Chapter 5: Civil Rights – Flashcards
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Which city was the setting for a major racial confrontation concerning school busing?
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Boston
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T/F: Affirmative action programs were first established in the 1960s.
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TRUE
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The American experience with civil rights suggests which of the following things about political change in the United States?
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Legislatures need constitutional authority to act from the courts, and the courts need legislative assistance to implement court orders and focus political support.
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The Reconstruction era in the South came to an end because
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Northern Republicans agreed to remove federal troops from the South and give up on their support for civil liberties if Southern Democrats allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president.
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Which of the following statements about the abolitionist movement is false?
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The movement focused most of its energies on eliminating slavery in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
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T/F: Courts have found sexual harassment on the job to be a form of sex discrimination.
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TRUE
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California Proposition 209 was designed to
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outlaw all affirmative action programs in state and local government.
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Which of the following best summarizes the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?
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Racially segregated schools can never be equal.
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Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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was a valuable tool for the women's movement in the 1960s and 1970s because it prohibited gender discrimination.
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Under what conditions can a plaintiff successfully bring a sexual harassment charge?
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The plaintiff need prove neither economic nor psychological harm.
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Which statement best describes the path to women's suffrage in the United States?
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Some states granted women the right to vote first, and then a constitutional amendment gave all women the right to vote.
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Which area of discrimination was touched by the legal principles of Brown v. Board of Education?
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public schools
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T/F: Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, a plaintiff was required to show that an employer deliberately discriminated against them in order to win a lawsuit.
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TRUE
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T/F: In 2007, the federal government failed to pass major new immigration legislation.
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TRUE
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The Supreme Court case Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools (1992) is important because it
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asserted that violations of Title IX of the 1972 Education Act could be remedied with monetary damages.
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The NAACP had the most success with which political strategies for combating racism?
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lawsuits
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To draw voting districts so that one group or party is unfairly advantaged is called
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gerrymandering.
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Who said, "Your denial of my citizen's right to vote is the denial of my right of consent as one of the governed, the denial of my right of representation as one of the taxed, the denial of my right to a trial of my peers as an offender against the law"?
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Susan B. Anthony
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"Strict scrutiny" is the level of judicial review the federal courts give to all cases that involve
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racial classifications.
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What did the Thirteenth Amendment accomplish?
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It abolished slavery.
