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
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