1) In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which:   1

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1) In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which:

	1.	Had the full support of Congress
	2.	Was immediately enforced in Alabama
	3.	Prohibited racial discrimination in employment and public institutions
	4.	Was passed over President Johnson's veto

2.  This former US Attorney General and most Progressive of the Kennedy family was the favored Democratic presidential candidate in June, 1968:

	1.	Joseph Kennedy
	2.	Edward Kennedy
	3.	Robert Kennedy
	4.	John Fitzgerald Kennedy

3.  Bob Dylan's electric performance of Maggie's Farm and Like a Rolling Stone at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival famously merged these two musical traditions:

	1.	Rock and Opera
	2.	Folk and Rock n' Roll
	3.	Jazz and Rhythm n' Blues
	4.	Hip hop and Punk

4.  The Students For Democratic Society 1962 Port Huron Statement declared the time had come for social change and greater participatory democracy.

 True

 False

5.  with the fall of Saigon in 1975:

	1.	North Vietnam became communist
	2.	North Vietnam became capitalist
	3.	South Vietnam became communist
	4.	South Vietnam became capitalist

6.  Pulitzer Prize winning lyricist, Presidential Medal of freedom recipient, and reluctant 1960s icon, his revolutionary musical innovations lay the cultural foundation for the late 20th century Western zeitgeist (spirit of the age):

	1.	Elvis Presley
	2.	Bob Dylan
	3.	Gerry Garcia
	4.	John Lennon

7. The 1965 Voting Rights Act:

	1.	Was overturned by the Supreme Court
	2.	Forbade federal involvement in state voter registration
	3.	Empowered federal officials to oversee voter registration
	4.	Was vetoed by Lyndon Johnson

8. The 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision:

	1.	Legalized inter-racial marriages
	2.	Legalized  U.S. abortion rights
	3.	Declared school prayer unconsitutional
	4.	Resulted in little opposition

9. In the last three decades of the 20th C., the Moral Majority:

	1.	Feared Christian family values were being undermined in America
	2.	Came to approve of Roe V. Wade
	3.	Lobbied for homosexual rights
	4.	Pressed local school districts for more sex education in high schools

10. U.S. military involvement in the decades long conflict known as the Vietnam War ostensibly protected South Vietnam from this communist leader's nationalist unification campaign:

	1.	Mao Tse Tung
	2.	Ho Chi Minh
	3.	Chiang Kai Shek
	4.	Mikael Gorbachev

11. U.S. military involvement in Vietnam increased dramatically after President Lyndon Johnson revealed this alleged 1964 attack:

	1.	The Bay of Pigs Incident
	2.	The Tet Offensive
	3.	The Bombing of Cambodia
	4.	The Gulf of Tonkin Incident

 

 

12. Still debated today, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court legalized womens' rights to abortion privacy in:

	1.	Plessy V. Ferguson
	2.	Brown V. Board of Education
	3.	Stenberg V. Carhart
	4.	Roe V. Wade

13. This large, deadly, 1965 riot erupted in the wake of a dispute over a young man's DWI arrest by Los Angeles police:

	1.	Detroit Riots
	2.	Watts Riots
	3.	Kent State Riots
	4.	Paris Riots

 

14.  By 1968, the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam:

	1.	exceeded 500,000
	2.	Was much less than what the American public demanded
	3.	Was less than 1965
	4.	Was greatly reduced after Johnson declared his candidacy for a second presidential term