Practice Test

Question 1

When it first formed in 1960, the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee

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A: did not promote the use of aggressive action.

Question 2

Which statement best explains why the National Organization for Women included child care and maternity leave in their Bill of Rights for Women?

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B: The organization recognized that working mothers faced special problems.

Question 3

Which best describes the NAACP’s strategy for ending segregation in public schools?

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B: The NAACP challenged segregation by filing lawsuits in several states.

Question 4

The first draft of the Civil Rights Act

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C: allowed segregation to continue in some public locations.

Question 5

Although Brown v. Board of Education established that the segregation of schools was unconstitutional,

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A: many white Southerners strongly resisted integration.

Question 6

Who urged Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act as part of his vision for a “Great Society”?

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C: Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 7

One reason President Johnson created the Great Society program was to

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A: carry on the social reform goals of his predecessor.

Question 8

What action did President Johnson take regarding President Kennedy’s proposed Civil Rights Act?

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C: He used public sympathy to push it through Congress.

Question 9

Which best describes the ideas of Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama?

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D: Wallace wanted to block integration at the University of Alabama.

Question 10

Which best describes how Brown v. Board of Education affected the United States?

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D: It dealt a blow to segregation in public facilities.

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