Castle 61: Sixties and Kent State

Name: ____________________________________
61. Sixties to Kent State
1. Base your answer to the question on the letter below
and on your knowledge of social studies.
2. During the 1960s and 1970s, Cesar Chavez worked
to unionize migrant farm workers by
1. seizing the land of the lettuce and grape growers
2. securing passage of federal legislation to limit
immigration
3. using nonviolent tactics such as boycotts and
hunger strikes
4. urging growers to reduce the workforce through
mechanization
3. Which development was a direct result of the baby
boom that followed World War II?
1. decrease in school construction
2. increase in suburbanization
3. decline in crime rates
4. rise in immigration
4. Base your answer to the question on the newspaper
headlines below and on your knowledge of social
studies.
What advice about United States involvement in
Vietnam is President Lyndon B. Johnson being given in
this letter?
1. Escalation of the Vietnam War is necessary to
stop communist expansion.
2. Increasing the United States military
commitment to Vietnam would be a mistake.
3. Victory in the Vietnam War will be assured if the
president continues his policies.
4. Military success in Vietnam is improving the
president’s chances for reelection.
The crisis highlighted in these newspaper headlines was
the
1. invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba
2. election of Fidel Castro as president of Cuba
3. opposition of Cuba to the Alliance for Progress
4. placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba by the
Soviet Union
5. Base your answer to the question on the passage
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
6. Base your answer to the question on the cartoon below
and on your knowledge of social studies.
…In a land of great wealth, families must not live in
hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just
must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles,
neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great
land of learning and scholars, young people must be
taught to read and write….
— President Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Address,
January 20, 1965
Which program was proposed by President Lyndon B.
Johnson to address the problems identified in this
passage?
1. Square Deal 3. Great Society
2. New Frontier 4. New Federalism
The cartoon suggests that during the 1950s leaders in
government and education
1. were challenged by the baby boom that followed
World War II
2. provided greater resources for rural schools than for
urban schools
3. placed excessive burdens on schools through federal
legislation
4. supported separate classrooms for students based on
gender
Base your answer to this question on the passage
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
… We will stay because in Asia and around the world
are countries whose independence rests, in large
measure, on confidence in America’s word and in
America’s protection. To yield to force in Vietnam
would weaken that confidence, would undermine the
independence of many lands, and would whet the
appetite of aggression. We would have to fight in one
land, and then we would have to fight in another—or
abandon much of Asia to the domination of
Communists.…
— President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union
Address, January 12, 1966
Base your answer to this question on the photograph
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Figure 2
Figure 1
7. [Refer to figure 1]
Which idea is best described in this passage?
1. appeasement 3. domino theory
2. isolationism 4. neutrality
8. One way the United States government reacted to
the Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957 was by
1. establishing a naval blockade of Cuba
2. urging more Americans to buy war bonds
3. starting the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(SALT)
4. increasing federal spending on math and science
education
9. [Refer to figure 2]
The situation shown in this 1950 photograph is a direct
result of the
1. Great Migration
2. application of grandfather clauses
3. passage of Jim Crow laws
4. Montgomery bus boycott
10. One way in which the feminist movement of the late
1960s and early 1970s is similar to the civil rights
movement of the 1950s and 1960s is that both
1. used public demonstrations and protests to draw
attention to their goals
2. opposed Supreme Court decisions expanding the
rights of the accused
3. refused support from churches and religious
leaders
4. focused on securing equal access to housing
11. The growing use of the automobile in the 1920s and
the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 both contributed to
1. the expansion of inner cities
2. an increase in immigration
3. the growth of suburbs
4. a resurgence in rail travel
12. A major goal of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s
Great Society program was to
15. Base your answer to the question on the photograph
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
1. increase farm production
2. provide aid to developing nations in Africa
3. enact social welfare programs to end poverty
4. expand the size of the military
13. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) provided
congressional support for
1. withdrawing from the United Nations
2. expanding the Alliance for Progress
3. escalating military action in Vietnam
4. reestablishing trade with Cuba
14. “Convention Meets at Seneca Falls”
“19th Amendment Ratified”
“Betty Friedan Organizes National
Organization for Women”
Which statement about women in the United States is
best illustrated by these headlines?
1. The role of women in society has remained
unchanged since colonial times.
2. The struggle for women’s rights has spanned
many decades.
3. The earnings of women today are equal to those
of men.
4. The movement for women’s rights has lacked
leadership.
Conditions such as the one shown in the photograph
were legally ended by the
1. issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in
1863
2. ratification of the 15th amendment in 1870
3. decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896
4. passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
16. Base your answer to the question on the song lyrics
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
… Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a­changin’…
— Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A­
Changin’,” 1963
Which concern of the 1960s is being commented on by
the author of these lyrics?
1. rural poverty
3. environmental protection
2. adult illiteracy 4. the generation gap
17. Which action is the best example of the use of civil
disobedience?
1. passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965
2. lobbying Congress to eliminate the poll tax
3. attending a political rally in Iowa
4. conducting sit­ins at restaurants in the South
18. The Cuban missile crisis was effectively ended
when the
1. Soviet Union agreed to withdraw weapons from
Cuba
2. Bay of Pigs invasion removed Fidel Castro from
power
3. Cuban authorities signed new trade agreements
with the United States
4. United States announced the formation of the
Alliance for Progress
Base your answer to the question on the passage below
and on your knowledge of social studies.
…You express a great deal of anxiety over our
willingness to break laws. This is certainly a
legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge
people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of
1954 outlawing segregation in the public
schools, at first glance it may seem rather
paradoxical for us consciously to break laws.
One may want to ask: “How can you advocate
breaking some laws and obeying others?” The
answer lies in the fact that there are two types of
laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to
advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a
legal but a moral responsibility to obey just
laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility
to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St.
Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at
all.”…
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from
Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963
Figure 3
19. [Refer to figure 3]
Which statement most accurately summarizes the main
idea of the passage?
1. People must obey Supreme Court decisions.
2. You can never break some laws while obeying
others.
3. Violence brings faster results than peaceful
protest.
4. Following moral principles is sometimes more
important than following the law.
20. [Refer to figure 3]
Which type of action against unjust laws is Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. supporting in this passage?
1. militant resistance 3. judicial activism
2. civil disobedience 4. affirmative action