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WorksheetsReview for Civil Rights & Am Gov't Assessment on 2-04-21
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 1hrs 8mins
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT---Rosa Parks decision to stay seated on Montgomery AL., city bus activated the Civil Rights Movement directly in what part of the country?
East
West
North
South
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT---Martin Luther King delivered the speech that started his career as leader of the Civil Rights Movement on Dec 1, 1955, at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL. What was the speech about?
Marching from Selma to Montgomery, AL
The Poor People's March to Washington D.C.
The Death of Malcolm X
Continuing the Montgomery Bus Boycott sparked by Rosa Parks
none of the above
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT-Who did Rosa Parks call to bail her out of jail?
Martin Luther King, Jr, Minister
E. D. Nixon, local President Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, member, The Women's Political Council
none of the above
CIVIL RIGHTS--- Who started BLACK HISTORY MONTH?
DR. CARTER G. WOODSON
BILL COSBY
MICHELLE OBAMA
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
NONE OF THE ABOVE
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT--- WHO WAS PRESIDENT OF THE MONTGOMERY ALABAMA WOMEN'S POLITICAL COUNCIL? (WPC) [THE ORGANIZATION THAT ORGANIZED THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT]
MAYA ANGELOU
JO ANN GIBSON ROBINSON
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
MICHELLE OBAMA
ALTHEA GIBSON
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT--De facto segregation is.........
segregation that happens spontaneously, in a moment that was not planned.
segregation that exists in fact, even if no law requires it.
segregation authorized by law
segregation that no longer exists
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT From the list which follows, select ANY/ALL consequences that Rosa Parks could have predicted, when she decided to refuse to move from the bus seat.
physical harm / being beaten
being arrested / going to jail
losing her job
shaming her family
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT From the list which follows, select ANY/ALL options that Rosa Parks had instead of refusing to move from the bus seat.
stay seated
get off the bus / take the next one
ignore the bus driver
move
ask the man if he was willing to share the row with her
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVTWhich public speech started Martin Luther King's rise as known and motivational preacher and activist?
"I Have a Dream"
"I've Been to the Mountaintop"
"Holt Street Baptist Church Speech"
"Beyond Vietnam"
AM GOVT P. 410 Since 1971, the Supreme Court has ruled many cases based on sex-based distinctions unconstitutional. Which of the following SCOTUS decisions were based on sex-based distinctions? Select all that apply.
Reed v Reed (1971)
Frontiero v. Richardson (1973
Kahn v. Shevin (1974)
Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977)
United States v. Virginia (1996)
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT---This 1972 gender-based guarantee to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids discrimination on the basis of gender "in any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." The statute intends to insure that women receive equal treatment in all aspects of education. Name this amendment to the Education Amendments of 1972.
Title I
Title II
Title IX
Title VI
Title VII
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT. 413 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed after the longest debate in Senate history, and only after the Senate invoked cloture (a rule to limit debate) to kill a filibuster. How many days of debate took place in this longest Senate debate
80
81
82
83
101
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT P. 412 Who said, " Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless"
Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson
Pres. John F. Kennedy
Pres. Barack Obama
Rev. Dr. Martim Luther King
Mahatma Gandhi
AM GOVT P. 413 The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is often called.....
The National Security Act
The Open Housing Act
The Closed Housing Act
The Medicare Act
The School Athletics Act
AM GOVT--After the White House, this is the largest and most influential unit in the Executive Office. The task of this agency is the preparation of the Federal budget, which the President must submit to Congress each year. What is this unit called?
OMB
IRS
NSC
FBI
EOP
AM GOVT--This unit is a staff agency whose job is to advise the President in all matters affecting the nation's security. During the Reagan Administration, this agency conducted a number of secret operations, including the sale of arms to Iran. Name this agency.
OMB
IRS
NSC
FBI
EOP
AM GOVT--This is the "umbrella agency" which is a complex organization of several agencies staffed by more than 1,800 of the President's key advisers and assistants. President Franklin Roosevelt persuaded Congress to establish this agency in 1939. Name this agency.
OMB
IRS
NSC
FBI
EOP
CIVIL RIGHTS--From the list to follow, select the names of ALL the little girls killed during Sunday school, when members of the Ku Klux Klan, bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963.
Addie Mae Collins
Denise McNair
Carole Robertson
Cynthia Wesley
CIVIL RIGHTS--From the list to follow, select the names of ALL the young men who sat at the Greensboro, NC Woolworth's lunch counter in the first "sit in" protest against segregated facilities.
Joseph McNeil
Franlin McNeil
David Richmond
Ezell Blair Jr.
AM GOVT ---TRUE or FALSE: According to Magruder's (p. 399), "White Americans have been historically reluctant to yield to non-white Americans a full and equal place in the social, economic, and political life of this nation"
TRUE
FALSE
AM GOVT ---TRUE or FALSE: According to Magruder's (p. 399), "Overtime, the principal targets of [America's] ethic prejudice have been African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans."
