The American Yawp Quiz

The American Yawp The Sixties Quiz 1. Who organized the first sit-ins? a. Churches b. NAACP c. Students d. Members of the Communist Party 2. How did the first freedom ride end? a. Angry mobs composed of KKK members attacked the riders in Birmingham, Alabama and burned one of the buses and beat the activists who escaped b. The riders were arrested in Mongomery, Alabama c. The ride was peaceful and ignored by both southerners and northern media d. The ride drew protests and media attention, but there was no violence 3. The Albany Movement, centered in Albany, Georgia, drew on Christian commitments to social justice and united all of the following Civil Rights groupd EXCEPT a. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee b. Southern Christian Leadership Conference c. National Association for the Advancement of colored People d. The Southern Baptist Convention 4. President Johnson proposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 partially in response to what event in Selma, Alabama a. Bombing of an Africa American church b. “Bloody Sunday,” the beating of peaceful marchers by police officers c. The jailing of Martin Luther King, Jr. d. The assassination of Malcolm X 5. In the mid-1960s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) experienced a transformation. This transformation included all of the following EXCEPT a. The growing influence of radical leaders like stokely Carmichael b. The expulsion of all white members c. Merging with the Black Panther Party d. Focus on racial injustice in northern cities 6. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 focused on what primary issue a. Desegregating school b. Protecting voting rights c. Racially integrating the armed forces d. Outlawing discrimination in housing 7. The 1968 Democratic National Convention included massive protest and violent reprisals by the police. Where did this convention meet? a. Chicago b. Washington D.C. c. Memphis d. Atlanta 8. Advertisers in the 1960s innovated by beginning to emphasize which of the following traits as a means of sellingproducts? a. Beauty and sexual attractiveness b. Rebellion and individuality c. Worldliness and intelligence d. All of the above 9. Which group first promoted the idea that drug use could remedy feelings of alienation? a. Scientist b. Musicians c. Civil rights activists d. Feminists 10. The National Indian Youth Coucil (NIYC) differed from the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) because the NIYC a. Emphasized the legal importance of treaty rights b. Employed direct action tactics and more combative rhetoric c. Were more interested in cultural preservation than legal strategies of resistance d. Showed less interest in issues of sovereignty and self-determination 11. Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique focused on what primary issue a. Employment discrimination based on gender b. Rising incidents of rape and sexual violence c. The problems facing women in poverty d. Feeling of dissatisfaction with life as a housewife 12. What was the subject of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring? a. Environmental dangers of pesticides b. Threats of nuclear war c. Persistence of sexism in the 1960s d. The role of religion in the Civil Rights movement 13. What did Lyndon Johnson call his domestic program? a. Square Deal b. New Frontier c. Great Society d. Fair Deal 14. The cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty was which program? a. Peace Corp b. Teach for America c. Community Action d. Head Start 15. What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis? a. Castro’s invitation to the Soviet Union to install missiles b. Retaliation for the American nuclear arsenal housed in Turkey c. Hostile relations between the United States and Cuba d. All of the above