Civic Literacy Social Movements

This amendment gave women the right to vote.

• 14th 
• 15th 
• 19th 
• 23rd

The main goal of the women's rights movement in the early 20th century was to achieve

• the right to vote

• equal pay for equal work

• the freedom to practice birth

  control

• the end of discrimination in

  hiring

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were best noted for their struggle to

• prohibit the manufacture and

  sale of alcohol

• abolish slavery

• secure the right of women to

  vote

• expose government corruption

What does the map show about woman’s suffrage legislation before ratification of the federal woman’s suffrage amendment in 1920?

• Opposition to woman’s suffrage

  was strongest in the New England states.

• New York was the first state to

  grant women the right to vote in state elections.

• State legislatures never gave

  women the right to vote.

• Many western states granted

  women suffrage before passage of the 19th amendment.

How did U.S. involvement in World War I impact the Women’s Suffrage Movement?

• Returning soldiers were exposed to the Woman Suffrage Movement in England and became more supportive.
• President Wilson decided to support voting rights for women after witnessing the contributions women made in the war effort.
• Congress refused to consider requests for domestic issues.
• People no longer considered granting women the right to vote because the war was a priority.

The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 established that laws segregating African Americans were permitted in the so-called...

• "de facto segregation" doctrine.
• "Southern segregation" doctrine.
• "separate but equal" doctrine.
• "constitutional segregation" doctrine.

# 27 Brown v. Education was a significant case because...

• it declared it illegal to prevent African Americans from voting.
• it declared it illegal to segregate to segregate restaurants.
• it declared it illegal to segregate public schools.
• it declared it illegal to discriminate in the selling of a house.

What were the defining characteristics of Civil Rights?

• Increased participation of minorities in the political process, Protests, Boycotts, Marches, Desegregation, Integration, Struggle for equality, due process strengthened.

• Communism, containment, Arms Race/Space Race, Red Scare, McCarthyism

• OPEC oil problems, conflict in the Middle East, Reaganomics, large military, Cold War ends, NAFTA

• Economic instability, Unemployment, Breadlines, Poverty

What group/individuals sought to improve the treatment of migrant workers through boycotts and strikes?

• SNCC, Martin Luther King

• Black Panthers, Newton

• United Farm Workers Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez

• Immigration Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez

Which of the following was not an outcome of the efforts of A.I.M. (American Indian Movement)

• Increased national attention about Indian rights
• An increased pride in traditional Indian culture
• A return of land to traditional tribal communities.
• A decrease in poverty among Native American communities