GOVT 2305 Chapter 5

Which groups have historically lacked equality in the US

- CAtholics - Asian American - WOmen

What did the Voting Right Act of 1965 entail?

- It allowed federal intervention in voter registration in states with a history of discriminating against black voters - It banned discrimination voter registration practices

Which of the following are among redlining's legacies?

- Segregated neighborhoods still exist - Hispanic and African Americans still have difficulty obtaining mortgages (compared to whites)

WHich of the following are rights gays and lesbians had to fight for in the US?

- THe right to have the same benefits as traditional couples - THe right to openly enlist in the military

Which practices were banned as result of the Civil Rights Act of 1968

- discriminatory practices in housing - discriminatory real estate practices such as steering African American families to certain neighborhoods -discriminatory practices in mortage lending

Southern stated used a number of devices to prevent African Americans from voting, including which of the follwoing?

- poll taxes - literacy tests - white-only primaries

WHich policy required the federal government to begin implementing measures aimed at reinforcing equal access to employment mandating recruitment procedures that gave qualified minority workers an equal opportunity to gain government jobs?

Affirmation action

The landmark case of Lau v. Nichols (1974) resulted in many states offering ______ education in their public school

Bilingual

Which of the following was the 1954 landmark case that ended segregation in public schools?

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Which term refers to the rights and privileges guaranteed to all citizens under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments

Civil Rights

The 1964 Civil Rights Act banned

Discrimination in public accommodations

Which proposed amendment to the Constitution was passed by the Congress in the early 1970s but failed to receive the necessary three-fourths majority?

Equal rights Amendment

Which clause of the US Constitution was the center of the argument in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?

Equal-protection clause

Although many Americans believe that the concept of _______ includes such things as access to jobs and health care, others argue that it means only that people are all treated the same under the law

Equality

Which amendments passed at the end of the war granted Afican American men the right to vote?

Fifteenth

How did Thomas Jefferson define the meaning of "all men are created equal"?

He did not believe there was a precise meaning

In 1968 Congress passed a law, the ______, that granted Native Americans constitutional rights similar to those held by other Americans

Indian Civil RIght Acts

Which of the following minority groups make up the largest Hispanic population in the US?

Mexicans

Which of the following statements about African American children in the US is true?

More than half grow up in a single-parent family

In a 1930s SUpreme Court case that challenged the application of the separate-but-equal doctrine, the Court ruled that blacks _______ be allowed to use public facilities reserved for whites in those cases where they didn't have separate facilities

Must

Which constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote?

Nineteenth Amendment

What is at heart of many civil right struggles for equality in the US?

People hold deep-seatred prejudices based in such things as race, color, and religion

On Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court declared that "_______" but equal facilities do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause

Separate

In 1972, Native Americans organized a caravan titled the ______ that journeyed from California to Washington, DC, to protest federal policy

Trail of Broken Treaties

Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, many restaurants, hotels, and other establishments still refused to serve black customers

True

Despite the persisting issues of institutional racism, one area in which African Americans have made significant gains in is _________

Winning elective office

What Sioux village has been the site of both a US cavalry massacre of Native Americans and a modern protest?

Wound Knee

Hispanic in the US are generally concentrated ________

in their states of entry

Hispanics in the US aew generally concentrated _____

in their states of entry

In a 1947 case, the Supreme Court ruled that because they had no law school for black students, the University of Oklahoma was _______ to admit Ada Sipuel to its law school

required

In 1892, Congress suspended Asian immigration to the US on the grounds that Asians _____

were an inferior people

Affirmative action policies have been used by _______ to expand opportunity for women and minority group members

- educational institution - employers