Civil Rights Review
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- Q1The New Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society all were Presidential efforts intended mainly tosettle conflicts between nationsDevelop national programs to bring about changeprotect the rights of Native American indiansprovide for the defense of the US30s
- Q2During the 1960s, leaders of the civil rights movement made the greatest progress towards their goals bysupporting the armed revolutionConducting sit-ins and marchesencouraging a policy of apartheidgetting help from foreign countries60s
- Q3President Johnson's Great Society was an effort to solve the problem ofillegal immigrationDrug traffickingPovertyoverpopulation60s
- Q4Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, "I have a dream," had a great effect on the emotions of many Americans becausemany Americans were deprived of their civil rightsattention was focused on the demand of 18-year old citizens to get the right to votethe US was deeply divided by war in Vietnama violent revolution was encouraged60s
- Q5Both the New Deal and Great Society shared the idea thattaxes should be raisedthe Federal Government should meet the economic and social needs of the less fortunateforeign trade should be cut to a minimumkey industries should be nationalized60s
- Q6The US Supreme Court decision in "Brown v Board of Education" is important to the civil rights movement because it established thatthe use of poll taxes is illegalit is unconstitutional to segregate students by racethe "separate but equal" principle is constitutionalracial discrimination is perfectly legal60s
- Q7Which trend occurred in US society in the 1950sthe automobile became less importantsuburban areas developed rapidlythe number of marriages declinedday-care services skyrocketed60s
- Q8Racial segregation in schools was declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court decision inRoe v WadePlessy v FergusonDred Scott v SanfordBrown v. Board of Education60s
- Q9Which approach by Martin Luther King Jr., was the best way to achieve equalitythe use of violencecreation of separate state for African Americanspatience while legislature changes lawsthe use of civil disobedience and nonviolence60s
- Q10The main goal of the NAACP was tosegregate public transportationwin court cases guaranteeing "separate but equal" educational facilities for African American studentssegregate public schoolsend the segregation of African Americans and white Americans through the Judicial system60s
- Q11When the Little Rock Nine FIRST arrived at Central High Schoolthey were arrested for attempting to integrate schoolsNAACP escorted them to classArkansas National Guard refused them entry to the schoolCivil Rights activists cheered as they walked into the building60s