chapter 5: Civil Rights Flashcards
The Equal Rights Amendment failed because
it fell three states short of sufficient verification
Age discrimination laws have
Denied federal funds to any institution discriminating against people over forty
In the case of _________, the Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action programs were not unconstitutional, but they could not set aside quota of spots available only to members of particular groups
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Comparable worth” refers to the of
Paying men and woman equivalent salaries for jobs requiring similar skills
Which of the following statements about Native Americans is false?
Native Americans were made citizens of the U.S> long before African Americans accepted the same status
Poll taxes for federal elections were outlawed in the
24th Amendment
Which of the following statements about the Equal Rights Amendment is false?
The ERA was ratified in 1982, it was never passed
Civil Rights
Are policies extended basic rights to groups historically subject to discrimination
________ was a young liberal minister who was thrust into the natural spotlight in 1955-1956 as the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
MLK
The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down each of the following decisions concerning gender discrimination in employment and business activity EXCEPT
requiring federal government to give women equal pay for jobs of comparable worth
Which of the following statements about affirmative action is false?
polling data shows that most Americans support affirmative action
In ________, the Supreme Court ruled that any “arbitrary” sex-based classification violated the equal protection clause
Reed v. Reed
The Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling was handed down by the Supreme Court
A few years prior to the Civil War
The Brown v. Board of Education decision overturned the Supreme Court’s 1892 ruling in
Plessy v. Ferguson
Suffrage refers to
the right to vote
In the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the US Supreme court
Ruled that a black man, slave or free, was “chattel,” and upheld slavery as constitutional
The _______ amendment outlawed slavery in the US
13th
Jim Crow laws
imposed legal segregation on African Americans in the South after the Civil War
De jure educational segregation occurs
by law
The Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. US (1944)
upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during WWI
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeaka was based on which of the following?
14th amend, guarantee equal protection
Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men were created equal,” believed
blacks were inferior to whites
The 14th amendment specifically forbids the states from denying anyone
equal protection of the laws
The white primary
Excludes blacks from primary elections thus depriving them of a voice in the real electoral contests in the South
Which of the following is a provision of federal election laws?
on site registration to vote may be permitted on the day of any federal election
Affirmative actions seeks to work beyond
equal opportunity = equal results
Classification by race & ethnicity have now been ruled by the Court to be accepted only in_______
laws seeking to remedy previous discrimination
After Brown v. Board, school integration in the South ______
proceeded very slowly
American society greatly emphasizes equal ______
opportunity
Following the Civil War, the 14th amendment to the US Constitution was designed to overturn the ____
Dred Scott decision
The grandfather clause is significant in the US political history for which of the following reasons?
It was a means whereby black citizens in southern states were disenfranchised*
Brown v. Board of Ed. of Topeka (1954) was a significant SCOTUS ruling because _____
it held the “separate but equal” concept to be a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment
The women’s rights movement was launched with the signing of the
Seneca Falls Declaration
The phrase “all men are created equally” comes from the
Declaration of Independence
Classification based on gender has been ruled to be __________
somewhere between inherently suspect and reasonable
De facto educational segregation occurs
by the reality of neighborhood schools (idk what this says) that happen to be racially segregated
The _________ 1964 banned gender discrimination in employment by law
Civil Rights Act of
The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a significant political event because ________________
it was instrumental in increasing the number of African American voters
The SCOTUS has ruled that racial and ethnic classifications are _____
inherently suspect
The ___ Amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote
19th
The “gray liberation” movement refers to those fighting for ___________
the rights of the elderly
Alice Paul authored the Equal RIght Amendment & unsuccessfully pushed for its passage in the ____
1920s
The Plessy v. Ferguson, the SCOTUS ruled that state imposed racial segregation is constitutional based on the
separate but equal doctrine
The 1991 convention of the Tailhook Association of naval aviators experienced a celebrated case of sexual harassment when ___________________________________________________________
male aviators lined a hotel hawllway & groped and kissed women trying to get to their rooms
Affirmative action programs are referred to by critics as ______________-_
reverse discrimination
