1. Which laws called for strict separation of the races in the South?
anti-discrimination laws
Plessy v. Ferguson laws
Jim Crow laws
boycott laws


2. Civil rights activists targeted segregation in interstate transportation
because they knew that the states regulated interstate transportation.
because travel between states was subject to federal regulation.
despite the fact that most southern whites supported their efforts.
despite the fact that trains and buses rarely crossed state lines.


3. Why did Lyndon Johnson’s support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 surprise many Americans?
He had forcefully opposed the efforts of the freedom riders.
He had supported the Birmingham jailing of Martin Luther King, Jr.
He had earlier threatened to veto the bill.
He was a Southerner with an unimpressive record on race issues.


4. In response to the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy
offered to remove U.S. missiles from Great Britain.
approved a naval quarantine of Cuba.
ordered that the Berlin Wall be destroyed.
sent a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles to invade Cuba.


5. Why did President Eisenhower support the new anticommunist government of South Vietnam?
He was committed to the struggle against communism.
He wanted to bring American soldiers home.
He thought the government of North Vietnam was fascist.
He wanted to make South Vietnam a U.S. colony.

6. In what way was the Tet Offensive a strategic blow to the Americans?
The South Vietnamese refused to help U.S. forces in the fighting.
It sparked uprisings that spread throughout South Vietnam.
The communists proved their will and ability to keep fighting.
The North Vietnamese captured key cities in South Vietnam.


7. The United States ended its involvement in the Vietnam War because
Vietnamization failed amid of growing dissent in the United States.
the North Vietnamese threatened to start using nuclear weapons.
the U.S. defeat at My Lai proved that victory was impossible.
U.S. losses were so high when North Vietnam captured Saigon.


8. The high point of President Nixon’s foreign policy efforts was
the defeat of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with the Soviets.
South Vietnam’s surprise victory after the Paris Peace Accords.
his trip to China, which led to official recognition of that country.
bringing a "new federalism" to the U.S. government.


9. The events that led to the Montgomery bus boycott were set in motion
when Martin Luther King, Jr., called for the boycott.
when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.
before the Supreme Court handed down Brown v. Board of Education.
after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957.


10. In 1964, students poured into Mississippi to take part in th
Freedom Summer.
march on Selma.
freedom rides.
Birmingham protests.


11. John F. Kennedy’s “flexible response” policy was intended to
prepare the nation for a war on poverty.
prepare the nation to fight any size or type of conflict.
provide a much-needed boost to the nation’s economy.
send American volunteers to assist developing countries.


12. In addition to areas of Vietnam, what other areas of French Indochina were under French control in 1954?
Burma and China
Thailand and Cambodia
Cambodia and Laos.
Burma and Laos.