Chapter 21 Review Quiz

A  29 percent

B  35 percent

C  13 percent

D  5 percent

A  John Lewis

B  Harold Ford, Jr.

C  James Bevel

D  John Conyers

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  demand new civil rights legislation

B  protest continued racial discrimination

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

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

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

B  both persistent poverty and targeted police surveillance of black communities

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

D  a decline in drug use among white Americans

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

B  is the logical result of the deindustrialization of American society

C  is the best way to deal with pressing social problems

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

A  Geronimo Pratt

B  Eldridge Cleaver

C  Bobby Seale

D  Huey Newton

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

B  risen to nearly 40 percent

C  fallen to an all-time low of 22 percent

D  declined to the lowest level since the Reagan administration

A  a disturbing lack of interest in civil rights issues

B  racist tendencies in the new administration

C  the flaws in legislative strategy

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

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

D  embracing the conservatism of Ronald Reagan

A  Oprah Winfrey

B  Carol Moseley Braun

C  Eleanor Holmes Norton

D  Anita Hill