Chapter 05: Civil Rights

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The number of people who identify as transgender in the United States is approximately blank percent

.5

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


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