The Civil Rights Movement Begins

Question 1

Why did students at Kent State University in Ohio protest the bombing of Cambodia?

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They thought it escalated a war that the United States was supposedly withdrawing from.

Question 2

The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was the target of protests by

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anti-war Democrats.

Question 3

After the United States withdrew from Vietnam in 1973,

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the fighting continued until Vietnam became united under a Communist government.

Question 4

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It was a plan to bring US troops home gradually.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago?

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Anti-war Democrats had no candidate, so they protested at the convention.

Question 6

Whom did Nixon refer to as the “silent majority”?

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supporters of the Vietnam War

Question 7

The 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy

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robbed anti-war Americans of their leading candidate.

Question 8

Why did President Johnson decide not to run for reelection in 1968?

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Public opposition to the Vietnam War had made him unpopular.

Question 9

The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified during the Vietnam War,

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lowered the voting age to eighteen.

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