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| government policies that directly or indirectly award social goods or resources on the basis of membership in a designated protected group in order to compensate for pasat discriminations by society as a whole. |
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| The supreme court jusitices ruled in 2000 that the boy scouts can ban gay scout leaders. T or F? |
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| Native Americans were made official citizens of the united states in (yr)? |
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| what was a key to the success of the lunch-counter sit-ins? |
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| a philosophy of nonviolent protest |
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| the supreme court justices rule in 2003 that states cannot ban homosexual relations among consenting adults. T or F? |
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| the supreme court justices ruled in 1996 that states could not adopt hostile policies toward gays and lesbians. T or F? |
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| what decision found a plan requiring prome contractors to subcontract at least 30% of the dollar amount to minority business enterproses unconstitutional? |
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| City or Richmond v. J.V. Crosen Co. |
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| what decision found a plan of setting aside 50% of new training jobs for minorities to not be discrimination? |
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| United Steelworkers of America v. Weber |
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| what Supreme court decision ruled that all vestiges of state inposed segregation must be eliminated at once and that the lower federal courts had the authority to fashion remedies including busing, racial quotas, gerrymandering school attendance zones and the poiring of schools to end dual, segregated school systems? |
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| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg school District |
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| in the freedom rides of 1961, what even occurred near the town of Anniston? |
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| the bus was fire bombed and the doors blocked to prevent passengers from exiting the bus |
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| A "seperate law school for negroes" in Texas was found to be constitutional in Sweatt v. Painter. T or F? |
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| During the early 1960s who was the president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee? |
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| When the NAACP begab its litigation stategy to end segregation, it chose to begin by challenging segregation in ___ by using the "seperate but equal principle" to force integration. |
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| professional and postgraduate schools |
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| the supreme court decision in 1954 that overturned plessy (1896) was called- |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. |
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| in 1955, the montgomery bus boycott began with the intent of ending segregation on public transport. The catalyst for the boycott was a black person who was arrested for refusing to give up a seat to a white person. The name of the person was- |
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| During the late 1800s, Jim Crow laws and segregation wer permitted in large part due to the- |
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| the 14th amendment applies to discriminatory action by- |
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| what is true concerning the segregation case of Cooper v. Aaron? |
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| The opinion was signed by all nine members of the court. |
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| when fundamental freedoms such as the first amendment guarantees or suspect classifications are invloved, the court uses a standard of review called- |
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| what is true about affirmative action? |
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| it is premised on the concept of group rights |
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| in 1973, protesting for the treatment of indian nations the american indian movement activiests occupied ___(which resulted in exchanging gunfire with US marshalls) |
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| the site of the Wounded Knee Battle |
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| what event did not support the womens rights movement |
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| ratification of the equal rights amendment in 1972 as the 28th amendment |
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| what 4 events did support the womens rights movement? |
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1. the fed equal credit opp act of 1974
2. Title VII of the civil rights act of 1964
3. Reed v. reed
4. Title IX of the education actis amendments of 1972 |
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| the most successful feminist efforts of the 1800s centered on |
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| protection of women in families |
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| what area of the educational amendments of 1972 expanded the opportunities for women in elementary, secondary and postsecondary insititutions? |
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| the expansion of civil rights to include protection from state governments was eventually achieved because of the adoption of the |
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| women in america obtained the right to vote in national elections in |
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| the american anti-slavery society was founded by a white new england newspaper deitor named- |
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| abolitionists worked towards- |
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| was designed to keep a balance in the senate between free and slave states |
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| In Minor v. Happersett (1875), the supreme court ruled that |
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| voting was not a privilege of citizenship |
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| in the 1970s, which of the following states had th hightest percentage of schools (67% of schools) with 90 to 100% minority attendance? |
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| among the women who founded the first womens movement was- |
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| What is true concerning hispanic comminites/politics? |
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all of the statements are true-
1. Cuban americans arre better educated and have higher incomes than other hispanic groups
2. puerto ricans have lower median family incomes and higher proverty percentages that other hispanic groups
3. mexican american voter turnout is lower than other minority groups
4. the mexican american population in the southwestern united states doubled in size between 1980 and 2000 |
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| in 1848 the first womens rights meeting was held in |
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| there was a tremendous national reaction to the novel__ published in 1852 on the evils of slavery |
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| in 1857 the first major civil rights case to be decided by the supreme court was/ were |
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| The missouri compromise of 1820- |
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| allowed missouri to enter the union as a slave state and maine to enter as a free state |
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| the first major civil rights case to be considered by the supreme court used the opportunity to deal with a dispute over the consitutionality of the __ in its majority opinion in order tro consitutionall settle the issue of slavery |
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| slavery was banned by the ___ amendment |
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| Laws passed during reconstruction that denied most legal rights to newly freed slaves and prohibited blacks from voting, sitting on juries, or even appearing in public places after the civil war were known as |
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| who was responsible for the naacp strategy of using plessy v ferguson to challenge state universities professional and graduate schools in order to integrate those schools? |
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| which current supreme court justice argued womens rights cases (including a case concerning an idaho law over administrators of estates) for the ACLU before the court? |
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| which supreme court decision allowed a "reasonalbe person" to decide if a workplace was hostile of abusive? |
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| Former slaves were granted citizenship as well as the "privileges and immunities" thereof, and states barred from depriving anyone of "life, liberty or property without due process of law" through the ___ amendment |
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| which of the following states passed astte consitutional amendments laws or executive orders which were bans on racial and/or gender preferences in the states actions? |
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| california, washington, florida, michigan |
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| what is discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, ethnicity, and the like that results from social, economic, and cultural biases and conditions? |
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| a policy that aimed chiefly to overcome de facto discrimination |
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| busing to achieve racial integration in the schools |
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| Consideration of race as one of several factors (not using a point system) as a selection process for admission to university of michigan law school was declared- |
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