The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned which of the following precedents?
Separate but equal established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Which Egyptian leader seized the Suez Canal in July 1956?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Which of the following describes higher education in the United States between 1940 and 1960?
It became increasingly available to veterans, the middle class, and African Americans.
What was Levittown, New York?
An example of mass-produced affordable housing in the suburbs
Which new civil rights organization chose Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader in January of 1957?
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
How did union membership as a percentage of the labor force in the United States change during the 1950s?
It peaked at just over 27 percent in 1957.
In the 1950s, the CIA intervened in the internal affairs of which of the following countries?
Guatemala
Who wrote the best-selling books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female?
Alfred Kinsey
Why did whites in Mississippi murder fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in 1955?
He allegedly whistled at a white woman.
The three-part program for compensating, “terminating,” and relocating Native Americans reflected the Eisenhower administration's commitment to
limiting the scope of federal government activity.
In what way did the civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s differ from previous efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States?
It involved masses of people who used civil disobedience to bring about change.
What was the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned Americans about before he left office?
An association between the military and defense contractors to spend more money on increasingly powerful weapons systems
The revolution in the visual arts that began in New York City in the 1950s
stressed energy and spontaneity over recognizable forms.
What was one unintended consequence of the federal government's program to relocate Native Americans?
A militant pan-Indian movement emerged two decades later.
The radical feminist movement differed from the National Organization for Women and other mainstream feminist organizations in that
radical feminists sought fundamental changes in the nation's institutions.
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