PLSC Worksheet 5

In the 1944 case of Smith v Allwright, the United States Supreme court ruled the _______ to be a violation of the fifteenth amendment

in 2003, the united states supreme court considered two different admissions policies adopted at the university of michigan and

which of the following statements concerning the Civil Rights Act of 1866 is false?

the congressional union for woman suffrage was founded by

the ______ kept blacks from voting in the democratic party's primaries

______ forbade discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin

the modern movement for gay and lesbian rights began

in the context of civil rights, ________ is the transportation of public school students from areas where they live to schools in other areas

a practice, policy, or procedure that denies equality of treatment to an individual or to a group because of gender

the reconstruction statutes, or civil rights acts, ultimately

the contrasting image of nonviolent african americans and violent, hostile whites created

the policy in admissions or hiring that gives special consideration to traditionally disadvantaged groups to overcome the present effects of past discrimination is known as

all of the following are true regarding the aftermath of brown v board of education except

which of the following did not happen after, or as a result of, the civil rights cases of 1883?

today, most immigrants to the United States come from

which of the following best describes de jure segregation?

_____ occurs when an employee is subjected to sexual conduct or comments that interefere with the employee's job performance

which of the following best describes de facto segregation

an attempt to maintain white supremacy included

the defense of marriage act of 1996

the legislation resulting from the civil rights movement

the tests commonly administered as a precondition for voting were called

the supreme court's ruling in the civil rights cases of 1883 meant that

many observers consider the _______ to be the beginning of the feminist movement

in his leadership of the civil rights movement, Dr. MLK jr advocated

the fourteenth amendment does all of the following except

provisions of the fifteenth amendment

a nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws is called

the equal rights amendment was

immigrants who are not yet citizens possess

Betty Friedan's The feminine mystique

discrimination against individuals who are not members of a minority group is called

in plessy v ferguson, the court held that

all of the following regarding women's rights is false except

in the regents of the university of california v bakke case, the supreme court held that

the supreme court's opinion in adarant constructors inc v pena means that once an affirmative action program has succeeded in achieving the purpose it was tailored to meet, the program

which of the following best describes president obama's original stanf on gay men and lesbians in the military

enacted in 1963, the ________ requires employers to provide equal pay for substantially equal work

in brown v board of education of topeka (1954), the US supreme court

US laws that required separate drinking fountains, separate seats in theaters, and separate waiting rooms for the two races were known as

a poll tax was used to

the phrase "dont ask dont tell" refers to a policy toward gay men and lesbians

according to the thirteenth amendment

the brown decision applied to

the doctrine that was born of the plessy v ferguson case was known as

all of the following are true except that

the fertility rate is best definied as the average number of children

in the 2003 decision of lawrence v texas, the united states supreme court

when president _______ appointed sandra Day O'Connor to the United States supreme court, the appointment was an historic first

one major provision of the voting rights act of 1965 was that it