US HISTORY EXAM 3
The Sixties Ch.27
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Administration
1. Which of the following was the president that narrowly won the 1960 United States presidential
election? He was elected as the first catholic president and was relatively inexperienced, but a
series of televised debates played a critical role in his victory.
a. John Kennedy
b. Lyndon Johnson
c. Richard Nixon
d. Gerald Ford
2. Who were Fidel Castro and Ernesto (Che) Guevara?
a. They organized the Table Grape Strike in California
b. They were the architects of the Cuban Revolution
c. They organized non-violent methods of civil disobedience
d. They were supporters of the Vietnam war
3. What was the goal of Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs operation?
a. To help revolutionary socialist, Fidel Castro, overthrow the capitalist government of Cuba
b. To overthrow the socialist revolutionary of Cuba, Fidel Castro, and install a capitalist
leader
c. To help Fidel Castro fight against the Soviet Union
d. To help the Soviet Union overthrow the government of Fidel Castro
4. What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a. The overthrowing of the Fulgencio Batista regime in Cuba to establish a Marxist
government
b. Castro’s invitation to the Soviet Union to install missiles to receive economic backing
from the U.S.S.R.
c. Hostile relations between the United States and Cuba because of the failed Bay of Pigs
operation
d. All of the above
5. What were the Greensboro “Sit-Ins” in 1960?
, a. Black students sought service at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s Department Store and
became a template for non-violent resistance; It marked an early success for the civil
rights movement.
b. Student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) rode interstate buses into
the segregated Southern United States: Their goal was to end segregation on buses and
public accommodations.
c. A desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia that was led
primarily by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), but also gained
support from other groups including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
d. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
launched a campaign with local Pastor Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian
Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) to undermine the city's system of racial
segregation.
6. What were the Freedom Rides in 1961?
a. Black students sought service at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s Department Store and
became a template for non-violent resistance; It marked an early success for the civil
rights movement.
b. Student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) rode interstate buses into
the segregated Southern United States: Their goal was to end segregation on buses and
public accommodations.
c. A desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia that was led
primarily by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), but also gained
support from other groups including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
d. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
launched a campaign with local Pastor Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian
Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) to undermine the city's system of racial
segregation.
7. How did the first freedom rides end?
a. Angry mobs composed of KKK members attacked the riders in Birmingham, Alabama
and burned one of the buses and beat the activists who escaped
b. The riders were arrested in Montgomery, Alabama
c. The ride was peaceful and ignored by both southerners and northern media
d. The ride drew protests and media attention, but there was no violence
8. What was The Albany Movement in 1961?
, a. Black students sought service at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s Department Store and
became a template for non-violent resistance; It marked an early success for the civil
rights movement.
b. Student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) rode interstate buses into
the segregated Southern United States: Their goal was to end segregation on buses and
public accommodations.
c. A desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Georgia that was led primarily by
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), but also gained support from
other groups including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
d. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
launched a campaign with local Pastor Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian
Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) to undermine the city's system of racial
segregation.
9. The Albany Movement, centered in Georgia, drew on Christian commitments to social justice and
united all of the following Civil Rights groups EXCEPT -
a. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
b. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
c. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
d. The Southern Baptist Convention
10. Who was James Meredith?
a. He was a pro-segregation Democrat elected governor of Alabama who is known for
preventing two black students from enrolling in the University of Alabama; His famous
quote he said as he was running governor is, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow ,
segregation forever."
b. He was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the
United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968
c. He was the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi and is noted for
leading the 1966 “March Against Fear” from Memphis to Jackson in protest of the
physical violence that African-Americans faced while exercising their right to vote
d. He was a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) whose murder in 1963 prompted President John F. Kennedy to ask
Congress for a comprehensive civil rights bill
11. Why did King write "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
a. To occupy his time while he is waiting to be released from jail
b. To respond to well-intentioned criticism of the civil rights movement
c. To make his argument to everyone who will read the letter after its publication
d. All of the above
The Sixties Ch.27
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Administration
1. Which of the following was the president that narrowly won the 1960 United States presidential
election? He was elected as the first catholic president and was relatively inexperienced, but a
series of televised debates played a critical role in his victory.
