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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did King feel about the agreement in Chicago?

2. Where did King and the potential voters refuse to vacate the sidewalk?

3. What were the marchers attacked with in Canton?

4. King learned that the Johnson Administration was taking money from social programs for what?

5. What was the main source of racial trouble in Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did King agree to suspend all demonstrations in St. Augustine? What did he learn after doing this?

2. What did King's wife receive? How did King feel about this?

3. What did King demand of the city of Birmingham? What happened?

4. What did Hoover tell reporters? How did King react? What effect did the rumors have?

5. What health struggles did King encounter? What contributed to this? What award did he learn that he had won?

6. What obstacles did King and the others face during the Meredith March? How did they handle these obstacles?

7. Which city was chosen as the next venue for SCLC demonstrations? Why was it chosen as a site for demonstrations?

8. Following the protests in Selma, what other avenues to desegregation did the SCLC discuss? What did King share with the SCLC at this meeting?

9. Why was King arrested in St. Augustine? What was the result of the grand jury?

10. Where did riots break out? What did King say caused the riots?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Vietnam War influence the Civil Rights Movement? How did King feel about the war? Why did he believe that the war contributed to the riots in the US in the 1960s?

Essay Topic 2

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? How did this protest begin? What influence did the boycott have on the Civil Rights Movement? Was the boycott successful? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

What was the SCLC? How did this organization begin? What role did King play in this movement? How did the movement influence the Civil Rights Movement?

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