Exam 3: Politics

List two reasons that the church served as an institutional hub for the Civil Rights Movement.

What was the name of the policy that prohibited voter discrimination,outlawed literacy tests,and gave the federal government power to oversee voter registration?

Explain Alexis de Tocqueville's concept of the tyranny of the majority.

In 2015,thirteen students were arrested at the University of Minnesota when they conducted a sit-in at the president's office in an attempt to protest the lack of diversity in the faculty.These protestors most clearly followed in the tradition of which group?

Contemporary welfare programs tend to focus on changing individual behavior-teaching clients to be more responsible,productive workers-rather than on addressing systemic inequality.In what tradition do such programs follow?

Compare and contrast the black Civil Rights Movement with civil rights organizing among Native Americans,Mexican Americans,or Asian Americans.What goals,strategies,and outcomes did they share?

Assuming that President Barack Obama would advocate exclusively for the interests of people of color simply because he is a person of color is an example of what?

The majority of whites are registered members of which political party?

Hillary Clinton's remarks during the 2008 presidential primaries,in which she stated that "hardworking" "white Americans" were supporting her and not Senator Obama,are an example of which of the following concepts?

César Chávez,one of the most important Mexican American activists,led the 1965 Delano grape strike.What was the purpose of this action?

Who has attempted to secure political advantage through gerrymandering?

Well into the mid-twentieth century,white planters gave blacks a small piece of land on which to grow crops and live often in squalid shacks).In return,blacks gave white planters a portion of their crops.This process was called what?

In the mid-1950s,civil rights organizing shifted away from a ______ organization and toward a focus on _________ groups?

In a National Election Study,90 percent of blacks thought the U.S.government should ensure fair treatment of blacks.What percentage of whites thought the same thing?

What was the social significance of Emmett Till's murder?

Most white Americans consistently have accepted the principle of racial inclusion while rejecting many of the policy measures designed to carry it out.What is this phenomenon called?

What part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC)was Ella Baker critical of?

The white voting population grows by _____ percent each year,and the Hispanic voting population grows by ______ percent each year.

The collection of organizations and people who carried out political acts aimed at abolishing racial segregation,nonwhite disenfranchisement,and economic exploitation is called what?