1. Unit 6 Review Questions

2. In Addition to the Unit 6 Outline: 1. What were President Truman’s early attempts at civil rights/desegregation? 2. Who were the “Freedom Riders” and where did they encounter problems? 3. Why was President Kennedy initially reluctant to support civil rights? 4. What areas of civil rights were addressed by which Civil Rights Acts (1964, 1965, 1968)? 5. On what grounds was “affirmative action” sometimes opposed?

3. 6. What were the beliefs of Malcolm X? 7. What did “black power” advocates want? 8. What were Cesar Chavez’s goals and strategies? 9. What were the goals and strategies of the feminist movement? 10. What tools did the feminists borrow from the civil rights movement? 11. Why did the ERA fail? 12. Who opposed ERA and why? 13. Who were the first two men to walk on the moon in 1969?

4. 14. Describe “Woodstock” and the 1960s youth counterculture. 15. Who wrote “Silent Spring”? 16. Why did Watergate occur? 17. What were its consequences? 18. What was Nixon’s biggest achievement if foreign affairs? 19. Why did Ford pardon Nixon? 20. Why was President Fords having trouble with the economy?

5. 21. What was the effect of OPEC’s embargo on oil to the U.S.? 22. What was Carter’s appeal in the 1976 election? 23. How did the Iran hostage crisis effect his popularity? 24. What was Carter’s role in the Camp David Accords? 25. What was the “New Right” in the Republican (conservative) Party? 26. What were their causes?

6. 27. What caused increased spending During the Reagan presidency? 28. What were his economic policies? 29. What did Reagan’s critics say? 30. Who was Sandra Day O’Connor? 31. What happened with U.S.- USSR relations during the latter part of his presidency? 32. The signing of an arms-control agreement ended what period in U.S. history?

7. 33. Why was the Persian Gulf War fought? 34. What were Clinton’s reform goals? 35. What were his political problems? 36. What threats are there to Social Security and Medicare? 37. What has happened with global trade in recent years? 38. What was the purpose of NAFTA?