Chapter 05: Civil Rights
The number of people who identify as transgender in the United States is approximately blank percent
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Homer Plessy was blank African-American
1/8
Currently there are blank million undocumented immigrants in the United States, blank percent of whom have lived in the US for over 10 years.
11; 66
Which constitutional amendment outlawed slavery in 1865?
13th amendment
In the Oberfeld versus Hodges 2015, the supreme court ruled that the right to marry is the fundamental liberty protected by which amendment of the Constitution
14th
What was the Chicano movement?
A mass movement for Mexican American civil rights
Which considerations are now required, due to the ADA?
A public school must consider access and an employer must consider reasonable accommodations
Who was Dred Scott?
A slave who sued for his freedom by arguing that he was emancipated as soon as his owner took him into free territory
Blank action includes intentional efforts to recruit, hire, train, and promote underutilized categories of workers in the employment arena
Affirmative
Which policy requires that an organization make intentional effort's to diversify by providing equal opportunity two classes of people that have been historically, and often are currently, subject to discrimination?
Affirmative action
During the first century of our nations history, which of the following groups was involved in the national debate about equality?
African Americans
Which events helped create momentum for quality of African-Americans in the first half of the 20th century?
African-American soldiers returning home after fighting in World War II and supreme court decisions to clearing some types of segregation unconstitutional
Which of the following statements accurately reflects the impact of African-American voters in the south during the reconstruction era?
African-American voters elected a substantial number of other African-Americans to office in local, state, and federal governments
Voting rights act
Aggressively fought to counter nearly 100 years of disenfranchisement
One of the provisions of the 1950 internal security act
Allowed the government to imprison citizens deemed enemy collaborators during a crisis
When it comes to voting, Latinos
As a group have the lowest voting percentage
Which of the following ethnic groups of the fastest growing in the United States?
Asian Americans
Which of the following was not included in the provisions of the civil rights act of 1964
Banning poll taxes and literacy tests
Civil rights act of 1964
Bard racial discrimination and accommodations and private employment
The largest Asian American population's can be found in which of the following states
California, Hawaii, and New York
What events Garner national attention for Martin Luther King junior, and lead to the decisive supreme court case?
Bus boycott
Which of the following assertions resulted from the courts decision and dread Scott versus Sandford?
Citizens, not slaves, have the legal right to bring lawsuits in court, Scott was not a US citizen, and the US Congress lacked authority to ban slavery in the territories
Constitutionally impose constraints on government or called
Civil liberties
A type of segregation that is mandated by law is called
De jure segregation
In Plessy versus Ferguson, the Supreme Court determined that separate but equal facilities
Did not violate the 14th amendment equal protection clause
What was the purpose of the ADA restoration act of 2008?
Do you broaden the definition of impairments that are covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act
Which of the following founded the agricultural workers organizing committee and the national farmworkers Association
Dolores Huerta, jessie Lopez, and Cesar Chavez
What was the name of the case in which the supreme court ruled that African-Americans were not citizens of legal rights?
Dred Scott versus Sandford
Which of the following areas has been affected by the civil rights movement
Education, employment, voting rights, and housing
Affirmative action policies have been used by who to expand opportunities for women in Minority group members
Educational institutions and employers
Presently, those fighting for Asian American civil rights are focusing on what area?
Employment
Title VII of the civil rights act of 1964 mandated equality in which of the following areas
Employment
13th amendment
Ended slavery throughout the United States and prohibited in the future
List the following achievements of the civil rights movement in chronological order from first to last
Ending segregation in public schools, then barring racial discrimination in accommodations and private employment, finally desegregation and housing
What government body that the title seven of the civil rights act of 1964 created still Administers the enforcement of title seven today?
Equal employment opportunity commission
Which of the following was the goal of the second wave of the women's rights movement?
Equal legal rights for women
The emancipation proclamation issued by President Lincoln in 1862
Establish the abolition of slavery as a war gold
15th amendment
Expanded voting rights to former slaves
Americans with disabilities act
Extended the ban on discrimination against people with disabilities in education, employment, healthcare, housing, and transportation all programs and organizations
True or false: the federal government honored most of the treaties it made with Native American tribes from 1778 to 1870
False: almost all those treaties were empty promises
True or false: all of her brown accidentally enrolled his daughter in an all white public school in Topeka Kansas
False: the active and rolling Linda brown in an all white public school was a calculated first step in an NAACP legal strategy pushing for an end to segregation in public education
True or false: early civil rights advocate such as W.E.B. Du Bois thought for separate but equal treatment for Minority groups
False: the civil rights movement actually fought for equal treatment from the government, public accommodations, and educational institutions
The black lives matter movement grew from protests in blank following the shooting death of an on arm teenager by white police officer
Ferguson, MO
In practice, in early America, women had
Fewer rights than men
Arrange the waves of the women's rights movement from its earliest attempt. The earliest event should be on top.
