Civil Rights Ch. 5

Question 1

What Is LULAC?

Answer 1

League of United Latin American Citizens (1929)

Question 2

What is Title IX?

Answer 2

Provision of the Education Amendments of the 1972 that bars educational institutions that receive federal funds from discriminating against female students

Question 3

What is Title VII?

Answer 3

Of the Clvil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits gender discrimination by private (and after 1972, public) employers.

Question 4

Hernandez v. Texas

Answer 4

The Court ruled unanimously that Mexican Americans had the right to a jury that included other Mexican Americans

Question 5

Cesar Chavez and Dolores de la Huerta

Answer 5

Organized migrant workers into the United Farm Workers Union and led them into a stroke against produce growers in California

Question 6

What is MALDEF and PRLDEF?

Answer 6

Key Hispanic groups that secure funds to bilingual schools and litigate to promote Latino politics.

Question 7

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

Answer 7

Restricts the immigration of any identifiable nationality.

Question 8

Affirmative Action

Answer 8

Policies designed to give special attention or compensatory treatment to members of previously disadvantaged groups.

Question 9

Civil Rights

Answer 9

The Governments-Protected rights of individuals against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by governments or individuals.

Question 10

Missouri Compromise

Answer 10

The Compromise prohibited slavery north of the geographical boundary at 36 degrees latitude.

Question 11

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 11

One of the three Civil War Amendments; specifically bans slavery in the United States.

Question 12

The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

Answer 12

Attendees passed resolutions demanding abolition of legal, economic and social discrimination against women.

Question 13

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 13

All slaves in states still in active rebellion against the United States would be freed automatically on January 1, 1863.

Question 14

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 14

One of the three Civil War Amendments; guarantees equal protection and due process of the law to all US citizens.

Question 15

Equal Protection Clause

Answer 15

Section of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees all citizens receive “equal protection of the laws”.

Question 16

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 16

One forge three Civil War Amendments; specifically enfranchised newly freed male slaves.

Question 17

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 17

Laws enacted by southern states that required segregation in public schools, theaters, hotels, and other public accommodations.

Question 18

Black Codes

Answer 18

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War.

Question 19

Civil Rights Cases 1883

Answer 19

Name attached to five cases brought under the Civil Rights Acts of 1875. In 1883, the Supreme Court decided that discrimination in a variety of public accommodations could not be prohibited by the act because such discrimination was private, not state, discrimination.

Question 20

Poll tax

Answer 20

A tax levied in many southern states and localities that had to be paid before an eligible voter could cast a ballot.

Question 21

Grandfather Clause

Answer 21

Voter qualification provision in many southern states that allowed only those citizens whose grandfathers had voted before the Reconstruction to vote unless they passed a wealth or literacy test.

Question 22

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Answer 22

Supreme Court case that challenged a Louisiana statute requiring that railroads provide separate accommodations for black and whites. The Court found that separate-but-equal accommodations did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 23

Suffrage Movement

Answer 23

The drive for voting rights for women that took place in the United States from 1890 to 1920.

Question 24

Nineteenth Amendment

Answer 24

Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed women the right to vote.

Question 25

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 25

US Supreme Court decision holding that school segregation is inherently unconstitutional because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.

Question 26

What is SCLC?

Answer 26

Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 27

What is SNCC?

Answer 27

Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

Question 28

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 28

Wide-ranging legislation passed by Congress to outlaw segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment, education, and voting; created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Question 29

Equal Rights Amendment

Answer 29

Proposed amendment to the Constitution that states “Equality or rights under the law shall not be denied or abridge by the United States or any state on account of sex”

Question 30

What is NOW?

Answer 30

National organization of women

Question 31

Suspect Classification

Answer 31

Category or class, such as race, that triggers the highest standard of scrutiny from the Supreme Court.

Question 32

Strict Scrutiny

Answer 32

A heighten standard of review used by the Supreme Court to determine the constitutional validity of a challenged practice.

Question 33

What is AAPD?

Answer 33

American Association of People with Disabilities.