Chapter 21 Quiz

A  13 percent

B  29 percent

C  5 percent

D  35 percent

A  John Conyers

B  James Bevel

C  John Lewis

D  Harold Ford, Jr.

A  success of civil rights reforms

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

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

D  need for African Americans to unite around racial identity

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

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

C  demand new civil rights legislation

D  protest continued racial discrimination

A  a decline in drug use among white Americans

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

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

D  both persistent poverty and targeted police surveillance of black communities

A  is the logical result of the deindustrialization of American society

B  is the best way to deal with pressing social problems

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

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

A  Eldridge Cleaver

B  Geronimo Pratt

C  Bobby Seale

D  Huey Newton

A  fallen to an all-time low of 22 percent

B  declined to the lowest level since the Reagan administration

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

D  risen to nearly 40 percent

A  the flaws in legislative strategy

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

C  a disturbing lack of interest in civil rights issues

D  racist tendencies in the new administration

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  embracing the conservatism of Ronald Reagan

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

A  Carol Moseley Braun

B  Anita Hill

C  Eleanor Holmes Norton

D  Oprah Winfrey