First the movement wins women the right to vote via the 19th amendment. Then the movement expands women civil rights through litigation and legislation. Finally, feminist groups fight intersectionality and multiple forms of discrimination by helping low income women overcome economic barriers.
Arrange the following events in chronological order, starting with the earliest attempt to achieve women suffrage
First the national American women suffrage Association urges voters to boycott candidates to oppose women suffrage. Then President Woodrow Wilson wins reelection and therefore suffrage activists who have been arrested and jailed engage in a hunger strike. Persistent media pressure increases support for women suffrage and finally the 19th amendment is ratified
What was the focus of the national women's suffrage Association?
Gaining female suffrage by amending the constitution
The first wave of the fight for women's civil rights focused on
Gaining the right to vote
The 15th amendment to the constitution
Gives every man the right to vote, regardless of color
Which of the following represents the de facto Imbalances argument used by Chief Justice Roberts?
Government should not use laws to remedy racial and balances caused by economic inequalities, individual choices, and historical biases
Which US supreme court case upheld the Bakke decision and utilize the strict scrutiny test by stating that universities can use race as a factor in missions decisions, but not as the overriding factor?
Grutter v. Bollinger
The blank scrutiny test for sex based discrimination was established by the supreme court and Craig versus Boren in 1976
Heightened
In the late 20th century, the main focus of gender equity activism was on
How the law could prevent or punish private behavior that harmed women based on their gender
The immigration policies and proposals of President Trump include which of the following?
Increase deportations, expanded grounds of who is considered a removable alien, and building a wall along the US-Mexico border
The law passed by Congress that called for the forced relocation of all native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi was called the
Indian removal act
Characteristics such as race, religion, national origin, or sex, which are protected by government assurances of civil rights, are called
Inherent characteristics
Civil rights or government protections against discrimination based on
Inherent characteristics
Which of the following refers to the experience in multiple forms of oppression based on race, class, sexual orientation, or sexual identity simultaneously
Inter-sectionality
The experience of multiple forms of oppression at the same time is referred to as blank
Intersectionality
What president with a stab list from the Broadwalk case in 1873
It enabled the court to treat women differently from men
What are the voting Rights act of 1965 do you?
It mandated federal intervention in any county in which less than 50% of eligible voters were registered and it band discriminatory voter registration practices
In most cases during the late 1800s, what was the purpose of education for girls
It prepare them be good wives and mothers
Which of the following is true of the decision in Obergefell versus Hodges?
It recognized same sex marriage as a fundamental liberty under the 14th amendment
Which of the following acronym stands for the civil rights organization that was formed in 1929 to fight for civil rights for Mexican Americans and was successful and it's challenge of the segregated school system in California?
LUL AC
Which 2003 Supreme Court decision overturned an earlier case in which it had Upheld Georgia's anti-sodomy law?
Lawrence versus Texas
Which of the following was a key turning point in the Civil War?
Lincolns issuance of the emancipation proclamation
14th amendment
Mandates the same privileges and immunities for all citizens and due process protections for all people
What important discriminatory issues were women raising by the 1960s?
Men had better employment opportunities and higher pay, women were unable to obtain credit without having a male cosign alone, and men had more educational opportunities
What federal case challenge the segregated school systems in California, which provided Mexican children with separate schools that were of lower quality than the schools for white children?
Mendez versus Westminster
Which of the following my Nordie groups make up the largest Hispanic population in the United States?
Mexicans
The shooting death of an African American teenager named blank, in the fall of 2014, caused many young activists around the country to come together and organize the black lives matter movement
Michael brown
When did most of the moment his victories made by civil rights activists finally begin?
Mid20th century
Which of the following statements about Japanese Americans during World War II are true?
Mini relocated Japanese Americans lost their homes and businesses, Japanese Americans from the West Coast were placed in internment camps, and the civil rights of Japanese-Americans were violated
Which supreme court case to create a state governments, not the US Constitution, established voting rights
Minor versus Happersett
Which of the following events was a direct result of Rosa parks conviction?
Montgomery bus boycott
Which association, found in the early 20th century, focused on the any qualities brought forth by the separate but equal doctrine
National Association for the advancement of colored people
African-American civil rights factories were the result of which of the following?
New national media covering the struggle, the movement strong leader ship, and effective strategies used by activists
In 1971, using the blank scrutiny test established in 1873 Bradwell case, the court ruled the discriminatory treatment of women was unconstitutional
Ordinary
The legality of sex based discrimination in the Broadwalk case of 1873 was determined by which test?
Ordinary scrutiny test
The legality of sex based discrimination in the Broadwell case of 1873 was determined by which test?
