Chapter 17 - Social Movements of the 19th and 20th century

Identify which of the following profiles benefited most from the work of Fannie Lou Hamer and Gloria Steinem.

A young African American working a blue-collar job

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott advocated for women's rights after their involvement in what other reform movement?

Abolition

Who did a poll tax target?

African Americans

What did the temperance movement believe was contributing to the moral decline of the United States?

Alcohol

Which leader of the temperance movement was well known for carrying an axe and threatening opposition to their cause?

Carrie Nation

Why did the Nineteenth Amendment have historic consequences for the status of female rights?

It provided women with the right to vote.

Which of the following statements is NOT true of the 19th Amendment granting American women the right to vote in 1920?

It took more than a year for states to ratify the 19th Amendment. It was referred to as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It met tough opposition through anti-suffrage forces. It was considered to be the most significant democratic achievement of the Progressive Era. -President Wilson celebrated its passage as one of the earliest supporters of the suffrage movement.

Which president signed the first law starting Affirmative Action?

Kennedy

Which of these groups is one of those most often featured in civil rights cases in Texas' history?

Latinos and Mexican-Americans

In what state was the 1848 convention for women's rights held?

New York

Which group most approves of Forced Busing?

None of these

Which was America's first coeducational college?

Oberlin

The temperance movement were successfully at lobbying congress to ratify which amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

The 18th

William Anderson was a prominent lobbyist for which one of the following organizations.

The Anti-Saloon League

How did the National Woman's Party (NWP) tactics differ from the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?

The NWP was viewed as confrontational due to their use of aggressive tactics.

How did the views of radical feminists differ from that of the conservative movement?

The conservative movement focused on the virtue of the family, although with a bit more of a modern approach, while radical feminists believed that institutions created by men oppressed women.

What crucial protection did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 threaten to remove from violators?

Trial by jury

The case that ruled blacks should be allowed to go to a white law school if there was not a state-supported black law school was:

University of Maryland v. Murray.

What was the Civil Rights Act of 1957 primarily concerned with?

Voting rights

All of the following are ways in which women's clubs contributed to the women's suffrage movement EXCEPT:

Women united across all social classes to eliminate the idea of 'separate spheres' of influence for men and women.

In the 1947 case of Delgado v. Bastrop', why was it determined that Mexican Americans could not be forced to attend segregated schools?

Because Mexican Americans were considered to be white

Why was a suit filed against Texas in the 1970 United States v. Texas'?

Because Texas was inconsistent in its desegregation practices

Why were the school districts of Edgewood v. Kirby filing lawsuit against the commissioner of education?

Because the state's policies on school funding created inequality between schools

Why did a group of parents sue the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in 1951?

Because they wanted schools desegregated.

The court case that ruled states could make colleges segregated, even if the college did not want to be segregated, was:

Berea College v. Kentucky.

What case ended Separate but Equal?

Brown v. Board of Education

The Supreme Court case that ruled that segregation in schools was illegal throughout the U.S. was:

Brown v. Board of Education.

How did Strom Thurmond try to block the Civil Rights Act of 1957?

Filibuster

Which anti-slavery activist, newspaper editor, and former slave was one of the men who attended the Seneca Falls convention and signed the Declaration of Sentiments?

Frederick Douglass

What political technique has acted as a foil for the Fair Voting Act?

Gerrymandering

In Hernández v. State of Texas, the Supreme Court ruled that Hernández had not received a fair jury due to what?

His social class

Where did public schools exist in early America? I. Massachusetts II. New York III. Virginia

I. only

Some early feminists opposed passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) because:

Some early feminists opposed passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) because:

Who co-founded the women's rights paper The Revolution with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1870?

Susan B. Anthony

The temperance movement was also linked with...

Anti-immigrant feelings

Many of the attendees and participants in the first women's rights convention were involved in what other reform cause of the 1830s and 1840s?

Anti-slavery movement

Dorothea Dix was important for her work in what movement in the antebellum era?

Asylums for the mentally ill

Which area does Affirmative Action affect the most?

Education

Who were the main organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

What was the major point of contention between groups of the women's movement?

Equal Rights Amendment

How did Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique impact the Women's Movement?

It caused the rise of the second female rights movement.

The Supreme Court case that ruled that segregation was legal in train cars and other places was:

Plessy v. Ferguson.

What term was used to describe the temperance movement's extreme perspective on alcohol use?

Teetotalism

What was Carrie Chapman Catt's role in the women's suffrage movement?

She proposed organization at the local levels and promoted women's suffrage state by state.