Civil Rights:

Question 1

Civil Rights:

Answer 1

Obligations that government has to protect citizens from discrimination and to guarantee equal citizenship

Question 2

Racial Discrimination:

Answer 2

Dred Scott V. Sanford

Question 3

Dred Scott V. Sanford

Answer 3

Set the precedent that slaves were property

Question 4

14th Amendment:

Answer 4

Equal Protection Clause

Question 5

Equal Protection Clause:

Answer 5

No state may deny any person equal protection of law

Question 6

Discrimination Categories:

Answer 6

• Race
• Gender
• Age
• Disablitly
• Sexual Orientation

Question 7

Segregation:

Answer 7

Separation of People

Question 8

De Jure

Answer 8

Seperation by Law

Question 9

De Facto

Answer 9

Seperation by differences

-income, housing patterns, educational opportunities, socioeconomic status

Question 10

Jim Crow Laws:

Answer 10

State and local laws enacted in the south that required speration of African Americans and whites in public facilities and placed legal restrictions on blacks to prevent from voting

Question 11

Segregation Cases:

Answer 11

• Plessy V. Ferguson

- Brown V. Board of Education Topeka

Question 12

Plessy V. Ferguson

Answer 12

Allowed segregation through separate but equal doctrine

Supreme court said if facilities were equal, it was acceptable to separate by race

Question 13

Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 13

Overturned Plessy; Integration of public schools “with all deliberate speed”

Question 14

Civil Rights Movement:

Answer 14

Led by Martin Luther King, NAACP, & Thurgood Marshall

Question 15

Introduced Civil Disobedience:

Answer 15

Breaking the law to get it changed (Rosa Parks at the front of the bus)

Question 16

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 16

Stooped public segregation, job discrimination

SUNSHINE LAWS

Question 17

Sunshine Laws:

Answer 17

• All congressional meetings must be public

- Extended to all groups of people

Question 18

Voting Rights Act of 1965:

Answer 18

Ensured Minority right to Vote

-Worked to end poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause

Question 19

Affirmative Action:

Answer 19

Aimed at increasing representation of women and minorities.

Question 20

Reverse Discrimination:

Answer 20

Discrimination against a MAJORITY group

Question 21

Regents of the University of California V. Bakke

Answer 21

Reverse Discrimination Case

Question 22

Who organized the womens rights convention in 1848?

Answer 22

Susan B. Anthony

Question 23

19th Amendment, 1920

Answer 23

Gave women suffrage (right to vote)

Question 24

Comparable work:

Answer 24

Equal pay for equal work for women in 1963

Question 25

Equal Rights Amendment:

Answer 25

Guarantee for Equality