Ordinary scrutiny test
The civil rights act of 1964 prohibited
Private businesses and organizations from discriminating in hiring decisions based on inherent characteristics
1973 rehabilitation act
Prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities in federally funded programs
Civil rights act of 1968
Prohibited racial discrimination in housing
Which of the following are part of the national discussion to address the issue of illegal immigration to United States
Providing refugee status to minors, offering pathways do you citizenship, and mass deportations
A main question raised by the me to movement is how to
Punish and prevent the private exercise of sexual power over women
The time after the Civil War between 1866 and 1877, when the institutions and infrastructure of the south or rebuilt, is known as the
Reconstruction era
Which of the following make it more difficult for the black lives matter movement to achieve their goals
Seeking broad social changes rather than change to a specific law or policy and a lack of institutionalized structure
In the plus the case, the supreme court establish the standard of
Separate but equal
The primary focus of the #MeToo movement is
Sexual violence and coercion
Which of the following describes Rosa parks best known act of resistance?
She refused to leave her seat in the front of the bus to make room for a white passenger
Which of the following refers to the legal right to bring lawsuits in court?
Standing to sue
Even after the ratification of the 14th amendment, women's educational and work opportunities were limited by
State laws and social norms
Event was responsible for triggering the game and lesbian rights movement in the United States?
Stonewall incident
Oliver brown and rolled his daughter blank in an all white public school and Topeka, Kansas
Strategically
In the Grutter versus Bollinger case, the supreme court use the
Strict scrutiny test
Airport by the department of justice in the killing of Michael Brown found
Systematic oppression of black citizenry by the police
The national quarts of established what that the government uses to determine when I Niegel protection under the law is legal?
Tests
In Shelby County versus Alabama 2013, the supreme court found
That part of the voting Rights act of 1965 was unconstitutional
Which of the following organizations play in important role in the anti-slavery movement of the early to mid-1850s, including supporting the underground railroad?
The anti-slavery society
Initially the battles for women's voting rights to place the state level of government because
The constitution reserved for the states the authority determine who had the right to vote
Uncle Tom's cabin depicted
The harsh reality of slavery in the United States
The test a quart uses to determine whether unequal treatment is illegal depends on
The inherent characteristic that is the basis of the differential treatment
During which time. And advocates for women civil rights begin their efforts to secure for women the right to vote?
The mid 1800s
Before the Civil War, which of the following at birds were made by the abolitionists, including organizations like the American anti-slavery society?
They called for the emancipation of slaves, objected to the efforts of Congress to accommodate sleep holding states, and support of the Underground Railroad
The Montgomery bus boycott was considered a success because
The protest Garner national media tension in public sympathy and the supreme court ruled that segregated buses were unconstitutional
What do you have Ben's inspired many northerners to begin to actively challenge slavery?
The publishing of uncle Tom's cabin and the trial and execution of John Brown over the incident in Harpers Ferry
For Asian Americans the glass ceiling refers to
The under representation of Asian Americans from the very top job leader ship positions
Which figure is an accurate representation of Latinos in the United States
They make up about 17% of the total US population
How do you counter protests like all lives matter or blue lives matter misunderstand The black lives matter movement
They see it is merely a challenge to law-enforcement
Which part of the civil rights act of 1964 was written by Congress to prohibit discrimination in all personal decisions based on gender as well as other categories
Title seven and title IX
Individuals who gender does not match the sex they were assigned to our referred to as
Trans gender
When first written, the constitution
Treated people of African descent as property
True or false: following the passage and enforcement of voting laws in the south, record numbers of African-Americans of one election office
True: all states, especially those in the south, have seen an enormous increase in the number of African Americans elected to serve in offices at the state, county, and local levels
True or false: Mississippi has not elected an African-American to statewide office since reconstruction
True: more African-American service local elected officials in Mississippi than any other state, but an African-American has not been elected to a state wide office since reconstruction
True or false: when it was first written, the constitution implicitly endorsed the unequal and discriminatory treatment of African-Americans
True: some of the most important provisions of the new constitution treated people of African descent as property
True or false: the civil rights act of 1960 for both expanded the rights of many Americans and provided them with protections from discrimination
True: the civil rights act of 1964 included provisions that mandated equality on numerous fronts
In the 2013 Supreme Court case that overturned a key provision of the defense of marriage act was
United States versus Windsor
In the struggle for civil rights, LBGTQ persons have
Used similar strategies as other groups
In order to ensure equal employment opportunity for all, the federal government in the 1960s began to require agencies and businesses
Who is doubles policies aimed at giving minority group members equal opportunities to obtain jobs
Among the laws giving women greater equality in the workplace were laws prohibiting
an employer from paying women less than men for doing the same job
De blank segregation is segregation is mandated by law
jure
