The chapter introduction tells the story of a schoolgirl and a teacher to make the point that
D). the wrenching changes of the 1960s, which affected most Americans, grew out of the social trends and conditions of the 1950s
The Civil Rights movement
Brought down legalized segregation in the South just as many African Americans were leaving the region for northern cities.
The southern economy grew faster than the national economy after World War II for all of the following reasons except
The surplus of black laborers
The case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka concerned
Racial segregation in public schools
Martin Luther King Jr. rose to leadership in the civil rights movement during the 1950s. His strategies different from the recent past, would become the primary techniques of the civil rights movement into the 1960s. What is the most accurate summary of this transition in the movement?
King proposed non-violent confrontation rather than the NAACP's strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts.
During the efforts to integrate the schools in Little Rock
President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard
Each of the following is an example of the grass roots efforts in the civil rights movement EXPECT
The decision to desegregate the schools
What finally pushed the Kennedy admin to commit to federal legislation to end segregation and protect voting rights?
the violent repression of non violent demonstrations in Alabama
The Civil rights Act of 1964 according to your text "marked one of the great moment in history of America reform." It provided for all of the following EXPECT
Requirements that persons accused of crimes must be informed of their rights and allowed to consult a lawyer.
The Immigration Act of 1965
Abolished the national origins quota system
All of the following were elements of Johnson's "Great Society" programs EXCPET
A funding program to return tac revenues to state
The Immigration Act of 1965
was nicknamed the "brothers and sisters act" because of its strong preference to reunite families of immigrants already in the US
One of the key concepts articulated in the "Port Huron Statement" of students for a Democratic Society was
Participatory democracy
The counterculture of the 1960s
Considered American culture too materialistic and shallow
Vatican II
Allowed priests to conduct mass in the vernacular
What geographic reorientation of popular culture had occurred by the later 1960s?
The rise of the West Coast a trend setter
