Ch.29 S.4 Other Groups Seek Voices Quiz

In 1963 Kennedy convinced the Congress to pass ______________, which prohibited employers from paying women less than men for the same work.

• Equal Opportunity Act

• Equal Funding Initiative

• Equal Pay Act

• None of the above.

What does the acronym NOW stand for?

• National Organization for Women

• New Organized Women

• Northern Organization of Women

• None of the above

In the 1970s, the (ERA) Equal Rights Amendment was not ratified by enough states to make it law.

• True

• False

Phyliss Schlafly and other opponents of the ERA warned that the amendment would lead to the breakdown of the traditional roles of society and of family.

• True

• False

Despite the ERA not passing women still gained more ______ and rose to higher-level ______ in their companies.

(Same word for both blanks).

(a)  

Because of the Women's movement, within the civil rights movement, women were able to attend more colleges and universities that at one time only allowed males. They were able to get into medical school and law school. Which enabled them to become ______________ and ________________.

• teachers, businesswomen

• doctors, lawyers

• accountants, actors

• None of the above

Hispanic Americans who worked as migrant farmers had to endure long hours of labor for low (a)   .

Who led the (UFW) United Farm Workers union that brought change to the working conditions for migrant workers?

• Herman Badillo

• Cesar Chavez

• Martin Luther King Jr.

La Raza Unida was an orgnization that helped to

• fight discrimination and elect Hispanics to government posts.

• win lawsuits in federal courts to guarantee Hispanics the rights to serve on juries and the right to send their children to unsegregated schools.

• Neither of the above

LULAC was an organization that helped to

• fight discrimination and elect Hispanics to government posts.

• win lawsuits in federal courts to guarantee Hispanic Americans the right to serve on juries and the right to send their children to unsegregated schools.

• Neither of the above.