Representative Viewpoints in U.S. Social History from 1899 to the Present

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SAT Subject Test in United States History › Representative Viewpoints in U.S. Social History from 1899 to the Present

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5
1

Which First Lady was behind the sexual and drug abstinence campaign called Just Say No?

2

. . . But the great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right. My friends, don’t let anybody make us feel that we \[are\] to be compared in our actions with the Ku Klux Klan or with the White Citizens Council. There will be no crosses burned at any bus stops in Montgomery. There will be no white persons pulled out of their homes and taken out on some distant road and lynched for not cooperating. There will be nobody amid, among us who will stand up and defy the Constitution of this nation. We only assemble here because of our desire to see right exist. . .

— Martin Luther King, Jr., December 1955

What is the main idea of this quotation by MLK Jr?

3

What did Samuel Gompers hail as “the working man’s Magna Carta”?

4

In the Supreme Court case Muller v. Oregon,the Court ruled that __________.

5

Marcus Garvey __________.

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