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Am Hist Ch24-25 Unit
American History Chapter 24-25 Unit Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| was organized in response to arrest of Rosa Parks. | bus boycott |
| MLK derived much of his philosophy from____. | Mohandas Ghandi |
| CORE successfully used____to integrate restaurants. | sit-ins |
| X in Malcolm X's name stood for___. | the family name of his African ancestors who had been enslaved. |
| T/F President Eisenhower was not for a rapid roll back of segregation laws; he believed racism should end gradually. | True |
| T/F JFK promised in his campaign to actively support civil rights. | True |
| MLK believed in_____to end segregation. | nonviolence |
| Freedom riders were organized to draw attention to the South's refusal to_____. | integrate bus terminals |
| Until 1965, the civil rights movement focused on_____rather than economic and social issues. | segregation and voting rights |
| encouraged whites Southerners to defy court rulings. | Southern Manifesto |
| was formed by student activists. | SNCC |
| was given by MLK at the March on Washington. | "I Have a Dream" speech |
| T/F JFK was not the first President since Reconstruction to send Federal troops into the South to protect the rights of African Americans. | True |
| protest because African Americans were the majority, but only a fraction of them was registered to vote. | Selma AL march |
| a militant black group who believed violence and revolution were necessary. | Black Panthers |
| segregation by custom and tradition rather than by law. | Defacto segregation |
| segregation laws in the South. | "Jim Crow" laws |
| 1896, created the separate-but-equal doctrine. | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. | Brown v. Board of Education |
| exclusion of African Americans from juries violated their rights to equal protection under the law. | Norris v. Alabama |
| segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional. | Morgan v. Virginia |
| state law schools had to admit qualified African American applicants even if parallel black law schools existed. | Sweatt v. Painter |
| 2 events that convinced Truman to help France in Vietnam: | 1. Fall of China to Communism 2. Outbreak of Korean War |
| President Johnson made the Vietnam War very hard to win by_____. | placing limits on the war. |
| T/F College students were put at risks because the need for soldiers in vietnam. | True |
| Congress gave its war powers to the President with the____. | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| T/F As a whole Americans were ungrateful to soldiers returning from Vietnam. | True |
| destroy landscape where Vietcong could not hide in the jungles. | Goal of agent orange |
| communist rebels supported by the North Vietnamese government. | Vietcong |
| revealed that the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam. | Pentagon Papers |
| Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War helped create a_____. | credibility gap |
| Main reason for President Johnson not ordering a full-scale invasion of North Vietnam_____. | was fear that it would bring China into the war |
| Kennedy felt he needed to stand up to Communism in Vietnam because many Republicans blamed_____. | the Truman administration for losing China to Communism |
| was a major turning point in Vietnam War because Communist forces scored a major political victory. | Tet Offensive |
| massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by American troops. | My Lai |
| chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs. | Agent Orange |
| strategy the led troops to count bodies after battles. | War of Attrition |
| improving relations with the Soviet Union and China to persuade them to cut back their aid to North Vietnam. | Linkage |
| temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th Parallel. | Geneva Accords |
| soldier whose fate was undetermined. | MIA |
| jellied gasoline that explodes on contact | Napalm |
| named Ho Chi Minh City after reunification. | Saigon |
| forces made up of North and South Vietnamese, but supplied by North Vietnam. | Vietcong |
| fear that a Communist Vietnam would lead to other Southeast Asian Communist governments. | Domino Theory |
| 2 divisions of people in nation during Vietnam: | "doves" were those who wanted to withdraw from the war and "hawks" were those who wanted to stay and fight. |
| From late 1800's to____were collectively known as French Indochina. | WWII, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia |
| guerilla army organized by Ho Chi Minh to reunify Vietnam. | Vietcong |
| network of jungle paths used by North Vietnam to send arms and supplies. | Ho Chi Minh Trail |