Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 14

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Diane Nash

• A)was an openly racist Alabama governor who vowed to protect segregation and later ran for president on the American Independent Party ticket
• B)won California's Democratic primary in 1968 but was assassinated that night by Sirhan Sirhan out of resentment for his support of Israel
• C)was an African American air force veteran whose efforts to attend a southern university were met with a white mob, resulting in the arrival of National Guard troops
• D)was an outspoken activist on racism, sexism, the "prison-industrial complex," gay/lesbian rights, and the Vietnam War
• E)wrote the best-selling book The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) and won Arizona in the 1964 presidential race
• F)was a Freedom Rider who recruited new members upon hearing about the violence perpetrated toward Freedom Riders in Birmingham
• G)was elected vice president under John F. Kennedy in 1960 and later on developed programs that would exceed Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal in scope
• H)was secretary of state during the Cuban missile crisis and told reporters to say that the Soviets "blinked first"
• I)was an American army commander in Vietnam who focused on waging a war of attrition and using overwhelming firepower
• J)became a major spokesman for the Black Muslim movement and expressed the emotions and frustrations of the inner-city African American working poor

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Definitions:

Statistically Significant

A determination in statistical analysis that an observed difference or relationship is unlikely to have occurred by chance.

Sample Average

The arithmetic mean of a set of numerical values, calculated by adding them together and dividing by the number of samples.

Skewed Distribution

A statistical term describing a distribution that is not symmetrical and has a long tail on one side of the peak.

Population Average

The mean value of a particular characteristic or measurement across an entire population.