NY Regents US History and Government Module 6 civil rights and modern America overview quiz quiz

It declared segregated public schools inherently unequal and unconstitutional, overturning Plessy

It created the poll tax

It ended the right to vote for African Americans

It upheld racial segregation

Armed rebellion

Secession from the Union

Nonviolent protest and civil disobedience

Withdrawal from public life

It outlawed devices like literacy tests used to deny African Americans the vote

It ended the civil rights movement

It repealed the Fifteenth Amendment

It segregated schools

That all trials be held in secret

That police inform suspects of their rights, including silence and a lawyer, before questioning

That suspects be denied a lawyer

That the death penalty be abolished

The long demand for women's equality from Seneca Falls and the Nineteenth Amendment

The Cold War

The New Deal

The Spanish-American War

Health programs for the elderly (Medicare) and the poor (Medicaid)

Civil rights laws

Cold War alliances

Immigration quotas

To declare war on the Soviet Union

To end the draft

To expand presidential war powers

To limit the president's power to commit troops to combat without congressional approval

That Congress cannot investigate the president

That the courts have no power

That the president is above the law

That checks and balances work and no one, not even the president, is above the law

Increased trust in government

The end of checks and balances

A lasting loss of public trust in government

The expansion of the Great Society

Expanding the New Deal welfare state

Government ownership of industry

Higher taxes on business

A smaller domestic government, with tax cuts and deregulation

In a direct war between the superpowers

The Soviet system collapsed: the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991

It is still ongoing

The United States joined the Soviet Union

It became weaker than the Soviet Union

It became the world's sole superpower, and containment became obsolete

It joined the League of Nations

It returned to isolation immediately

A Cold War alliance

A return to isolation

The growing interconnection and interdependence of nations through trade, communication, and technology

A type of Supreme Court case

Federalism versus states' rights

Free trade versus protectionism

The legislative versus the judicial branch

The tension between national security and civil liberties

One long essay worth 20 points

Six questions, one per document, worth 1 point each

Ten multiple-choice questions

Three questions worth 5 points each

Answer from memory

Guess based on the title

Answer directly from the document itself

Write as much as possible

They make you read each of the 6 documents and organize evidence for the essay

They are unrelated to the essay

They are worth more than the essay

They replace the essay