1960’s Review
Study your 1960’s inline.
Study your African American Notes.
People and Terms
a. Ngo Diem
b. Ho Chi Minh
c. Lee Harvey Oswald
d. Sirhan Sirhan
e. James Earl Ray
f. Charles Manson
g. Jackie Kennedy Onasis
h. Robert Kennedy
i. John Lennon
j. Martin Luther King Jr.
k. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
l. Domino Effect
m. Tet Offensive
n. Vietnamization
o. Pentagon Papers
p. Booker T. Washington
q. George Washington Carver
r. Needham Roberts
s. Marcus Garvey
t. Thurgood Marshall
u. James Weldon Johnson
v. Mary McLeod Bethune
w. Michael Jordan
x. Malcolm X
y. Colin Powell
Text Reading
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1.The NAACP worked to end
a. segregation.
b. civil disobedience.
c. integration.
d. boycotting.
2.Thurgood Marshall argued before the Supreme Court that segregated schools violated this amendment to
the Constitution.
a. Fourteenth Amendment
b. Twentieth Amendment
c. Nineteenth Amendment
d. Fifteenth Amendment
3.The refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust is called
a. integration.
b. boycotting.
c. segregation.
d. civil disobedience.
4.This man said, "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
a. Martin Luther King, Jr.
b. Malcolm X
c. John F. Kennedy
d. Richard M. Nixon
5.This group investigated John F. Kennedy's assassination.
a. Kennedy Commission
b. Warren Commission
c. Oswald's Committee
d. Assassination Committee
6.This program helped fund public housing projects.
a. VISTA
b. Upward Bound
c. Model Cities
d. HUD
7.On April 4, 1968, this great leader was assassinated.
a. Martin Luther King, Jr.
b. Malcolm X
c. Robert Kennedy
d. John F. Kennedy
8.This organization fought for equal rights for women in all aspects of life.
a. VISTA
b. NAACP
c. NOW
d. CORE
9.The first woman was appointed to the Supreme Court in
a. 1894.
b. 1981.
c. 1956.
d. 1911.
10.Cesar Chavez organized this group of Hispanics into the UFW.
a. truck drivers
b. schoolteachers
c. farm owners
d. farmworkers
11.This chief lawyer for the NAACP decided to challenge the idea of "separate but equal."
a. Malcolm X
b. Stokely Carmichael
c. Martin Luther King, Jr.
d. Thurgood Marshall
12.The arrest of Rosa Parks led to
a. sit-ins at lunch counters.
b. a boycott of city buses.
c. riots in Watts.
d. integration of schools.
13.This leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference emphasized nonviolent protests.
a. Malcolm X
b. Thurgood Marshall
c. Martin Luther King, Jr.
d. Rosa Parks
14.President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an unconditional war on
a. Communists.
b. integration.
c. segregation.
d. poverty.
15.This program helps pay for medical care for senior citizens.
a. Medicare
b. VISTA
c. Upward Bound
d. Medicaid
16.This governor tried to block the entrance of James Meredith into the University of Mississippi.
a. Orval Faubus
b. Ross Barnett
c. Robert Kennedy
d. George Wallace
17.Leader of the Black Muslims, this person emerged as an important voice for some African Americans.
a. Martin Luther King, Jr.
b. Stokely Carmichael
c. Malcolm X
d. Ella Baker
18.The first of a series of racial riots that hit cities in the summers of 1965, 1966, and 1967 was in
a. Baltimore, Maryland.
b. New Orleans, Louisiana.
c. Harlem in New York City.
d. Watts in Los Angeles.
19.The Equal Rights Amendment
a. passed in 1971.
b. was supported by all states.
c. was never ratified.
d. became part of the Constitution.
20.This Native American organization protested broken treaties and civil rights violations.
a. AIM
b. CORE
c. VISTA
d. NAACP