Civil Rights Reading Quiz

Question 0

Jim Crow laws

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Segregated blacks from whites in virtually all public facilities including schools, restaurants, hotels, and bathrooms

Question 1

Suspect categories

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Divisions in society, such as sex, race, ethnicity

Discrimination based on age, disability, and sexual preference

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Plessy v Ferguson

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Supported segregation laws

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National Association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP)

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Founded to promote the enforcement of civil rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th amendments

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Civil rights act of 1964

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Banned racial discrimination in public and voter registration and allowed the government to withhold federal funds from states and local areas not complying with the law

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24th amendment

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Banned paying a tax to vote ( the poll tax ) – a practice intended to keep blacks from voting

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Voting rights act of 1965

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Outlawed literacy tests and allowed federal officials to register new voters

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Office of economic opportunity

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Set guidelines for equal hiring and education practices

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Busing

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Ordered by courts in many school districts to integrate schools

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Meredith v Jefferson County Board of Education

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challenged the schools plan on the basis that it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment

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Parents involved in community schools v Seattle school district #1

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challenged the schools plan on the basis that it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment (#)

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Reservations

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Land given to Native Americans as tribes by treaties with the US government

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Native American rights fund

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Money for Native Americans

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Suffrage movement

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Right to vote

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Document of sentiments

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Modeled after the Declaration of Independence signed by 100 men and women that endorsed the suffrage movement

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19th amendment

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Allowed women to vote

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Reasonableness standard

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Law that enforces different treatment must be “reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest on some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.”

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“Strict scrutiny” standard

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Used to judge racial classifications (which are “suspect” classifications): some distinctions based on Sex are permitted and some are not

EXAMPLE: buying bear for men and women must be same age law

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Rostker v. Goldberg

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Congress may require men but not women to register for the draft without violating the due process clause of the 5th amendment

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Equal rights amendment

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“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the US or any state on account of sex”

Congress passed the amend but it never made it through the ratification process

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Roe v. Wade

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Broke the tradition of allowing states to decide availability of abortions within state boundaries

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Pro choice v. Pro life

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Women can abort

No abortion

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Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

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Court upheld some state restrictions on abortions but refuses to overturn roe

EXAMPLE: 24 hrs between asking and receiving abortion

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Title VII of the civil rights act

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Prohibits gender discrimination in employment, and has been used to strike down many previous work policies

Amended and expanded to discrimination based on pregnancy

Amended and expanded to sexual harassment (sex for job)

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“Equal pay for equal work”

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Women should be paid as much as men for their jobs

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Comparable worth

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Requires that a worker be paid by the “worth” of his or her work, not by what employers are willing to pay

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Ledbetter v Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

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Women paid less money than men in job

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AARP: American Association of Retired Persons

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Successfully lobbies congress to consider the rights of older Americans in policy areas such as health, housing, taxes, and transportation

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Hardwick v. Georgia

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First time gay rights were addressed.

Georgia’s law forbidding homosexual relations was constitutional

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Original intent

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Intent of the founders

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Lawrence v. Texas

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Laws against sodomy violate the due process clause of the 14th amendment

Question 31

Bakke v. California

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Questioned the quota practices of the university of California medical school at Davis

Bakke = white … Sued state for reverse discrimination (didn’t get accepted)

Court rules in his favor

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United Steelworkers v. Weber

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Sued for Reverse discrimination

Court rules that private companies can set their own policies and gov cannot forbid quotas

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Richmond v. Croson

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City of Richmond : plan to Subcontract 30% of its business to minority companies shut down by court

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Coverture

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Deprived married women of any identity separate of that of their husbands