Exam 5: Civil Rights

In 2007,the federal government failed to pass major new immigration legislation.

Ten years after Brown v.Board of Education,______ percent of black children in the Deep South attended school with white children.

What goal did members of the abolitionist movement pursue?

What was the ultimate destination of the Underground Railroad?

When state legislatures draw electoral district boundaries in ways that favor themselves,it is called redlining.

Desegregating schools in northern states proved to be difficult because

The right to vote was strengthened in 1975 when Congress

The term peculiar institution described

How did the Supreme Court justify its decision to strike down the southern practice of "white primaries?"

Which of the following best describes the federal courts' trend toward school desegregation in the 1990s?

In ______,the Supreme Court permitted busing children as a way of bringing about desegregation of schools.

What is the name for school segregation that results from racially divided neighborhoods rather than state laws?

What forbade workplace discrimination based on race?

Which statement about the Reconstruction era is false?

In a case of workplace discrimination,which government institution would most likely handle the complaint?

Which of the following statements about the abolitionist movement is false?

The rights of disabled individuals to both access public businesses and not be discriminated against in employment are guaranteed by

In their response to Brown v.Board of Education,southern states did all of the following except

In 1870,the Fifteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote.

Describe the history of legalized racial discrimination in the United States since the end of the Civil War.What was the Fourteenth Amendment intended to accomplish,and how did the Supreme Court limit its protections in the late nineteenth century? What were the Jim Crow laws?