Chapter 21 Quiz

A  13 percent

B  35 percent

C  29 percent

D  5 percent

A  James Bevel

B  Harold Ford, Jr.

C  John Conyers

D  John Lewis

A  commitment of liberal Democrats to civil rights in the United States

B  success of civil rights reforms

C  need for African Americans to unite around racial identity

D  commitment of right-wing conservatives to civil rights in the United States

A  send a message to so-called mainstream civil rights organizations that black Americans were growing impatient with their lack of success

B  demand new civil rights legislation

C  protest continued racial discrimination

D  allow African American men to atone for past misdeeds and accept responsibility for their families and communities

A  a decline in drug use among white Americans

B  rising violent crime rates over the course of the 1990s

C  both persistent poverty and targeted police surveillance of black communities

D  holdover legislation from the Jim Crow era that mandated racial bias in sentencing

A  is the logical result of the deindustrialization of American society

B  is being used as a substitute for dealing with social injustices

C  has resulted in the destruction of a rising black leadership class

D  is the best way to deal with pressing social problems

A  Huey Newton

B  Eldridge Cleaver

C  Bobby Seale

D  Geronimo Pratt

A  declined to the lowest level since the Reagan administration

B  fallen to an all-time low of 22 percent

C  stayed the same as 1993 levels demonstrating the negative impact of President Clinton’s social policies

D  risen to nearly 40 percent

A  a disturbing lack of interest in civil rights issues

B  the flaws in legislative strategy

C  racist tendencies in the new administration

D  that he, like previous Democratic presidents, was reluctant to take political risks to reward black voters’ support

A  reassembling the liberal coalition of the 1960s

B  balancing the liberal views of his youth with the centrist vision of the Democratic Party in the 1990s

C  rejecting African American support in favor of populist appeals to working-class whites

D  embracing the conservatism of Ronald Reagan

A  Anita Hill

B  Carol Moseley Braun

C  Eleanor Holmes Norton

D  Oprah Winfrey