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