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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. Which group’s actions led to the integration of many southern restaurants?
a. / Nation of Islam / c. / Freedom Ridersb. / Black Panthers / d. / SNCC
____ 2. Who was the FBI director who attempted to “disrupt” and “discredit” black nationalists and various civil rights organizations?
a. / Jimmy Kelley / c. / Stokely Carmichaelb. / J. Edgar Hoover / d. / Allan Bakke
____ 3. Which event led to dramatic increases in African American voter registration?
a. / COFO voter registration drivesb. / passage of the Voting Rights Act
c. / March on Washington
d. / founding of the Black Panther Party
____ 4. Who was the governor who banned the protest march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965?
a. / Andrew Goodman / c. / George Wallaceb. / T. Eugene Connor / d. / Ross Barnett
____ 5. From which jail did Martin Luther King Jr. write a famous letter to a group of clergymen?
a. / McComb / c. / Selmab. / Memphis / d. / Birmingham
____ 6. Carl Stokes became the first African American mayor of
a. / Cleveland. / c. / Milwaukee.b. / Detroit. / d. / Chicago.
____ 7. The Supreme Court banned racial segregation in public schools in
a. / 1963. / c. / 1941.b. / 1968. / d. / 1954.
____ 8. What was the name of the settlement constructed to draw attention to African American poverty?
a. / Resurrection City / c. / Poorhouse Cityb. / City of Angels / d. / Hooverville
____ 9. During the early primaries of 1968, which of the following candidates appeared likely to capture the Democratic nomination for president?
a. / Robert F. Kennedy / c. / Hubert Humphreyb. / Eugene McCarthy / d. / Edmund Muskie
____ 10. Defoliants were used in Vietnam primarily to
a. / destroy military bases.b. / expose enemy hiding places and destroy food supplies.
c. / poison the Vietcong.
d. / destroy homes.
____ 11. Who was Richard Nixon’s running mate during the 1968 election?
a. / Robert S. McNamara / c. / Spiro Agnewb. / J. William Fulbright / d. / Edmund Muskie
____ 12. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Vietnam War?
a. / Richard Nixon / c. / Richard J. Daleyb. / Henry Kissinger / d. / Ho Chi Minh
____ 13. The War Powers Act
a. / grants the president the right to declare war without the permission of Congress.b. / forbids the president from ever sending troops into foreign territory.
c. / sets a 60-day limit on any presidential commitment of troops to foreign lands.
d. / allows the president to send troops into foreign territory for an unlimited amount of time.
____ 14. The site of a 1970 tragedy in which four students were killed by National Guard troops was the
a. / University of Wisconsin. / c. / University of Illinois.b. / Jackson State University. / d. / Kent State University.
____ 15. The newspaper that published the Pentagon Papers was the
a. / New York Times. / c. / Detroit Free Press.b. / Washington Post. / d. / New York Post.
____ 16. Who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press?
a. / H.R. Haldeman / c. / Daniel Ellsbergb. / Henry Kissinger / d. / Spiro Agnew
____ 17. After rejecting North Vietnam’s peace plan in 1972, what did President Nixon do when North Vietnam demanded the plan be reinstated?
a. / He submitted his own peace plan.b. / He ordered heavy bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
c. / He had Congress review the North Vietnam plan.
d. / He had Henry Kissinger revise the plan.
____ 18. How many Americans died during the Vietnam War?
a. / more than 258,000 / c. / about 1,300b. / about 5,000 / d. / more than 58,000
____ 19. How much did the war cost American taxpayers?
a. / $1.5 trillion / c. / $150 millionb. / $15 billion / d. / $150 billion
____ 20. Where is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
a. / New York City / c. / Arlington, Virginiab. / Washington, D.C. / d. / Saigon
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. / Robert Mosesb. / Medgar Evers
c. / Martin Luther King Jr.
d. / James Chaney
e. / Malcolm X
____ 21. delivered one of the most famous addresses in American history in 1963
____ 22. CORE worker who was murdered during Freedom Summer
____ 23. leader of the SNCC who wanted white supporters to help in voter registration drives
____ 24. NAACP field secretary who was murdered by a white racist in 1963
____ 25. called for unity among all people after converting to orthodox Islam
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. / Henry Kissingerb. / Le Doc Tho
c. / Vietminh
d. / Ngo Dinh Diem
e. / Ho Chi Minh
____ 26. longtime North Vietnamese revolutionary who met secretly with a U.S. official in Paris in 1970
____ 27. Leader of South Vietnam
____ 28. key foreign-policy adviser of Richard Nixon
____ 29. also known as the League for the Independence of Vietnam
____ 30. “He Who Enlightens”
Essay
31. What is the Draft? Why did some Americans think that the draft was unfair?
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Answer Section
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: D
2. ANS: B
3. ANS: B
4. ANS: C
5. ANS: D
6. ANS: A
7. ANS: D
8. ANS: A
9. ANS: A
10. ANS: B
11. ANS: C
12. ANS: B
13. ANS: C
14. ANS: D
15. ANS: A
16. ANS: C
17. ANS: B
18. ANS: D
19. ANS: D
20. ANS: B
MATCHING
21. ANS: C
22. ANS: D
23. ANS: A
24. ANS: B
25. ANS: E
26. ANS: B
27. ANS: D
28. ANS: A
29. ANS: C
30. ANS: E
ESSAY
31. ANS:
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