Ch 5

Question 1

In the _____ step toward civil rights, a group embraces its shared identity and redefines itself as a victim of discrimination.

Answer 1

first

Question 2

In the _____ step toward civil rights, a group enters the political arena and demands rights.

Answer 2

second

Question 3

In the _____ step toward civil rights, a group must change the majority’s portrayal of the group as dangerous, inferior, or helpless.

Answer 3

third

Question 4

Any legislation involving race, ethnicity, religion, or legal aliens faces _____ scrutiny.

Answer 4

strict

Question 5

The _____ was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln that declared the slaves in all rebel states to be free.

Answer 5

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 6

For a time, Congress supported the former slaves in an effort known as _____,trying to rebuild the South around a vision of racial justice.

Answer 6

Reconstruction

Question 7

Beginning in the 1920s, many African Americans left southern agriculture and moved to more lucrative factory jobs in the northern cities—a journey known as the_____.

Answer 7

Great Migration

Question 8

_____ segregation exists without the support of specific laws and is subtly embedded within society.

Answer 8

De facto

Question 9

_____ segregation is discrimination established by laws.

Answer 9

De jure

Question 10

The Voting Rights Act of _____ protected the right to vote, struck down voter-suppression tactics like the literacy test, and empowered the attorney general and the U.S. District Court of Washington, DC, to weigh any voting change in suspect areas for its potentially discriminatory effect.

Answer 10

1965

Question 11

The ___ Convention in 1848 was the first gathering for women advocating woman’s right to vote.

Answer 11

Seneca Falls

Question 12

Immigration is less relevant for _____, the second-largest Hispanic population in the United States and American citizens by birth.

Answer 12

Puerto Ricans

Question 13

_____ have the highest education level and the highest median personal income among American population groups.

Answer 13

Asian Americans

Question 14

Congress passed the _____ in 1882 barring this country’s immigrants and declaring them ineligible for citizenship.

Answer 14

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 15

In 1831, the Supreme Court ruled that Indian tribes were _____—a separate people but without the rights of an independent nation.

Answer 15

“domestic dependent nations”

Question 16

Native American civil rights politics divides roughly into two camps; the _____ perspective advocates withdrawing from American politics and society and revitalizing Native American culture and traditions.

Answer 16

tribal movement

Question 17

Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, which forbade companies of _____ or more employees from discriminating against handicapped people and required companies to make “reasonable accommodations” for wide range of disabilities.

Answer 17

twenty-five

Question 18

The movement for same-sex rights began with a riot in 1969 when police raided a ____ gay bar named the Stonewall Inn.

Answer 18

New York City

Question 19

_____ became the first state to permit same-sex marriage.

Answer 19

Massachusetts

Question 20

In 2015, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges made _____ a civil right nationwide.

Answer 20

same-sex marriage