Deck 5: Civil Rights

Question 1

Mexican American farm workers in California organized ________ to demand higher pay from their employers.

A) the bracero program
B) Operation Wetback
C) the United Farm Workers union
D) the Mattachine Society

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Why did it take so long for an active civil rights movement to begin in the LGBT community?

Answer 2

Unlike women and members of racial or ethnic minorities, LGBT people were invisible to the larger society and could thus escape discrimination if they remained closeted. It also was dangerous to make their LGBT status public because it could result in arrest, job loss, or hate crimes.

Question 3

Critical Thinking Questions


-If a person's religious beliefs conflict with the law or lead to bias against other groups, should the government protect the exercise of those beliefs? Why or why not?

Answer 3

The government should not allow people to exercise religious beliefs if they interfere with the Constitutional rights of others or lead to discrimination. Doing so would be allowing one group to force their beliefs or practices on others and would thus treat them as more important than other groups of people. The rights of Christian fundamentalists, for example, are not greater than the rights of gay men or lesbians. Religious belief should be accommodated but not at the expense of others.

Question 4

The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forced removal of this tribe from Georgia to Oklahoma.

A) Lakota
B) Paiute
C) Navajo
D) Cherokee

Question 5

A group of African American students believes a college admissions test that is used by a public university discriminates against them. What legal standard would the courts use in deciding their case?

A) rational basis test
B) intermediate scrutiny
C) strict scrutiny
D) equal protection

Question 6

Critical Thinking Questions


-Should public funds be used to provide programs for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians even though no one living today was responsible for depriving them of their lands? Why or why not?

Question 7

Briefly describe the similarities and differences between the experiences of Native Americans and Native Hawaiians.

Question 8

The Supreme Court decision ruling that "separate but equal" was constitutional and allowed racial segregation to take place was ________.

A) Brown v. Board of Education
B) Plessy v. Ferguson
C) Loving v. Virginia
D) Shelley v. Kraemer

Question 9

AIM was ________.

A) a federal program that returned control of Native American education to tribal governments
B) a radical group of Native American activists who occupied the settlement of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation
C) an attempt to reduce the size of reservations
D) a federal program to give funds to Native American tribes to help their members open small businesses that would employ tribal members

Question 10

Which of the following best describes attitudes toward Asian immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

A) Asian immigrants were welcomed to the United States and swiftly became financially successful.
B) Asian immigrants were disliked by whites who feared competition for jobs, and several acts of Congress sought to restrict immigration and naturalization of Asians.
C) Whites feared Asian immigrants because Japanese and Chinese Americans were often disloyal to the U.S. government.
D) Asian immigrants got along well with whites but not with Mexican Americans or African Americans.

Question 11

Critical Thinking Questions


-What is the better approach to civil rights-a peaceful, gradual one that focuses on passing laws and winning cases in court, or a radical one that includes direct action and acts of civil disobedience? Why do you consider this to be the better solution?

Question 12

At the world's first women's rights convention in 1848, the most contentious issue proved to be _________.

A) the right to education for women
B) suffrage for women
C) access to the professions for women
D) greater property rights for women

Question 13

Critical Thinking Questions


-Although some Native Hawaiians want the right to govern themselves, others want to secede from Hawaii and become an independent nation. If this is what the majority of Native Hawaiians want, should they be allowed to do so? Why or why not?

Question 14

How did NAWSA differ from the NWP?

A) NAWSA worked to win votes for women on a state-by-state basis while the NWP wanted an amendment added to the Constitution.
B) NAWSA attracted mostly middle-class women while NWP appealed to the working class.
C) The NWP favored more confrontational tactics like protests and picketing while NAWSA circulated petitions and lobbied politicians.
D) The NWP sought to deny African Americans the vote, but NAWSA wanted to enfranchise all women.

Question 15

The 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march was an important milestone in the civil rights movement because it ________.

A) vividly illustrated the continued resistance to black civil rights in the Deep South
B) did not encounter any violent resistance
C) led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
D) was the first major protest after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 16

What were the key provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Question 17

The equal protection clause became part of the Constitution as a result of ________.

A) affirmative action
B) the Fourteenth Amendment
C) intermediate scrutiny
D) strict scrutiny

Question 18

The doctrine that people who do jobs that require the same level of skill, training, or education are thus entitled to equal pay is known as ________.

A) the glass ceiling
B) substantial compensation
C) comparable worth
D) affirmative action

Question 19

What is the difference between civil rights and civil liberties?

Question 20

Which of the following types of discrimination would be subject to the rational basis test?

A) A law that treats men differently from women
B) An action by a state governor that treats Asian Americans differently from other citizens
C) A law that treats whites differently from other citizens
D) A law that treats 10-year-olds differently from 28-year-olds

Question 21

Critical Thinking Questions


-In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of the U.S. government to order the internment of a minority group in the interest of national security, even though there was no evidence that any members of this group were disloyal to the United States. Should the same policy be applied today against U.S. Muslims or Muslim immigrants? Why or why not?