7. What was the Beat Generation?

Question 7 options:

a. The activists who fought for civil rights for African Americans in the 50's and 60's.


b. The protesters who marched from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama for African Americans to have voting rights


c.A group of New York writers and their followers who rejected the "ideal" American life


d.A term for people who grew up during the Cold War

Question 8
Containment is the policy of preventing the spread of communism by helping countries who were not already communist

Question 8 options:
a.True
b.False
Question 9
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

Question 9 options:

a.Banned segregation in public spaces only


b.Banned literacy tests and polling taxes for voting


c.Banned segregation on buses


d.Banned segregation in public spaces and banned racial discrimination when hiring for jobs

Question 10
What was the impact of Benjamin Spock's book, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care?

Question 10 options:

a. It encouraged people to begin having more children after WWII


b .It convinced parents that the only way to parent was to show babies very little affection so they do not become spoiled


c.It encouraged parents to start being more flexible with their kids and changed the way people raised their children


d.It convinced parents that it was okay for their children to rebel against the "ideal" American life

Question 11 (1 point)
What did the Supreme Court decide in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas court case?

Question 11 options:

That white American students must begin attending African American schools


That "separate but equal" is NOT constitutional


That preventing someone from voting because of their race is unconstitutional


That "separate but equal" IS constitutional

Question 12 (1 point)
The list communist spies in the US that Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have turned out to be real.

Question 12 options:
a.True
b.False