Analyze the role of U.S. civil rights leaders in the Cold War and indicate which of the following best characterizes how they responded to foreign policy events after World War II.(1 point)
Responses
A. Civil rights leaders varied in their responses, but all linked the Cold War to the struggle against racial discrimination in the U.S. and abroad in some way.
B. Civil rights leaders were hesitant to criticize U.S. foreign policy for fear of reducing their influence over public opinion.
C. Civil rights leaders largely sought to separate foreign policy from the struggle against racism at home.
D. Civil rights leaders opposed global nationalist movements for fear of being linked to communism and being considered unpatriotic.
A. Civil rights leaders varied in their responses, but all linked the Cold War to the struggle against racial discrimination in the U.S. and abroad in some way.
Identify which individual was involved in the LGBTQ+ rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s in the U.S.(1 point)
Responses
De Beauvoir
Rustin
Forster
King
Rustin
Describe the political history of the ERA.(1 point)
Responses
A. The ERA was ratified by 30 states within a year of Senate approval, which is all that was needed to add it to the Constitution.
B. The ERA was first introduced to Congress in 1923. It then took until 1972 for the Senate to approve it.
C. The ERA was first introduced to Congress in 1923. It was then fully ratified and added as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment in 2020.
D. Virginia finally ratified the ERA, allowing it to be added to the Constitution.
B. The ERA was first introduced to Congress in 1923. It then took until 1972 for the Senate to approve it.
Identify an example of an act of resistance by Indigenous peoples’ movements in the U.S.(1 point)
Responses
A. the 1978 protests at the Alta River
B. the 1970 occupation of Mount Rushmore
C. the 1980 Sámi hunger protests outside the Norwegian parliament
D. ongoing protests to support reindeer herding throughout the Nordic states
B. the 1970 occupation of Mount Rushmore
Identify an example of an act of resistance by Indigenous peoples’ movements in Europe.(1 point)
Responses
A. the 1970 occupation of Mount Rushmore
B. the 1980 Sámi hunger protests outside the Norwegian parliament
C. the 1970 occupation of Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts
D. the 1972 setting up of survival schools in Minnesota