Exam 5: Civil Rights

The expectation that equality is achieved if results are comparable for all citizens regardless of race, gender, or national background, and that all citizens are proportionally represented in measures of success in life is known as 000571

The _________ was an act passed by Congress in 1963 that prohibits employers from paying different wages for the same job on account of sex.

Full-fledged membership in a nation is called

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln __________, which made slavery illegal in those states in rebellion as of January 1, 1863.

Discuss at least three ways that African Americans were politically disenfranchised after the Civil War. Also, briefly discuss how the federal government rectified this disenfranchisement.

What is profiling? Why is it discriminatory?

Congress first allowed nonwhites to become naturalized citizens in __________, when it extended naturalization to "persons of African descent."

Identify the groups that have been denied rights to U.S. citizenship.

Discuss women's suffrage, including ways that suffrage was hindered and expanded.

In Dred Scott v. Sandford , the Supreme Court declared that

Why did groups such as the NAACP and LULAC look to the courts to assistance in establishing legal equality?

The fastest growing ethnic group in the United States today is

Discuss how both law and public opinion have shifted over gay rights since the Stonewall riots.

The Supreme Court's ruling in  Plessy v. Ferguson  established the doctrine of

The__________ of 1866 guaranteed the right of freedmen to make contracts, sue in court if those contracts were violated, and own property.

Briefly identify rules that southern states put in place to disenfranchise African American voters.

In the landmark case  Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools violated the

Southern politicians used all of the following tactics to disenfranchise African American voters EXCEPT

How many states banned sodomy at the time of the Stonewall riots?

The fact that President Roosevelt ordered the placement of Japanese Americans in relocation camps (and the order was upheld in  Korematsu v. United States), yet German Americans were not rounded up (despite pro-Nazi groups), suggests that