TRUE
FALSE
AM GOVT ---TRUE or FALSE: According to Magruder's (p. 399), "The white-male-dominated power structure has also been slow to recognize the claims of women to an equal place in American society."
TRUE
FALSE
AM GOVT ---From Magruders: Which of the following children would NOT be considered a U.S. citizen?
A child born in Chicago whose German parents are diplomats in the United States.
A child born in Japan whose parents are both American citizens.
A child born in Ohio whose parents are illegal aliens
A child born in Hawaii whose mother is an American citizen.
AM GOVT ---From Magruders: What is naturalization?
legal process requiring a person to give up his or her citizenship
legal process requiring an alien to leave a country
legal process by which a person can become a citizen of another country
legal process through which a person can legally live and work in another country
AM GOVT ---From Magruders: A native-born American citizen can lose his or her citizenship by
voting in a foreign election.
serving in another country's military.
voluntarily abandoning citizenship.
committing a crime
AM GOVT ---From Magruders: What was significant about the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
It modified the quotas of select countries in the country-based quota system.
It ended the country-based quota system.
It started the country-based quota system.
It established permanent quotas in the country-based quota system.
AM GOVT ---From Magruders: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 made it a crime to hire an illegal alien and
eliminated all initiatives aimed at keeping illegal aliens in the fields of science or technology in the country.
made it a crime to hire an illegal alien if a naturalized citizen applied for the same job.
suspended the deportation of illegal immigrants for two years.
established a one-year amnesty program for illegal aliens to become legal residents.
AM GOVT --- Macgruder: In United States v. Wong Kim Ark, Wong Kim Ark most likely took his case to Court because
as a U.S. citizen, Wong Kim Ark was entitled to re-enter the United States after a trip to China.
as an American citizen, Wong Kim Ark would not be allowed to relocate to China.
as the child of Chinese citizens, Wong Kim Ark was entitled to U.S.-China dual citizenship.
as the child of parents born in a Communist country, Wong Kim Ark could be deported.
AM GOVT ---From Magruders: At various times, entire groups have been naturalized en masse. This has most often happened when the United States has acquired new territory. Those living in the areas involved were naturalized by a treaty or by an act or a joint resolution passed by Congress. The most recent instance occurred in 1977, when Congress did what?
gave citizenship to all native born African Americans
gave citizenship to all native born Puerto Ricans
gave citizenship to 16,000 native-born residents of the Northern Mariana Islands
gave citizenship to all native-born Hawaiians
AM GOVT ---An example of an ALIEN is
a college student who is in the United States on a student visa.
a Canadian citizen who works for an American company.
a U.S. citizen who goes to France for vacation.
the U.S.-born child of a naturalized citizen of the United States.
CIVIL RIGHTS &AM GOVT ---Gender discrimination and race discrimination are treated differently by the Supreme Court in that...
race discrimination must pass the strict scrutiny test
race discrimination often only need pass the rational basis test
gender discrimination must pass the strict scrutiny test.
gender discrimination often only need pass the rational basis test.
CIVIL RIGHTS & AM GOVT The huge bronze statue of Freedom has stood atop the nation’s Capitol in Washington, D.C., for about 150 years now. That bold figure is meant to symbolize the basic ideas upon which the United States exists—the concepts of individual liberty, of self-government, and of equal rights for all. What was the recent IRONY uncovered by the Architect of the Capitol?
400 Native Americans worked on the construction of the Capitol from 1792 to1800.
400 Black Americans worked on the construction of the Capitol from 1792 to1800. on the construction of the Capitol from 1792 to1800.
400 Asian Americans worked on the construction of the Capitol from 1792 to1800.
CH 12: Select each of the factors of production listed
land
capital
labor
entrepreneurs
none of the above
CH 12: All of the human-made resources that are used to produce goods and services.
land
capital
labor
entrepreneurs
none of the above
CH 12: An individual with the drive and ambition to combine land, labor, and capital resources to produce goods or offer services, and is willing to risk losses and failure.
land
capital
labor
entrepreneurs
CH 12: Theory that the government should play only a very limited, hands off role in society. The proper role of gov't should be restricted to functions intended to promote and protect the free play of competition and the operation of the laws of supply and demand.
capitalism
laissez-faire
privatization
Great Leap Forward
gross domestic product
CH 12: The total value of all final goods and services produced in the country each year.
capitalism
laissez-faire
privatization
Great Leap Forward
gross domestic product
CH 12: A general decrease in prices is known as
inflation
deflation
deregulation
none of the above
CH 12: A general increase in prices is known as
inflation
deflation
deregulation
none of the above
CH 12: The process of returning nationalized enterprises to private ownership.
capitalism
laissez-faire
privatization
Great Leap Forward
gross domestic product
