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History 1302 Final Exam Questions And Answers 2023
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History 1302 Final Exam Questions And Answers 2023Little Rock 1957 - correct answer-Ike forced to send National Guard to escort black children to school to quell riots and resistance (first time since Reconstruction that troops used in the south to enforce Constitution); resistance by white community (private schools)
Freedom Riders - correct answer-Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
James Meredith - correct answer-He was a civil rights advocate who spurred a riot at the University of Mississippi. The riot was caused by angry whites who did not want Meredith to register at the university. The result was forced government action, showing
that segregation was no longer government policy.
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" - correct answer-A letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. after he had been arrested when he took part in a nonviolent march against segregation. He was disappointed more Christians didn't speak out against racism.
March on Washington 1963 - correct answer-intention of this was to get a civil rights act,
250,000 people showed up; MLK spoke, JFK said there should be a civil rights act; signed by Lyndon Johnson (kennedy's v.p.)
"I have a dream" - correct answer-Given August 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Act 1964 - correct answer-This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.
Voting Rights Act 1965 - correct answer-1965; invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disenfranchised blacks; as more blacks became politically active and elected black representatives, it rboguth jobs, contracts, and facilities and services for the black community, encouraging greater social equality and decreasing the wealth and education gap
Lyndon Johnson - correct answer-signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965. he had a war on poverty in his agenda. in an attempt to win, he set a few goals, including the great society, the economic opportunity act, and other programs that provided food stamps and welfare to needy famillies. he also created a department of housing and urban development. his most important legislation was probably medicare and medicaid. Great Society - correct answer-President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education.
War on Poverty - correct answer-President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's to provide greater social services for the poor and elderly
Election of 1964 - correct answer-Lyndon B. Johnson (D) vs. Barry Goldwater (R). Johnson won by a landslide and used this election to push through even more Great Society progressive legislation
Miranda v. Arizona - correct answer-1966 Supreme Court decision that sets guidelines for police questioning of accused persons to protect them against self-incrimination and to protect their right to counsel.
SDS - correct answer-Students for a Democratic Society-an antiestablishment New Left group, founded in 1960, this group charged that corporations and large government institutions had taken over America; they called for a restoration of "participatory democracy" and greater individual freedom
Free Speech Movement - correct answer-led by Berkley college students who were fighting the restriction of free speech
Counter culture - correct answer-group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of culture patterns
Beats - correct answer-a United States youth subculture of the 1950s
Hippies - correct answer-believed in anti-materalism, free use of drugs, they had a casual attitude toward sex and anti-conformity, (1960s) practiced free love and took drugs, flocked to San Francisco- low rent/interracial, they lived in communal "crash pads", smoked marijuana and took LSD, sexual revolution, new counter culture, Protestors who influenced US involvement in Vietnam
Deadheads - correct answer-This was the term that referred to The Grateful Dead's fan base.
Bob Dylan - correct answer-A twentieth-century American folksinger and songwriter. His
music, with its strong note of social protest, was especially popular during the 1960s, when he wrote songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," and "Like a Rolling Stone."
Woodstock - correct answer-a free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969
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