Question 1

Which of the following may be considered the underlying reason for the Watts race riot of 1965?

Accepted Answer

A)  African Americans resented the fact that they were drafted disproportionately to whites to fight in Vietnam. 
B)  African Americans were frustrated and angry over their joblessness and lack of opportunity. 
C)  Radical left-wing instigators incited African Americans to engage in violence. 
D)  Whites were angry over the expansion of the African-American neighborhood of Watts into surrounding white neighborhoods. 
A)  African Americans resented the fact that they were drafted disproportionately to whites to fight in Vietnam. 
B)  African Americans were frustrated and angry over their joblessness and lack of opportunity. 
C)  Radical left-wing instigators incited African Americans to engage in violence. 
D)  Whites were angry over the expansion of the African-American neighborhood of Watts into surrounding white neighborhoods.

Question 2

Examine the factors and forces that pushed the African American protest movement to more radical action in the mid-1960s. What forms did this action take? What were its results?

Accepted Answer

The African American protest movement wa

Question 3

Malcolm X was assassinated by ___________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  supporters of Martin Luther King, Jr 
B)  Black Muslims who believed he had betrayed their cause 
C)  white assassins hired by the FBI 
D)  a member of the Ku Klux Klan 
A)  supporters of Martin Luther King, Jr 
B)  Black Muslims who believed he had betrayed their cause 
C)  white assassins hired by the FBI 
D)  a member of the Ku Klux Klan

Question 4

The Alliance for Progress (1961) illustrates __________________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the kind of successful Soviet investment in technological development in Africa that President Kennedy thought the United States had to make 
B)  the dozens of business-government cooperative ventures that President Kennedy promoted during his first year in office 
C)  a series of anti-Cuba trade agreements the United States pressured South American countries to sign 
D)  that the Kennedy administration applied the concept of nation building to Latin America by promoting economic development in the region 
A)  the kind of successful Soviet investment in technological development in Africa that President Kennedy thought the United States had to make 
B)  the dozens of business-government cooperative ventures that President Kennedy promoted during his first year in office 
C)  a series of anti-Cuba trade agreements the United States pressured South American countries to sign 
D)  that the Kennedy administration applied the concept of nation building to Latin America by promoting economic development in the region

Question 5

As a result of the War on Poverty, ___________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the number of elderly Americans living in poverty declined dramatically 
B)  rural poverty was practically eliminated 
C)  health-care costs began a slow but steady decline 
D)  poverty in households headed by women steadily declined over a period of ten years 
A)  the number of elderly Americans living in poverty declined dramatically 
B)  rural poverty was practically eliminated 
C)  health-care costs began a slow but steady decline 
D)  poverty in households headed by women steadily declined over a period of ten years

Question 6

Examine the factors and forces that led to the emergence of the New Left and the counterculture of the 1960s. What were the similarities and differences between these movements? What impact did they have on American society?

Accepted Answer

The emergence of the New Left and the co

Which of the following may be considered the underlying reason for the Watts race riot of 1965?

Examine the factors and forces that pushed the African American protest movement to more radical action in the mid-1960s. What forms did this action take? What were its results?

Malcolm X was assassinated by ___________________.

The Alliance for Progress (1961) illustrates __________________________.

As a result of the War on Poverty, ___________________.

Examine the factors and forces that led to the emergence of the New Left and the counterculture of the 1960s. What were the similarities and differences between these movements? What impact did they have on American society?

Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600

Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1650

North America in the Atlantic World, 1650-1720

Becoming America, 1720-1760

The Ends of Empire, 1754-1774

American Revolutions, 1775-1783

Forging a Nation, 1783-1800

Defining the Nation, 1801-1823

The Rise of the South, 1815-1860

The Restless North, 1815-1860

The Contested West, 1815-1860

Politics and the Fate of the Union, 1824-1859

Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1860-1865

Reconstruction: an Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877

The Ecology of the West and South, 1865-1900

Building Factories, Building Cities, 1877-1900

Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900

The Progressive ERA, 1895-1920

The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914

Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920

The New ERA, 1920-1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945

The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961

America at Midcentury, 1945-1960

A Pivotal ERA, 1969-1980

Conservatism Revived, 1980-1992

Into the Global Millennium: America Since 1992

Filters

Exam 26: The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968

Which of the following may be considered the underlying reason for the Watts race riot of 1965?

Examine the factors and forces that pushed the African American protest movement to more radical action in the mid-1960s. What forms did this action take? What were its results?

Malcolm X was assassinated by ___________________.

The Alliance for Progress (1961) illustrates __________________________.

As a result of the War on Poverty, ___________________.

Examine the factors and forces that led to the emergence of the New Left and the counterculture of the 1960s. What were the similarities and differences between these movements? What impact did they have on American society?

Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600

Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1650

North America in the Atlantic World, 1650-1720

Becoming America, 1720-1760

The Ends of Empire, 1754-1774

American Revolutions, 1775-1783

Forging a Nation, 1783-1800

Defining the Nation, 1801-1823

The Rise of the South, 1815-1860

The Restless North, 1815-1860

The Contested West, 1815-1860

Politics and the Fate of the Union, 1824-1859

Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1860-1865

Reconstruction: an Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877

The Ecology of the West and South, 1865-1900

Building Factories, Building Cities, 1877-1900

Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900

The Progressive ERA, 1895-1920

The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914

Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920

The New ERA, 1920-1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945

The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961

America at Midcentury, 1945-1960

A Pivotal ERA, 1969-1980

Conservatism Revived, 1980-1992

Into the Global Millennium: America Since 1992

Filters