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8th -
11thgrade
Domestic Policy and Reform: Great American Facts Set 9
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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThe first amendment of the Constitution deals primarily withstates’ rightsproperty rightsrights of the accusedrights of self-expression
- 2. Multiple ChoiceThe major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s was toestablish a separate political state for African Americansgain passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitutionend segregation based on racepermit unlimited immigration to the United States
- 3. Multiple ChoiceIn 1954, the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka advanced the civil rights movement byguaranteeing equal voting rights to African Americansbanning racial segregation in hotels and restaurantsdeclaring that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th amendmentupholding the principle of separate but equal public facilities
- 4. Multiple ChoiceDuring the civil rights movement of the 1960s, activities of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) illustrated thatall civil rights groups use the same tacticsdifferent approaches can be used to achieve a common goalorganizational differences usually lead to failureviolence is the best tool for achieving social change
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhen necessary to achieve justice, which method did Martin Luther King, Jr., urge his followers to employ?using violence to bring about political changeengaging in civil disobedienceleaving any community in which racism is practiceddemanding that Congress pay reparations to African Americans
- 6. Multiple ChoiceA major goal of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society was toprovide government aid to businessend poverty in the United Statesconserve natural resourcesstop immigration from Latin America
- 7. Multiple Choice“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.’” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Washington, D.C., 1963 Which step was taken following this speech to advance the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.?desegregation of the Armed Forcesruling in Plessy v. Fergusonelimination of the Ku Klux Klanpassage of new civil rights acts
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat was a lasting effect of the Watergate scandal under President Richard Nixon?The system of checks and balances was weakened.The scope of executive privilege was broadened.Trust in elected officials was undermined.Presidential responsiveness to public opinion was lessened.
- 9. Multiple ChoicePresident Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China in 1972 was significant because itconvinced the Chinese to abandon communismbrought about the unification of Taiwan and Communist Chinareduced tensions between the United States and Communist Chinadecreased United States dependence on Chinese exports
- 10. Multiple ChoiceA major goal of the Republican Party since the 1980s has been toincrease welfare benefitsincrease the size of the federal workforcereduce defense spendingcut federal taxes
- 11. Multiple ChoiceMartin Luther King, Jr. first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement when heled the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabamarefused to give up his seat on a bus to a white manchallenged the authority of the Supreme Courtwas elected as the first black congressman from the South
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe ratification of the 26th amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was a result of theparticipation of the United States in the Vietnam Warfear of McCarthyismreaction to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Unionreporting of the Watergate scandal
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