Question 1
What two firsts raised African Americans' expectations?
A) Jackie Robinson winning baseball's Rookie of the Year award and Ralph Bunche receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
B) civil rights legislation and voluntary desegregation in Alabama
C) anti-lynching legislation and a civil rights division in the Justice Department
D) the election of Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and unions accepting blacks
Question 2
Why did Truman issue an executive order barring segregation in the armed forces?
A) to attract African American voters for the 1948 election
B) because he was deeply committed to civil rights
C) to undercut Strom Thurmond's independent candidacy
D) because officers in the military were requesting integration
Question 3
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, because she refused to:
A) pay her fare up front and re-enter the bus from the back.
B) ride on a blacks-only bus.
C) yield her seat to a white passenger.
D) sit in the back of the bus.
Question 4
In 1953, a potential thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations appeared possible because:
A) Joseph Stalin died.
B) Khrushchev was replaced by a more moderate collective leadership.
C) Eisenhower, unlike Truman, believed the two nations had too much in common to be enemies.
D) a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty eased the arms race.
Question 5
By 1960, about what percentage of American households had televisions?
A) 50
B) 75
C) 90
D) 99
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