Download Quiz 3 | POLS 1101 - American Government and more Quizzes Local Government Studies in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 What is the key question behind civil rights protection? DEFINITION 1 What is the proper meaning of equality? TERM 2 When did civil rights become part of the US constitution? DEFINITION 2 The ratification of the 14th amendment TERM 3 Most of the government's positive actions associated with the civil rights issue in the US stem from the application of.. DEFINITION 3 The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the constitution TERM 4 Which case helped lead to the civil war? DEFINITION 4 Dred Scott v. Sandford TERM 5 What goal did members of the abolitionist movement pursue? DEFINITION 5 The end of slavery TERM 6 What does the term Jim Crow refer to? DEFINITION 6 The system of racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction TERM 7 Which amendments seemed to offer African Americans the most hope for achieving full citizenship rights in the US? DEFINITION 7 13th, 14th, and 15th TERM 8 What was the supreme court's response to the Civil Rights Act of 1875? DEFINITION 8 Declared the act unconstitutional because it protected against acts of private discrimination, not state discrimination TERM 9 Supreme Court's rule in Plessy v. Ferguson DEFINITION 9 Established separate but equal rule TERM 10 A. Philip Randolph DEFINITION 10 During WWII he forced the federal government to address discriminatory hiring practices by threatening massive labor marches on Washington, D.C. TERM 21 10 years after Brown v. Board of Education ___% of black children in the Deep South attended school with white children. DEFINITION 21 1% TERM 22 The first federal civil rights law passed by Congress since 1875 came in what year? DEFINITION 22 1957 TERM 23 Which areas were covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964? DEFINITION 23 Employment Public Accommodations School Desegregation TERM 24 How did Congress vastly expand the role of the exec. branch and the credibility of court orders in the Civil Rights Act of 1964? DEFINITION 24 By requiring that the federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments for education be withheld from any school system practicing racial segregation. TERM 25 One step taken towards the desegregation of public schools was... DEFINITION 25 Busing children from poor urban school districts to wealthier suburban ones. TERM 26 What did the Supreme Court rule in 1971? DEFINITION 26 That busing children was a way of bringing about desegregation. TERM 27 What city was the setting for a major racial confrontation concerning school busing? DEFINITION 27 Boston TERM 28 What was the federal court's trend toward school desegregation since the 1990's? DEFINITION 28 The courts decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation TERM 29 Why did desegregating schools in the northern states provide to be very difficult? DEFINITION 29 Because segregation in the north was generally de facto, the product of both segregated housing and acts of private discrimination that were hard to prove. TERM 30 In a case of workplace discrimination, which gov institution would most likely handle the complaint DEFINITION 30 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission TERM 31 Redlining DEFINITION 31 The practice of banks refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods TERM 32 Under who did the supreme court establish gender discrimination as a highly visible area of of civil rights law? DEFINITION 32 Chief Justice Burger TERM 33 The attempt to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment was an important political struggle for__ DEFINITION 33 Women TERM 34 Title IX of the 1972 Education Act has had its greatest effect on __ DEFINITION 34 University athletic programs TERM 35 Why did the Equal Rights Amendment fail to pass? DEFINITION 35 It was not ratified by the necessary 38 states.