cuba
6
Who was Linda Brown in the
Brown v. Board of Education
case?
A black girl who was denied from white schools close to her home.
A white girl who was denied from a white school.
A black girl who sat on the white section of the bus.
A white girl who could go to a black school.
7
What foreign affairs incident in Kennedy's presidency was considered a complete failure and embarrassment for the U.S.?
The Berlin Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Women's Rights in Puerto Rico
8
What American president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Harry S. Truman
9
What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested?
All of the above
Sat in the white only part of the bus.
Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.
Took a seat in the white only car of a train.
10
What was the name given to President JFK’s plan to improve the economy, fight racial discrimination, and explore space?
Great Society
New Frontier
New Deal
Black Power
11
What was the name given to President Johnson’s goals in the areas of health care, education, the environment, etc.?
Black Power
New Deal
New Frontier
Great Society
12
Complete this statement:
Plessy v. Ferguson
determined that --
Slavery was legal
Segregation was legal as long as it was equal.
Jim Crow laws could be passed by the federal government
Segregation was illegal.
13
Complete this statement:
In 1948, President Harry Truman aided African Americans in achieving civil rights by --
Providing federal support towards states that promoted Jim Crow Laws
Outlawing the practice of taxing African Americans at the polls
Banning discrimination practices within defense industries
Desegregating the U.S. military
14
Who was the leader of Cuba after the communist revolution of 1959?
Fidel Castro
Juan Peron
Fulgencio Batista
Raul Castro
15
What civil rights organizations supported the stances of Malcolm X?
Black Power Movement
Black Panthers
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Congress of Racial Equality
16
What was the result of
Brown v. Board of Education
?
It allowed children to work.
It required the desegregation of public schools.
To pay black individuals less than whites.
To allow blacks and whites to sit on the bus together.
17
What previous Supreme Court decision was overturned after
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
?
Browder v. Gayle
Plessy v. Ferguson
Engel v. Vitale
Tinker v. Des Moines
18
Martin Luther King Jr.'s
'I Have a Dream Speech
' was given at what famous civil rights protest in 1963?
March on Washington
March on Selma
Greensboro Sit-Ins
Montgomery Bus Boycott
19
Complete this statement:
Rosa Parks demonstration inspired Civil Rights groups to organize the --
Freedom Riders
Sit-Ins
Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Selma
20
Who did the U.S. government conclude as the assassin of President JFK and where did the assassination take place?
John Wilkes Booth in Washington, D.C.
Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas
James Earl Ray in Washington, D.C.
Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
21
True or False: The Bay of Pigs invasion was successful and stopped the spread of Communism into Cuba.
False
True
22
Complete this statement:
The United States had finally won in the
Space Race
against the Soviet Union in 1969 after --
They landed the first man on Mars
They launched the first satellite into orbit
They sent the first man into space
They landed the first man on the moon
23
What piece of legislation did President Johnson push through Congress as "Kennedy's greatest legacy?"
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Reemployment Rights of 1961
Revenue Act of 1964
Atomic Energy Act of 1961
