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WorksheetsCivil Rights-April 2021
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 1hrs 27mins
TRUE or FALSE------State Department spokesperson Ned Price recently declared on April 1, 2021, "The culture of Arab Americans will be honored this month, with the designation by the State Department of Arab American Heritage Month, reflecting the group's contributions to the US "are as old as America itself."
TRUE
FALSE
In 1968, she defeated the former leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to become the first African American woman to serve in the US Congress. Name her.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Anita Hill
Barbara Jordan
Shirley Chisholm
Rosa Parks
She published her first autobiography, Unbought and Unbossed in 1970. Her second autobiography, The Good Fight published in 1973, described her 1972 campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination-----during which she received little support from white women's organization or Black men. Name her.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Anita Hill
Barbara Jordan
Shirley Chisholm
Rosa Parks
TRUE or FALSE---In Cambodia in 1969-1970, the United States dropped more bombs than in had on all of Asia in World War II.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE or FALSE May 1970 American university campus protests against the Vietnam War, at Ohio's Kent State University and Mississippi's Jackson State University, led to the killing of 6 college students.
TRUE
FALSE
The Democratic Party candidate for President in 1968 was...
Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Senator Eugene McCarthy
Vice President Hubert Humphrey
former Governor George Wallace
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Which of the following policies did President Richard M. Nixon pursue once elected?
escalated the war in Vietnam
supported the Equal Rights Amendment
created the Environmental Protection Agency
pursued a "southern strategy" that realigned the Republican Party with the white southern backlash to civil rights and weakened the New Deal coalition
proposed the Family Assistance Plan (FAP)---killed by Senate conservatives
In 1969 lead by community support off-campus, and meaningful activism by the Black Student Union on-campus, this university became the first in America with a Black Studies department. Name the university.
UCLA
USC-- University of Southern California
USC--University of South Carolina
Gators of San Francisco State University
Gators of The University of Florida
Before he would "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" as Muhammad Ali, this fighter won 1960 Olympic Gold in Rome with the US boxing team under another name. What was his name?
Floyd Patterson
Sonny Liston
Cassius Clay
George Foreman
Larry Holmes
TRUE or FALSE--In the mid-1960s, Black Americans made up 50 percent of the US armed forces.
TRUE
FALSE
Urban riots in the late 1960s undercut social and political support for President Johnson's federal program to attack poverty and the problems faced by poor Americans. What name was President Johnson's program known by
"Welfare"
"The Great Society"
"One Small Step for Mankind"
"Vietnamization"
"Operation Overlord"
TRUE or FALSE---According to the text, the cornerstone of President Johnson's War of Poverty was the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
TRUE
FALSE
It was raining and it had been all the day. Fact, it had been raining for some weeks, a steady, big drop kind of rain that had roads all slopped up outside and ceilings all swollen up and leaking inside." Who is credited with these words in Mississippi Bridge
Lillian Jean
Pa
Jeremy
Mr. John Wallace
Rudine
What was the name of the river that was crossed in the story, Mississippi Bridge?
Mighty Mississippi
Po
Natchez Trace
Lumberin' Charlie
Rosa Lee
Although Miz Hattie was invited to try on the fine hat in Pa's store, who wanted to try it on, but was denied the opportunity?
Rudine
Jeremy
Miz Hattie
Grace-Anne
Big Ma
Which one of the following characters WAS NOT a member of the Logan family?
Casey
Jeremy
Stacey
Christopher-John
Little Man
Who was waiting for the Logan children to deliver milk?
Jefferson Davis
Miz Hattie
Miz Georgia
Big Ma
Mr. John Wallace
Dramatically describing unsuccessful attempts to revive George Floyd in the ambulance, who said yesterday in the trial associated with the Floyd, "He's a human being, and I was trying to give him a second chance at life.' Name this witness.
Derek Smith
Genevieve Hansen
Derek Chauvin
David Pleoger
Jena Scurry
Who is currently on trial in Minneapolis for the murder of George Floyd?
Derek Smith
Genevieve Hansen
Derek Chauvin
David Ploeger
Jena Scurry
From the list below, select any/any items that the Minneapolis Police Department includes in its standards and practices of professional policing.
provide name and badge number when requested, preferably in writing or on a business card
explain and/or apologize if you determine that the reasonable suspicion was unfounded (e.g. after an investigatory stop)
be courteous, respectful, polite, and professional
if asked, provide the procedures for filing a complaint about police service or conduct
ensure that the length of any detention is no longer than necessary to take appropriate action for the known or suspected offense
TRUE or FALSE: The Constitution contains two due process clauses: the 5th Amendment and the 14th Amendment. According to the text it is impossible to define the two due process guarantees in exact and complete terms
TRUE
FALSE
According to the text, The Supreme Court has consistently and purposefully relied on finding the meaning of due process on a case-by-case basis.
TRUE
FALSE
The SCOTUS first described the case-by-case approach of defining due process in 1878 as "the gradual process of inclusion and exclusion, as the case presented for decision shall require." What was the name 1878 SCOTUS that provides this description?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Sweat v. Painter
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
McCain-Feingold
Davidson v. New Orleans
This form of due process has to do with the HOW (the procedures, the methods) of governmental action.
procedural due process
transactional due process
temporal due process
substantive due process
This form of due process involves the WHAT (the substance, the policies) of governmental action.
procedural due process
transactional due process
temporal due process
substantive due process
Which SCOTUS case did the textbook use as an example of procedural due process?
Davidson v. New Orleans (1898)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Rochin v. California (1952)
Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1922)
Which SCOTUS case did the textbook use as an example of substantive due process?
Davidson v. New Orleans (1898)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Rochin v. California (1952)
Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1922)
NAME the power of the government to take private property for public use.
caveat emptor
eminent domain
Magna Carta
e pluribus unum
According to the text, what prevented Joseph and Barbara Jones from buying property in a Missouri neighborhood.
money
discrimination
hunger
fun