a. John Kennedy
b. Lyndon Johnson
c. Richard Nixon
d. Gerald Ford
2. Who were Fidel Castro and Ernesto (Che) Guevara?
a. They organized the Table Grape Strike in California
b. They were the architects of the Cuban Revolution
c. They organized non-violent methods of civil disobedience
d. They were supporters of the Vietnam war
3. What was the goal of Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs operation?
a. To help revolutionary socialist, Fidel Castro, overthrow the capitalist government of Cuba
b. To overthrow the socialist revolutionary of Cuba, Fidel Castro, and install a capitalist
leader
c. To help Fidel Castro fight against the Soviet Union
d. To help the Soviet Union overthrow the government of Fidel Castro
4. What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a. The overthrowing of the Fulgencio Batista regime in Cuba to establish a Marxist
government
b. Castro’s invitation to the Soviet Union to install missiles to receive economic backing
from the U.S.S.R.
c. Hostile relations between the United States and Cuba because of the failed Bay of Pigs
operation
d. All of the above
5. What were the Greensboro “Sit-Ins” in 1960?
, a. Black students sought service at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s Department Store and
became a template for non-violent resistance; It marked an early success for the civil
rights movement.
b. Student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) rode interstate buses into
the segregated Southern United States: Their goal was to end segregation on buses and
public accommodations.
c. A desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia that was led
primarily by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), but also gained
support from other groups including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
d. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
launched a campaign with local Pastor Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian
Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) to undermine the city's system of racial
segregation.
6. What were the Freedom Rides in 1961?
a. Black students sought service at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s Department Store and
became a template for non-violent resistance; It marked an early success for the civil
rights movement.
b. Student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) rode interstate buses into
the segregated Southern United States: Their goal was to end segregation on buses and
public accommodations.
c. A desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia that was led
primarily by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), but also gained
support from other groups including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
d. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
launched a campaign with local Pastor Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian
Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) to undermine the city's system of racial
segregation.
7. How did the first freedom rides end?
a. Angry mobs composed of KKK members attacked the riders in Birmingham, Alabama
and burned one of the buses and beat the activists who escaped
b. The riders were arrested in Montgomery, Alabama
c. The ride was peaceful and ignored by both southerners and northern media
d. The ride drew protests and media attention, but there was no violence
8. What was The Albany Movement in 1961?
, a. Black students sought service at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s Department Store and
became a template for non-violent resistance; It marked an early success for the civil
rights movement.
b. Student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) rode interstate buses into
the segregated Southern United States: Their goal was to end segregation on buses and
public accommodations.
c. A desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Georgia that was led primarily by
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), but also gained support from
other groups including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
d. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
launched a campaign with local Pastor Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian
Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) to undermine the city's system of racial
segregation.
9. The Albany Movement, centered in Georgia, drew on Christian commitments to social justice and
united all of the following Civil Rights groups EXCEPT -
a. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
b. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
c. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
d. The Southern Baptist Convention
10. Who was James Meredith?
a. He was a pro-segregation Democrat elected governor of Alabama who is known for
preventing two black students from enrolling in the University of Alabama; His famous
quote he said as he was running governor is, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow ,
segregation forever."
b. He was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the
United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968
c. He was the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi and is noted for
leading the 1966 “March Against Fear” from Memphis to Jackson in protest of the
physical violence that African-Americans faced while exercising their right to vote
d. He was a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) whose murder in 1963 prompted President John F. Kennedy to ask
Congress for a comprehensive civil rights bill
11. Why did King write "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
a. To occupy his time while he is waiting to be released from jail
b. To respond to well-intentioned criticism of the civil rights movement
c. To make his argument to everyone who will read the letter after its publication
d. All of the above
