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A leading motto of the Women's Liberation movement was

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"The personal is political."

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According to defenders of the Vietnam War, American military withdrawal would encourage the spread of communism elsewhere around the world.

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True

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As part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, poor people were required to play a leading part in designing and implementing local policies.

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True

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As part of the Freedom Summer, in June 1964 three young voting rights activists were murdered in Mississippi—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

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True

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At the 1968 Miss America beauty pageant, the media came to derisively label radical feminists as "bra burners," but no bras were actually burned at the event.

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True

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At the peak of the Vietnam War, the number of American troops in Vietnam was approximately

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. 500,000.

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Coupled with the high rate of economic growth in the 1960s, the War on Poverty succeeded in reducing the incidence of poverty overall.

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true

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Following a 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gathering place for homosexuals in New York City's Greenwich Village, five days of rioting occurred and a militant gay rights movement was born.

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true

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In August 1961, the Berlin Wall was erected

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. by the Soviet Union to stem a growing tide of emigrants fleeing from East to West Berlin.

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In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court struck down all laws discriminating against homosexuals as a violation of the right to privacy.

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false

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In May 1963, Birmingham police chief Eugene "Bull" Connor unleashed his forces against this group. The actions deeply affected President Kennedy, causing him to endorse the civil rights movement.

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schoolchildren

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In The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater argued for all of the following except

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support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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In his August 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial delivered to 250,000 black and white Americans, Martin Luther King Jr., declared: "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.' "

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true

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In the "counterculture" of the 1960s, there was, for the first time in American history, a rejection of respectable norms of clothing, language, and sexual behavior.

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true

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In the weeks following passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a joyful calm, mixed with a great celebratory jubilee that included parades, barbecues, and church prayer meetings, characterized the principal response of inner-city African-Americans to the new law.

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false

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Johnson's Great Society failed to reduce poverty in America to any significant degree.

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false

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President Johnson entered office determined to see a substantial civil rights bill passed by Congress.

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true

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President Kennedy entered office determined to rid American foreign policy of its Cold War assumptions.

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false

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President Kennedy's policy toward Latin America, the Alliance for Progress, has generally been regarded as an overwhelming success.

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false

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President Lyndon Johnson grew up in one of the wealthiest sections of United States—the Central Texas Hill Country.

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false

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Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election by the largest landslide in American history.

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false

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Rock festivals, like Woodstock in upstate New York in 1969, brought together hundreds of thousands of women seeking equal rights, equal pay, and equal respect.

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false

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The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited all of the following except

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. racial discrimination in housing rental or sale.

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The 1964 voter registration drive in Mississippi, in which hundreds of white college students from the North participated, was known as

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. Freedom Summer

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The 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared unconstitutional the laws in sixteen states that prohibited interracial marriage was

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Loving v. Virginia.

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The 1968 Kerner Report blamed the widespread inner-city riots—occurring across the country from Harlem to Watts—on

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. segregation, poverty, and "white racism."

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The 1968 military engagement in which Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops launched well-organized uprisings in cities throughout South Vietnam and completely surprised American military leaders was called the Tet offensive.

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true

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The Democratic segregationist challenger for the 1964 presidential election was

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George Wallace of Alabama.

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The Free Speech movement was initiated at the University of Minnesota in 1964.

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false

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The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in marked the first appearance of college students at the forefront of social protest in America.

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true

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's goals included

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replacing the culture of segregation with a "beloved community" of racial justice.

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The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution is the 1965 law that allowed federal officials to register voters.

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false

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that an individual in police custody must be informed of the right to remain silent was

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Miranda v. Arizona.

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The Vietnam War was the longest war in American history and the only military war that the United States has lost.

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true

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The War on Poverty guaranteed an annual income to all Americans, created jobs for the unemployed, promoted unionization, and made it more difficult for businesses to shift production overseas.

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false

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The centerpiece of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was the endeavor to eradicate poverty.

