Chapter 5

Question 1

The law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination

Answer 1

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 2

The issue raised when women who hold traditionally female jobs are paid less than men for working at jobs requiring equal skill

Answer 2

Comparable Worth

Question 3

A law passed in 1990 that requires employers and public facilities to make “reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against these individuals in employment

Answer 3

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Question 4

Part of the 14th amendment emphasizing that the laws must provide equivalent “protection” to all people

Answer 4

Equal Protection of the laws

Question 5

A constitutional amendment originally introduced in congress in Congress in 1923 and passed in 1972, stating that equality should not be denied on account of sex

Answer 5

Equal Rights Amendment

Question 6

The Constitutional amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African American

Answer 6

15th Amendment

Question 7

The legal right to vote, extended to African AMericans by the 15th amendment to women by the 19th, 18th, and 26

Answer 7

Suffrage

Question 8

The constitutional amendment ratified after the civil war that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude

Answer 8

13th amendment

Question 9

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the u.s., nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

Answer 9

14th Amendment

Question 10

The Constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote

Answer 10

19th Amendment

Question 11

The Constitutional amendment passed in 1964 that declared poll taxes void in federal elections

Answer 11

24th Amendment

Question 12

Small taxes levied on the right to vote that often fell due at a time of year when African Americans sharecroppers had the least cash on hand

Answer 12

Poll taxes

Question 13

A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American Suffrage

Answer 13

Voting Rights of 1965

Question 14

one of the means used to discourage African Americans voting that permitted political parties in the heavily Democratic South to exclude African Americans from primary election, thus depriving them of a voice in real contests

Answer 14

White Primary

Question 15

A policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group

Answer 15

Affirmative Action

Question 16

Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals

Answer 16

Civil Rights