Exam 5: Civil Rights

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

The women's rights movement was often linked with the abolitionist movement during the nineteenth century.

Which area was not covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

California Proposition 209 was designed to

It was during the tenure of Chief Justice ______ that the Supreme Court established gender discrimination as a highly visible area of civil rights law.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 attempted to

Affirmative action programs were first established in the 1960s.

After Brown v. Board of Education, schools in the South quickly desegregated.

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

What was the purpose of California's Proposition 187?

What best explains the increased attention the federal government paid to the problem of racial discrimination during the 1940s?

Who inaugurated government affirmative action programs?

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

The Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. was significant because

The constitutional authority of Congress to forbid discrimination in employment is based on the

Which group was excluded from immigrating to the United States from the late nineteenth century until the 1940s?

Which of the following statements best describes the impact of the Voting Rights Act on voter registration in southern states?

In dealing with the issue of gays in the military, President Bill Clinton established a

Which statement about the Reconstruction era is false?

To draw voting districts so that one group or party is unfairly advantaged is called