Civil Rights Multiple Choice Flashcards

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What are civil rights

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Protections for individuals from discrimination

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2
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What is the Americans with disabilities act

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You can’t discriminate against employments in those with disabilities

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What was the emancipation proclamation and when did it occur

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During civil war in 1863 done by President Lincoln it ended slavery

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4
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What were black codes

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To restrict freedom of black citizens

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5
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What were Jim Crow laws

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Laws that enforced segregation in the south

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6
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Describe ways black citizens were denied the right to vote

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Violence, poll taxes and literacy’s tests

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7
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What was de jure segregation

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Legal segregation

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8
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What was de facto segregation

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Is not legal segregation but segregation based on patterns

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9
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What is affirmative action

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Any programs that are aimed at expanding opportunities for women and minorities groups

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10
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What do proponents of affirmative action believe

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Believe it is message to make up for past discrimination in order to achieve equality

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What is opponent of affirmative action believe

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Believe it si reverse discrimination and think ti makes it more difficult for more qualified

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12
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How did the Supreme Court rule regarding affirmative action in the case of regents of the university of California versus bakle

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Racials quotients are unconstitutional

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How did the Supreme Court rule regarding affirmative action in the case of regents the university of gratz vs bollinger

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The undergraduate admissions policy is unconstitutional but they upheld graduate schools admissions policy

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14
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What is social movement

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A large group of citizens organized for political change

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What is civil disobedience

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Intentional refusal to obey a law to call attention to its injustice

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16
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What occurred to the segregation of the Montgomery boycott

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Boycott that lasted over a year until the courts ruled bus rule was unconstitutional

17
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What was the southern Christian leadership conference?

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Advocated for civil rights and challenged racial segregation

18
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What methods did MLK use challenge unjust laws what was he threatened with and sometimes accused as a result of

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Advocated for civil disobedience threatened with imprisonment and violence

19
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List several methods of civil disobedience in the south 1950-1960

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Freedom riders that challenged segregated transportation or boycotts or sit ins and refusing to give up bus seat

20
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What was the book by the feminine mystique about and who wrote it

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Betty friden many woman weren’t happy being stay at home wives

21
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What is NOW

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National organization for women advocate for equal rights for women

22
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What is the equal rights amendment and what did it pass

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People shall not be denied by the usnited states or any state by sex

It Passes proposal stage but not ratification

23
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13th amendment

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abolished slavary in the us

24
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14th amendment

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-Privileges and immunities of the us
-due process of the law
-equal protection of the law

25
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19th amendment

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Granted women right to vote through us

26
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24th amendment

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Band poll taxes in all federal elections

27
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26th amendment

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Lowered voting age to 18

28
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Dred Scott vs Stanford

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Slaves arnt citizens and can’t become citizens

29
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Plessy vs Ferguson

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Case that came up with standard of separate but equal

30
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Brown vs board of education

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Racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional under equal protection clauses 14th amendment

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Civil rights act of 1964

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Prohibited employment discrimination based on race or gender
Outlaws segregation by all businesses

32
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Voting rights act of 1965

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Had greatest affect on voting by black Americans
And outlaws literacy test

33
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Title IX of the educational amendment of 1972

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Prohibited sex discrimination and provided sports programs for girls

34
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Know basic infra bout letter from A Birmingham Jail

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2 types of laws just and unjust that were is a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws such as segregation

35
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Who were some of the main leaders of the women’s suffrage movement

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Elizabeth cady Stanton, Susan b Anthony, and sojourner truth suffrage is the right to vote

36
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What was the different between the first wave of women’s rights movement and the second wave of the women’s rights movements

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First wave give women right to vote
2nd wave to grant equality in employment and additional areas

37
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What was the NAACP

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pushing for equal facilities for black citizens

38
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15 amendments

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pushing for equal facilities for black citizens