Author Question: The coalition of student-based organizations that attacked racial discrimination, poverty, and the ... (Read 85 times)

panfilo · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

In The Port Huron Statement of 1962, what group of people was activist Tom Hayden urging to join the protest movement when he stated that we are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities,

looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit? A) the silent majority
B) the baby boom generation
C) hippies
D) young conservatives

Question 2

After the American Revolution, the United States encountered new economic problems including a trade deficit with Britain which resulted from __________.

A) expenses for reimbursing Loyalists for confiscated property
B) continuing boycotts
C) the desire for luxury goods that had been unavailable during the war
D) the refusal of banks to extend credit

Question 3

Proponents of welfare capitalism believed that __________.

A) the theory of scientific management had to be entirely rejected
B) the federal government should provide unemployment insurance
C) corporations could build a loyal workforce by providing certain benefits
D) the national government should be more active in programs of social reform

Question 4

The portrayal of the children in the illustration of the Cooke sisters' schoolroom was most likely intended to __________.

A) promote desegregated schools
B) counter popular views of African Americans as uncivilized
C) reveal the failures of the Freedmen's Bureau
D) demonstrate the superiority of white teachers

Question 5

The coalition of student-based organizations that attacked racial discrimination, poverty, and the war in Vietnam during the 1960s was known as __________.

A) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
B) Students for a Democratic Society
C) the New Left
D) Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)