Part One:
Cold War Era America
1945-1990
Respond to 5 of the following questions
on a separate sheet(s) using your notes, text, and knowledge. Be
sure to put your name and the question numbers on your paper. (25 points)
Part Two:
The Baby Boom Era
1946-1964
Respond to 5 of the following questions
on a separate sheet(s) using your notes, text, and knowledge. Be
sure to put your name and the question numbers on your paper. (25 points)
Part
3:
The
Civil Rights Movement
1947-1975
Name:
_____________________________
In the
space provided, write the vocabulary term that best matches each description.
1.
______________________ People who traveled in buses through the South to draw
attention to segregation of bus station facilities.
2.
______________________ A woman famously arrested for refusing to give up her bus
seat to a white rider.
3.
______________________ A movement among African Americans that many critics
believed was a call to violent action and that created a split in the civil
rights movement.
4.
______________________ Group founded in 1909 to further the cause of civil
rights.
5.
______________________ A law that banned discrimination in voter registration
and elections.
Read
each sentence below and fill in the blank with the best choice from the pair
provided.
1.
To speed up the
_______________________ process, federal courts began to order that children be
bussed from their neighborhood to schools in other parts of the city.
(integration/segregation)
2.
The
_______________________ banned discrimination in employment and in public
accommodations. (Civil Rights Act of 1964/Fifteenth Amendment)
3.
The
_______________________ decision called for the desegregation of public schools.
(Plessy v. Ferguson/Brown v. Board of Education)
4.
From
_______________________, students urged African Americans in Mississippi to
register to vote. (1954-1959/1961-1965)
5.
After visiting
Islam’s holy sites in Saudi Arabia, _______________________ changed his views on
racial equality and began calling for racial harmony. (Martin Luther King
Jr./Malcolm X)
ANALYZING POLITICAL
CARTOONS
Study the political cartoon, and then answer the
questions that follow.
1. What do you think the thorn bush represents?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Notice the word “equality” on the rose. Why
would the artist depict equality as a rose?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Who is likely saying, ‘Not so fast’?” in the
quote at the bottom of the cartoon?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Part 4:
Social
Change and Beginning a New Era
1968-2000
Respond to 5 of the following questions
on a separate sheet(s) using your notes, text, and knowledge. Be
sure to put your name and the question numbers on your paper. (25 points)
1.
What events led to the election of Richard Nixon in 1968?
What were some of the major domestic policy questions facing Nixon?
What were some of the major foreign-policy challenges facing Nixon?
2.
What were the facts surrounding the Watergate Scandal?
How did it change American society?
3.
What was the bicentennial? Why did
President Ford say it was necessary for the nation to celebrate its history in
order to “heal the wounds of the present”?
4.
What were the events surrounding the Iran Hostage Crisis?
Why did it hurt President Carter’s reputation as a leader?
5.
What factors led to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980?
What was the “Reagan Revoultion”?
List the positive and negative aspects of his Presidency.
6.
Describe and discuss the Presidency of George H.W. Bush (1989-1993).
What was the Gulf War of 1990-92?
What factors led to Bush’s defeat in the 1992 election?
7.
What were the key events in the political rise of Bill Clinton?
What were some of the major domestic policy questions facing Clinton?
What were some of the major foreign-policy challenges facing Clinton?
What events led to scandal and impeachment proceedings during the Clinton
presidency?