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What prompted African Americans to leave the South at the same time that the southern economy began to boom?
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There were fewer jobs for unskilled workers.
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What best describes the strategy that the NAACP adopted under Thurgood Marshall?
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A legal strategy
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How did the strategies employed by civil rights activists in the
Montgomery bus boycott, and the desegregation of the Little Rock schools represent a new chapter in the civil rights movement?
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They employed grassroots mobilization
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What was the most important reason why Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy ultimately embraced civil rights as an issue?
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They were pushed by violent confrontation.
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What was the most important reason why the civil rights movement began to shift toward black power?
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Young people did not see tangible change.
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How might urban rioting have affected Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs?
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It may have resulted in more support for a federal interventionist government.
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What was the most important political influence on the leaders of groups like SDS and the Free Speech Movement?
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The civil rights movement
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In what way were the hippies different from activists in organizations such as SDS?
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Hippies were less politically involved.
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To what did the counterculture of the 1960s give way in the 1970s and 1980s?
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Materialism and political conservatism
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Why did the Vietcong renew its warfare in the South after Ho Chi Minh came to power in North Vietnam?
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To remove the American-supported dictator Diem
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What was the most important reason why Lyndon B. Johnson chose a strategy of escalation in 1965?
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His military advisors argued that escalation was the only way to win in Vietnam.
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Why do you think that Johnson's policy of escalation in Vietnam did not work?
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It failed to consider the resolve of the Vietcong.
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What was the most important cause of the shift from an embrace of assimilation to an embrace of difference by minority groups?
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The failure of laws to counter discrimination
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What was the clearest way in which lawmakers showed the national
movement from an embrace of individual rights to an embrace of group
rights? |
Instituting affirmative action
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What do you think the nation's long-term political response was to
expressions of identity politics as seen in the gay liberation movement,
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feminist movement, and black nationalism, among others? |
A conservative political backlash
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