Unit 6 - Civil Rights & Civil Liberties

Question 1

Which Civil Rights leader discussed in his "Ballot or the Bullet" address that violence may be necessary to get rights?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 2

MLK, Jr.'s 1963 Dream Speech made huge gains on pushing for civil rights after speaking at __.

Accepted Answer

Washington DC

Question 3

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was responsible for helping to ___ ?

Accepted Answer

removed the 180 day time requirement to file a complaint

Question 4

Which women's testimony on the conduct of Justice Thomas helped increase the number of women seeking political office ?

Accepted Answer

Anita Hill

Question 5

Which part of the 1st Amendment prohibits the Govt from supporting a state sponsored religion?

Accepted Answer

The Establishment Clause

Question 6

The Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Ed. case cited that ____.

Accepted Answer

segregation in US schools was unconstitutional

Question 7

Whose arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 8

Which protections come up in the case of the football coach & prayer in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District decision?

Accepted Answer

Free Exercise Clause

Question 9

Which Supreme Court case declared laws banning interracial marriage as unconstitutional?

Accepted Answer

Loving v. Virginia

Question 10

What was the expectation for women in the workforce following the conclusion of WWII?

Accepted Answer

return to normal lives as mothers and housewives

Question 11

Which 1973 Supreme Court decision provided for a women's right to an abortion?

Accepted Answer

Roe v. Wade

Question 12

The founder of the NAACP was ____.

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 13

Which First Wave Feminist activist was responsible for encouraging the Wilson Administration to support the 19th Amd?

Accepted Answer

Alice Paul

Question 14

What was the impact of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?

Accepted Answer

the Constitution did not grant protections to people of African decent

Question 15

Which famous anti-feminist campaigned against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment?

Accepted Answer

Phyllis Schlafly

Question 16

Which President was responsible for passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon Johnson

Question 17

What was outlawed following the ratification of the 24th Amendment?

Accepted Answer

poll taxes and literacy tests

Question 18

Based on the "Declaration of Sentiments" address at Seneca Falls, what issue would dominate the 1st Wave Feminist Movt?

Accepted Answer

access to suffrage / voting rights

Question 19

In the case of Lawrence v. Texas, the court ruled that ____.

Accepted Answer

personal actions of consenting adults cannot be criminalized

Question 20

Which early Abolition leader famously wrote about his personal story about escaping from slavery in the South?

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass

Question 21

Besides the Grandfather Clause and Poll Taxes, what other tool was used to block voting rights?

Accepted Answer

literacy tests

Question 22

Which religion is NOT protected under the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution and requires a special law to worship?

Accepted Answer

Native Religions

Question 23

Which US president signed Executive Order 10450, barring the Government from hiring any openly gay person?

Accepted Answer

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 24

Which activist is NOT associated with seeking rights for the disabled?

Accepted Answer

Harvey Milk

Question 25

Which 2015 Supreme Court decision allowed for gay marriage?

Accepted Answer

Obergefell v. Hodges

Question 26

The Title IX Laws in the US prohibit discrimination of genders involving ____.

Accepted Answer

access to educational / Federally funded programs

Question 27

Which major event is credited with starting the Gay Rights Movement?

Accepted Answer

the Stonewall Uprising in New York City

Question 28

Booker T. Washington is widely criticized by the black community because of which main idea?

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 29

Which famous Supreme Court Case legalized the Jim Crow System of the South?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 30

Betty Friedan's book the "Feminine Mystique" pushed which major idea?

Accepted Answer

Women should have more opportunities other than being housewives.

Unit 6 - Civil Rights & Civil Liberties

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Unit 6 - Civil Rights & Civil Liberties

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