Lesson 2H.2.2

2H.2.2 Protest and reaction, 1963–72 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 8

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  1. In which year was African American activist Malcolm X assassinated?

    • 1965
    • 1968
    • 1972
    • 1963
  2. Which Alabama city was the starting point for the 1965 voting rights marches to Montgomery?

    • Little Rock
    • Greensboro
    • Birmingham
    • Selma
  3. Which voting obstacle was outlawed by the US Voting Rights Act of 1965?

    • Minimum age limits
    • Literacy tests
    • Postal voting
    • Secret ballots
  4. Which organisation, founded in 1966, advocated armed Black self-defence and social programmes?

    • SNCC
    • Black Panther Party
    • NAACP
    • Nation of Islam
  5. What issue was targeted by Martin Luther King's 1966 campaign in Chicago?

    • Housing discrimination
    • School desegregation
    • Bus segregation
    • Voting rights
  6. What was the primary focus of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programme?

    • Economic deregulation
    • Domestic social reform
    • Space exploration expansion
    • Foreign military expansion
  7. Which two programmes created in 1965 provided federal health care for elderly and low-income Americans?

    • Medicare and Medicaid
    • Social Security, Welfare
    • TRICARE, Medicaid
    • Obamacare, Medigap
  8. Which group did Richard Nixon target with his 'silent majority' speech in 1969?

    • Anti-war student activists
    • Civil rights leaders
    • Democratic congressmen
    • Conservative non-protesters
  9. Which May 1970 event triggered nationwide student protests across US university campuses?

    • Tet Offensive
    • Kent State shootings
    • Stonewall riots
    • My Lai massacre
  10. Which campaign was galvanised by the June 1969 Stonewall riots in New York?

    • Anti-war movement
    • Women's rights movement
    • Civil rights movement
    • Gay liberation movement
  11. Which movement was most closely associated with the 1969 Woodstock festival?

    • Youth counter-culture
    • Civil rights movement
    • Neoconservatism
    • Christian fundamentalism
  12. What was the main goal of the National Organization for Women, founded in 1966?

    • Traditional gender roles
    • Anti-war campaigning
    • Prohibition of alcohol
    • Women's equality
  13. Which tactic was famously used by Cesar Chavez to campaign for farm workers' rights?

    • Delano grape boycott
    • Lunch counter sit-ins
    • Freedom Rides
    • Montgomery bus boycott
  14. What was the primary focus of Martin Luther King Jr.'s campaigns in 1967–68?

    • Voting rights legislation
    • Economic inequality
    • School desegregation
    • Bus boycotts
  15. How did President Richard Nixon approach Johnson's Great Society programmes?

    • Left them untouched
    • Expanded them greatly
    • Abolished them completely
    • Scaled them back
  16. What did the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorise President Johnson to do?

    • Declare war formally
    • Deploy nuclear weapons
    • Escalate military action
    • Withdraw US forces
  17. Which 1968 law banned discrimination in the sale and rental of US housing?

    • Fair Housing Act
    • Voting Rights Act
    • Civil Rights Act
    • Equal Pay Act
  18. Which movement was Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) a leading group in?

    • The Alt-Right
    • The New Left
    • The Silent Majority
    • The Moral Majority
  19. Which candidate won the US presidential election of 1968?

    • George Wallace
    • Richard Nixon
    • Hubert Humphrey
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
  20. Which 1968 offensive severely damaged public support for the Vietnam War?

    • Easter Offensive
    • Tet Offensive
    • Rolling Thunder
    • My Lai Operation

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