Acts 1960s and others

Question 1

24th amendment

Answer 1

1964- right to vote can’t be abridged by failure to pay poll tax

Question 2

civil rights act 1964

Answer 2

federal courts hear cases ivolving discrimination in voting, public facilities, and education

Question 3

Civil rigts act 1965

Answer 3

passed the 15th amendment into law (voting)

Question 4

executive order 1965

Answer 4

discrimination barred in all federal employment, called for affirmative action

Question 5

immigration act

Answer 5

ended immigration quotas

Question 6

executive order 1971/2?

Answer 6

all employers with federal contracts to draft affirmative action policies

Question 7

act 1972

Answer 7

extended equal employment legislation to all federal, state, and local governments

Question 8

civil rights act 1991

Answer 8

burden on businesses to prove discrimination to hiring was genuine need of the business not racially motivated

Question 9

taft-hartley act

Answer 9

1947, limited power of unions

Question 10

sherman ant trust act

Answer 10

1890, tried to limit companies creating a monopoly over a trade

Question 11

Wagner act

Answer 11

1935, NLRB, collective bargaining, right to exist, no spys

Question 12

fair labour standards act

Answer 12

1938/9 minmum wage

Question 13

equal pay act

Answer 13

1963, genders

Question 14

economic opportunities act

Answer 14

1964, funds to train people and increase their employment prospectives

Question 15

age discrimination in employment act

Answer 15

1968, protected workers over 40

Question 16

occupational safety and health

Answer 16

1970, attempt to make working envrinoments hazard free

Question 17

dawes act

Answer 17

1887, turned NAs into landowners, paid tax, plots/allottments etc

Question 18

wheeler howard act

Answer 18

1934, religion, ceremonial dances, political rights to women, in theory preventing sale of NA land to individual buyers

Question 19

indian education act

Answer 19

1972, increased money avaliable for schools on reservations

Question 20

indian self determinationa ct

Answer 20

1975, tribes could take responsibility for themselves, although federal funding was still provided

Question 21

indian educationa ssisstance act

Answer 21

1975, NAs had greater involvement in their childs educational process

Question 22

NA religious freedom act

Answer 22

1978, follow trad religions, rituals, sacred objects. SC refused to back it

Question 23

indian child welfare act

Answer 23

1978, regulated removal of NA children from their families

Question 24

19th amendment

Answer 24

gave women the right to vote

Question 25

equal rights amendment

Answer 25

intended to make women and men equal in the eyes of the law however conservatives worried equal rights would remove protectiosn for women and it was passed in 1972 with an amendment exempting women from the draft

Question 26

civil rights act 1866

Answer 26

brithright citizenship

Question 27

first reconstruction act

Answer 27

constitutents comprised of elected delegates

Question 28

14th amendemnt

Answer 28

no state could denty any person full rights as an american citizen

Question 29

15 amendment

Answer 29

rights cannot be abridged on condtion of race

Question 30

first enforcement act

Answer 30

banned discrimination

Question 31

second enforcement act

Answer 31

overturned state laws preventing AA from voting

Question 32

third enforcement act

Answer 32

kkk act

Question 33

civil rights act 1875

Answer 33

public accomodations act- later overturned by the supremem court