Minority Rights Lesson

Multiple Choice

"The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan was an influential book in the 1960s because it...

• led directly to the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment
• helped strengthen family values
• reinforced the stereotype of women as mothers and housewives
• helped start the modern women's rights movement

Multiple Choice

The Equal Pay Act, the Title IX education amendment, and the proposed Equal Rights amendment (ERA) were primarily efforts to improve the status of...

• women
• Native American Indians
• African Americans
• Hispanic migrant workers

Multiple Choice

Which of the following groups was a major group in the fight for Civil Rights for Native Americans?

• AIM
• SCLC
• NOW
• UFW

Multiple Choice

The goal of the Chicano movement was to have _________.

• equal education
• better working pay
• voting rights
• all of these

Multiple Choice

The Chicano movement was a Civil Rights Movement extending the Mexican American Civil Rights.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following groups was a major group in the fight for rights for migrant farm workers in the United States?

• AIM
• SCLC
• NOW
• UFW

Multiple Choice

Who was the leader of the United Farm Workers Union Movement?

• Sal Castro
• Gonzalo Mendez
• Pete Hernandez
• Cesar Chavez

Multiple Choice

What did Gandhi and MLK Jr. teach Chavez?

• Violence is the answer to any problem.
• Problems can be solved through nonviolent protests.
• Money will solve everyone's problems.
• None of the above.

Multiple Choice

During the America Great Depression, many Mexicans, some of the U.S. citizens were sent back across the border, illegally, to free up jobs for the millions of Americans out of work.  

• Pueblo Revolt
• The Bracero Program
• Mexican Repatriation Act
•  Repartimiento System

Multiple Choice

During World War Two 16 million young Americans went abroad to fight in the two theaters of war.  This "invitation" was given to Mexican nationals to come help fill the labor shortage in America during the war.  

• Bracero Program
• Mexican Repatriation Act
• Repartimiento System
• Encomienda System

Multiple Choice

Which event is NOT a highly publicized protest/demonstration that AIM was involved in?

• Occupation of Alcatraz Island

• Trail of Tears

• The takeover of a site at Wounded Knee

• The March on Washington

Multiple Choice

The Indian Civil Rights Act is often referred to as ________

• "The New Bill of Rights"

• "The New Deal"

• "The Bill of Rights for Native Americans"

• "Indian Bill of Rights"

Multiple Choice

A Labor Union formed in 1966 to seek higher wages and better working conditions for Mexican-American farm workers in California.

• La Raza Unida

• American Indian Movement

• United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

• Equal Rights Amendment

Multiple Choice

The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equity with me.

• Fascism

• Feminism

• La Raza Unida

• Female Workers Organization

Multiple Choice

A proposed and failed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have prohibited any government discrimination on the basis of Sex.

• Feminism

• Civil Rights Movement

• AIM

• Equal Rights Amendment

Multiple Choice

The culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960's seeking to create an alternative society based on peace, love and individual freedom.

• Counterculture

• Feminism

• Woodstock

• United Hippie Movement

Multiple Choice

She wrote a book entitled, "The Feminine Mystique", which addressed the "problem that has no name"

• Jimi Hendrix

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Janis Joplin

• Betty Friedan

Multiple Choice

She was journalist, political activist, and ardent supporter of the women's liberation movement.

• Betty Friedan

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Gloria Steinem

• Janis Joplin

Multiple Choice

Conservative who fought against the passage of the ERA.

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Janis Joplin

• Betty Friedan

• Gloria Steinem

Multiple Choice

Who was:
•Conservative activist •Founder of Eagle Forum – opposes modern feminism •Campaigned against Equal Rights Amendment

• Rosa Parks
• Betty Friedan
• Phyllis Schlafly
• Jane Addams

Multiple Choice

What is Title IX

• A Law allowing males to have the same opportunities as females
• A Law allowing women to have the same opportunities as males
• A law
• Title IX doesn't exsist

Multiple Choice

When was Title IX first put into action (used).

• 2000
• 1927
• 1972
• 1954

Multiple Choice

Title IX affected?

• School
• Workplace
• Sports
• All of the above

Multiple Choice

One common complaint by those who oppose affirmative action is that

• it results in reverse discrimination against white people and males

• in unfairly targets minorities over women

• it excludes Asian Americans

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

One long-term implication of Affirmative Action is that

• White males will be left out of a lot of work and educational opportunities

• it will divide the nation

• more and more people will be working with a diverse group of people

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

According to sociologists, Affirmative Action

• is a bad policy choice

• can help to reduce inequality

• should only be used in the educational system, not the workplace

• programs need not target women

Multiple Choice

A policy to bring in qualified minority applicants.

• affirmative action

• civil rights

• desegregation

• integration

Multiple Choice

Affirmative action is the positive action of increasing representation in......

• things that historically have been sexist towards women

• in things that historically excluded women and minorities, including employment, education, and culture.

• Jobs that have excluded white men due to the need for more minorities and women who have been historically excluded women and minorities, including employment, education, and culture.

• Selective Institutions