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AP U.S. History — Period 8 (1945–1980) — Drill 16

Drill 16 · Multiple Choice · Period 8: 1945–1980

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AP U.S. History — Period 8 (1945–1980) — Drill 16 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 8: 1945–1980. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

This AP U.S. History Period 8 drill uses a modern historian's analysis challenging the standard civil rights narrative. Questions address the historian's argument, the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation, and what the standard narrative obscures about race and inequality in America.

Passage

The following is adapted from a modern historian's essay challenging the standard Civil Rights Movement narrative. The Civil Rights Movement is often taught as a story that begins with Rosa Parks in 1955 and ends with the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This narrative is both useful and misleading. It is useful because it highlights genuine legal and legislative victories — the dismantling of de jure segregation — that transformed American law. It is misleading because it suggests the movement ended when its formal legislative goals were achieved, obscuring the harder and less resolved struggles that followed: the fight against de facto segregation in Northern cities, the challenge of structural economic inequality, and the emergence of Black Power as a response to the limits of legal reform. To understand what the movement accomplished — and what it did not — we must resist the temptation of a story too tidy to be true.

Questions in This Drill

  1. The historian's description of the standard civil rights narrative as 'both useful and misleading' primarily serves to
  2. The historian's distinction between 'de jure segregation' and 'de facto segregation' most directly reflects which of the following realities of American racial geography in the 1960s?
  3. The 'harder and less resolved struggles' the historian identifies as following the 1965 legislative victories were most directly illustrated by which of the following events?
  4. The emergence of Black Power as a political movement, which the historian identifies as a response to 'the limits of legal reform,' was most directly associated with
  5. Which of the following most directly supports the historian's argument that the civil rights story did not end with the Voting Rights Act of 1965?