PLSC Worksheet 5

PLSC Worksheet 5 In the 1944 case of Smith v Allwright, the United States Supreme court ruled the _______ to be a violation of the fifteenth amendment - ✔✔white primary in 2003, the united states supreme court conside ...

PLSC Worksheet 5 In the 1944 case of Smith v Allwright, the United States Supreme court ruled the _______ to be a violation of the fifteenth amendment - ✔✔white primary in 2003, the united states supreme court considered two different admissions policies adopted at the university of michigan and - ✔✔approved affirmative action plans that took race into consideration as part of a complete examination of the applicant's background which of the following statements concerning the Civil Rights Act of 1866 is false? - ✔✔it was quickly vetoed by president andrew jackson the congressional union for woman suffrage was founded by - ✔✔alice paul the ______ kept blacks from voting in the democratic party's primaries - ✔✔white primary ______ forbade discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin - ✔✔the civil rights act of 1964 the modern movement for gay and lesbian rights began - ✔✔in 1969, following the stonewall inn incident in the context of civil rights, ________ is the transportation of public school students from areas where they live to schools in other areas - ✔✔busing a practice, policy, or procedure that denies equality of treatment to an individual or to a group because of gender - ✔✔is gender discrimination the reconstruction statutes, or civil rights acts, ultimately - ✔✔did little to secure equality for african americans the contrasting image of nonviolent african americans and violent, hostile whites created - ✔✔strong public support for the civil rights movement the policy in admissions or hiring that gives special consideration to traditionally disadvantaged groups to overcome the present effects of past discrimination is known as - ✔✔affirmative action all of the following are true regarding the aftermath of brown v board of education except - ✔✔almost all schools achieved racial balance within a decade which of the following did not happen after, or as a result of, the civil rights cases of 1883? - ✔✔african americans earned equality with whites today, most immigrants to the United States come from - ✔✔latin america and asia which of the following best describes de jure segregation? - ✔✔segregation that occurs because of laws or administrative decisions by public agencies _____ occurs when an employee is subjected to sexual conduct or comments that interefere with the employee's job performance - ✔✔hostile-environment harassment which of the following best describes de facto segregation - ✔✔segregation that occurs because of patterns or racial residence and similar social conditions an attempt to maintain white supremacy included - ✔✔lynching the defense of marriage act of 1996 - ✔✔bans federal recognition of lesbian and gay couples the legislation resulting from the civil rights movement - ✔✔ultimately benefited almost all minority groups the tests commonly administered as a precondition for voting were called - ✔✔literacy tests the supreme court's ruling in the civil rights cases of 1883 meant that - ✔✔discriminatory acts of private citizens were not legal many observers consider the _______ to be the beginning of the feminist movement - ✔✔founding of the national organization for women (NOW) in his leadership of the civil rights movement, Dr. MLK jr advocated - ✔✔nonviolent civil disobedience the fourteenth amendment does all of the following except - ✔✔states that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race provisions of the fifteenth amendment - ✔✔state that the right to vote shall not be abridged on account of race a nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws is called - ✔✔civil disobedience the equal rights amendment was - ✔✔not ratified by the necessary thirty-eight states immigrants who are not yet citizens possess - ✔✔fewer civil rights than any other identifiable group in the US Betty Friedan's The feminine mystique - ✔✔focused national attention on the unequal status of women in american life discrimination against individuals who are not members of a minority group is called - ✔✔reverse discrimination in plessy v ferguson, the court held that - ✔✔social segregation did not violate the constitution all of the following regarding women's rights is false except - ✔✔women have had to struggle for equality just like african americans and other minorities in the regents of the university of california v bakke case, the supreme court held that - ✔✔race cannot be the only factor in an admissions decision the supreme court's opinion in adarant constructors inc v pena means that once an affirmative action program has succeeded in achieving the purpose it was tailored to meet, the program - ✔✔must be changed or dropped which of the following best describes president obama's original stanf on gay men and lesbians in the military - ✔✔he promised to repeal the "dont ask dont tell" policy enacted in 1963, the ________ requires employers to provide equal pay for substantially equal work - ✔✔equal pay act in brown v board of education of topeka (1954), the US supreme court - ✔✔ruled that segregation of races in the public schools is unconstitutional US laws that required separate drinking fountains, separate seats in theaters, and separate waiting rooms for the two races were known as - ✔✔jim crow laws a poll tax was used to - ✔✔exclude poor african americans as well as poor whites from voting the phrase "dont ask dont tell" refers to a policy toward gay men and lesbians - ✔✔allowing them to serve in the military so long as they did not declare that they were gay or commit homosexual acts according to the thirteenth amendment - ✔✔neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the united states the brown decision applied to - ✔✔only public schools the doctrine that was born of the plessy v ferguson case was known as - ✔✔separate but equal all of the following are true except that - ✔✔civil liberties and civil rights are the same thing the fertility rate is best definied as the average number of children - ✔✔women in a particular group will have over a lifetime in the 2003 decision of lawrence v texas, the united states supreme court - ✔✔held that laws against sodomy violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment when president _______ appointed sandra Day O'Connor to the United States supreme court, the appointment was an historic first - ✔✔ronald regan one major provision of the voting rights act of 1965 was that it - ✔✔outlawed discriminatory voter-registration tests