Chapter 5 Civil Rights

Question 1

Who challenged Montgomery, Alabama’s segregation laws in the 1950s?

Answer 1

Rosa Parks

Question 2

Who organized the bus boycott that followed the challenge of the segregation laws?

Answer 2

Martin Luther King

Question 3

What is the term for policies designed to protect people against arbitrary discrimination?

Answer 3

Civil rights

Question 4

Equality does not mean equal results or rewards but equality of ___________.

Answer 4

Opportunity

Question 5

Which amendment addresses the issue of equality?

Answer 5

14th

Question 6

Which specific clause addresses the issue of equality?

Answer 6

Equal protection clause

Question 7

Which SC case ruled that black Americans had no rights?

Answer 7

Scott v. Sandford

Question 8

Which SC case upheld the Constitutionality of “separate but equal”?

Answer 8

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 9

Which case overturned “separate but equal”?

Answer 9

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 10

What law prohibited racial discrimination in services and employment?

Answer 10

Civil right act 1964

Question 11

What was the purpose of poll taxes?

Answer 11

To exclude African Americans from voting

Question 12

What law was designed to end suffrage discrimination against African Americans?

Answer 12

Voting rights act of 1965

Question 13

List two cases that dealt with the issue of racial gerrymandering.

Answer 13

Thornburg v. Gingles

Jones v. Mayer

Question 14

What is the term for the minority population outnumbering Americans of european descent?

Answer 14

Minority majority

Question 15

What law forced Native Americans to assimilate into white culture, banning tribal rituals and languages, and placed Native children in boarding schools?

Answer 15

Dawes Act of 1887

Question 16

When were Native Americans granted voting rights?

Answer 16

1924

Question 17

Which is the largest minority group?

Answer 17

Hispanic Americans

Question 18

Which SC case protected Hispanic Americans’ right to a fair trial and widened the definition of discrimination beyond race?

Answer 18

Hernandez v. Texas

Question 19

Which case upheld the constitutionally of the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII?

Answer 19

Korematsu v. U.S.

Question 20

Which amendment granted women the right to vote?

Answer 20

19th amendment

Question 21

Why didn’t the Equal Rights amendment pass?

Answer 21

Saw ERA as a threat to family

Question 22

List two important cases over gender discrimination.

Answer 22

Reed v. Reed

Craig v. Bored

Question 23

What law prohibits gender discrimination in federally subsidized educational programs, including athletics?

Answer 23

Title IX Education Act of 1972

Question 24

According to the SC’s decision in the Harris v. Forklift Systems case sexual harassment occurs when “the workplace environment is reasonably perceived as ________ or _________.

Answer 24

Hostile or abusive

Question 25

Name two ways the military legally treats women different than men.

Answer 25

1. Only men register for the draft when they turn 18. | 2. Statues and regulation prohibit women from serving on combat.

Question 26

Did the Age Discrimination Act banned all or only some forms of age discrimination?

Answer 26

Only some

Question 27

What law requires employers to public facilities to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities?

Answer 27

Americans with disabilities act of 1990

Question 28

"Stonewall Democrats" are a branch of the democratic party primarily concerned with what issue?

Answer 28

Gay Rights

Question 29

What SC case ruled states could ban homosexual relations?

Answer 29

Bowers v. Hardwick

Question 30

Name two cases that supported gay rights.

Answer 30

Romer v. Evans | Lawrence v. Texas

Question 31

What law allowed states to disregard same sex marriages performed in other states?

Answer 31

Defense of Marriage Act of 1996

Question 32

What is the name for policies designed to give compensatory treatment for members of previously disadvantaged groups?

Answer 32

Affirmative action

Question 33

What SC case ruled state universities could not set racial quotas in admission policies?

Answer 33

Regents of the university of California V. Bakke

Question 34

What case ruled that universities could use race as a factor in admission to promote diversity?

Answer 34

Grutter v. Bollinger