The American Democracy, 10th Edition (Patterson)

Chapter 5: Equal Rights: Struggling Toward Fairness

Chapter Quiz

1
________ was the first woman to run on the national ticket of a major political party.
A)Sandra Day O'Connor
B)Geraldine Ferraro
C)Dianne Feinstein
D)Barbara Boxer
E)Hillary Rodham Clinton
2
One area in which African Americans have made substantial progress since the 1960s is
A)elective office.
B)in representation in the penal system.
C)in treatment by the judicial system.
D)in representation in the penal and judicial systems.
E)None of these answers is correct.
3
Women gained the right to vote in national elections in ________.
A)1848
B)1870
C)1903
D)1920
E)1945
4
Which region of the world has the highest percentage of national legislative seats held by women?
A)North America
B)Latin America
C)East Asia
D)Scandinavia
E)East Africa
5
The "Southern Manifesto" was
A)a pledge by southern black activists to bring about full implementation of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
B)a statement by black civil rights movement leaders that pledged nonviolent resistance as part of their protests against discrimination policies.
C)a pledge by southern state governors to use state militias as weapons against federal integration policies.
D)a coordination of southern lawmakers after the removal of federal troops in the wake of the Civil War to establish discriminatory legislation.
E)a call by southern congressmen to resist forced integration in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision.
6
The strict scrutiny test applies to
A)race.
B)ethnicity.
C)gender.
D)age.
E)race and ethnicity.
7
Roughly ____ percent of black children live below the government-defined poverty line.
A)10
B)20
C)40
D)60
E)80
8
In the case of United States v. Virginia (1996), the Supreme Court ruled that
A)strict racial quotas were a valid means of ensuring racial diversity on college campuses.
B)private colleges could refuse to admit prospective students on the basis of sexual orientation.
C)male-only admissions policies at state-supported military academies were unconstitutional.
D)because female instructors created an undue distraction at all-male universities, the schools in question could discriminate against women in their hiring practices.
E)colleges affiliated with a particular religion could not take the religious persuasion of job candidates into consideration during the hiring process.
9
What happened when federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877?
A)African Americans were treated the same as whites.
B)Laws were passed that reinstituted the practice of slavery, in practice if not in name.
C)In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court justices allowed separate and unequal treatment of African Americans.
D)Laws were enacted that segregated the races, and the Supreme Court, through the Plessy decision, tacitly allowed separate and unequal treatment of African Americans.
E)Racism was largely reduced as an open tool of government because of the need for blacks to contribute to the rebuilding of the southern economy.
10
Congress made Native Americans official citizens of the United States in ________.
A)1789
B)1828
C)1865
D)1924
E)1963
11
In 2000, what did the Supreme Court justices rule with regard to the Boy Scouts?
A)The Boy Scouts organization could not ban gays from participating.
B)The Boy Scouts organization could ban gays from participating.
C)The Boy Scouts organization could not ban girls from participating.
D)The Boy Scouts organization could ban girls from participating.
E)None of these answers is correct.
12
In 2004, which state instituted same-sex marriage?
A)Vermont
B)Rhode Island
C)New York
D)California
E)None of these answers is correct.
13
The Supreme Court rejected the constitutionality of separate but equal facilities in
A)Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education.
B)Plessy v. Ferguson.
C)Milliken v. Bradley.
D)United States v. Virginia.
E)Brown v. Board of Education.
14
According to Gunnar Myrdal, what is "America's curse"?
A)low voter turnout
B)greed
C)discrimination
D)alcoholism
E)pollution
15
As a movement leader, Cesar Chavez helped bring about which of the following?
A)the decision by Congress to remove restrictions on the number of migrant workers allowed in the country
B)Texas's decision to force employers to grant migrant workers better employment benefits
C)California's decision to allow migrant workers to bargain collectively
D)the passage of a federal law preventing open discrimination, in employment or in public and private service, against Hispanic Americans
E)the passage of several state laws granting "guest worker" status to migrant workers
16
African American men were granted suffrage in ________.
A)1845
B)1870
C)1896
D)1920
E)1945
17
The use of busing as a remedy for segregated schools contributed to white flight to the suburbs, which was protected by
A)state policies that put busing programs in the hands of local school boards, which manipulated them to prevent black children from being bused into the suburbs.
B)state policies that placed suburban schools in categories exempt from federal control.
C)a Supreme Court decision that prohibited busing across school districts except where district boundaries had been deliberately drawn to keep the races apart.
D)the rapid incorporation of suburban schools as private entities that could avoid federal education policy influence.
E)a Supreme Court decision that disallowed busing programs in districts where a popular referendum, passable with a plurality of the vote, rejected the busing policy.
18
Which of the following is true about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
A)Congress approved the ERA in the 1970s.
B)The ERA fell three states short of the three-fourths majority it needed to be ratified.
C)Congress approved the ERA in the 1970s, but it fell three states short of the three-fourths majority it needed to be ratified.
D)The ERA was ratified by only half the states.
E)Congress rejected the ERA every time it came up for a vote.
19
All disabled children were guaranteed a free, appropriate education in ________.
A)1789
B)1854
C)1891
D)1938
E)1975
20
Which of the following statements is true?
A)During the early 1900s, Chinese and Japanese laborers were brought into the western states to work in mines and to build railroads.
B)In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge asked Congress for a relaxation of the ban on Chinese immigration.
C)Discrimination against Asians did not ease substantially until 1950.
D)In the 1800s, Chinese and Japanese laborers were brought into the western states; in 1930 Congress halted all immigration from Japan; discrimination against Asians did not ease substantially until 1965.
E)Immigration from Asia to the United States was higher in the early twentieth century than it was in the latter nineteenth century.
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