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true

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The civil rights bill and program of domestic liberalism launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson were far less ambitious than President Kennedy's initiatives on these matters

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false

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The controversial Supreme Court ruling, which created a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy was called Griswold v. Connecticut.

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false

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The gelatinous form of gasoline that burns the skin of anyone exposed to it that was dropped by American airplanes on enemy positions during the Vietnam War was called

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. napalm.

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The organization demanding greater Indian tribal self-government and the restoration of economic resources guaranteed in treaties, founded in 1968, was called

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the American Indian Movement.

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The organization that launched the Freedom Rides, by which integrated groups traveled by bus into the Deep South to test compliance with court orders banning segregation on interstate buses and trains was called the

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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

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The social movements of 1960s America were mimicked in countries around the world, with massive antiwar demonstrations, and demands for improved workplaces and women's rights.

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true

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This conservative political group was founded in 1960 after meeting at the estate of William F. Buckley, with a goal of taking control of the Republican Party from leaders who had, in their opinions, embraced some communist doctrines, such as the New Deal.

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Young Americans for Freedom

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This long-time civil rights organizer call a meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, in April 1960, out of which produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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Ella Baker

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This prominent militant group, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, was varied in their focus. While becoming notorious for armed self-defense in response to police brutality, they also ran health clinics, schools, and children's breakfast programs.

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the Black Panther Party

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What was the April 1961 CIA-led invasion of Cuba to topple Fidel Castro that proved to be a total failure when, of the invading force of 1,400, most were captured and more than 100 killed?

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Bay of Pigs

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What was the first gay rights organization in the United States, founded in 1951 by Harry Hay?

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the Mattachine Society

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What was the name for the 1965 immigration law that abandoned the national origins quota system and established racially neutral criteria for immigration?

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Hart-Celler Act

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What was the organization created by the Kennedy administration to aid the economic and educational progress of developing countries?

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the Peace Corps

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What was the title of the 1963 book by Betty Friedan that took as its theme the emptiness of consumer culture, and painted the suburban home as a "comfortable concentration camp" for women?

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The Feminine Mystique

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Which of the following was not a central purpose of President Johnson's Great Society program?

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establishing a federally guaranteed annual income for every family

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Which of the following was not one of the climactic moments of 1968?

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the Berkeley Free Speech movement

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Which was not a goal of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington?

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an end to the use of the Grandfather Clause restricting suffrage

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Which was not an event in the civil rights movement of 1963?

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James Meredith, a black student, entered the University of Mississippi.

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Which was not part of President Johnson's 1965-1967 "Great Society"?

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the disbanding of the national broadcasting network

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Which was the organization that crafted the Port Huron Statement, criticized corporations, unions, and the military-industrial complex, and proclaimed "a democracy of individual participation"?

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

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While not confirmed, it is assumed the assassin of John F. Kennedy was Sirhan Sirhan.

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false

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While serving a nine-day jail term in 1963 for violating a ban on demonstrations, Martin Luther King Jr., wrote his eloquent plea for racial justice, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

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true

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Who was the leader of the United Farm Workers (UFW)—as much a movement for civil rights as a campaign for economic betterment—who, beginning in 1965, led nonviolent protests, including fasts, marches, and a national boycott of California grapes?

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César Chavez

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Who was the leading African-American known for his fiery oratory, insistence that blacks control the political and economic resources of their communities, and who was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam after he formed his own Organization of Afro-American Unity?

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Malcolm X

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Who was the marine biologist whose book Silent Spring spelled out how the insecticide DDT kills birds and other animals and causes sickness among humans, and who launched the modern environmental movement?

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Rachel Carson

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With the sit-ins, college students stepped onto the stage of American history as a leading force for social change.

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true

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In a single week in June 1963, more than 15,000 people were arrested in 186 cities across the United States in civil rights demonstrations, with Birmingham, Alabama, as the citadel of segregation.

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true

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