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Chapter 5: Civil Rights and Public Policy

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This activity contains 15 questions.

	Age discrimination is one area that has received very little attention by the U.S. Congress.    True  False

	By the 1980s, few, if any, forms of racial discrimination were left to legislate against.    True  False

	During the first ten years after the Civil War many African American men held both state and federal offices.    True  False

	Equality for women did not appear on the nation's political agenda until the middle of the twentieth century.    True  False

	In Adarand Constructors v. Pena (1995), the Supreme Court ruled that federal programs must include strict affirmative action guidelines.    True  False

	In Reed v. Reed (1971) the Supreme Court ruled that any "arbitrary" gender-based classification violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.    True  False

	Most American mothers who have children below school age are in the labor force.    True  False

	School busing was used as a tool for segregation after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.    True  False

	Soon African Americans will no longer be the largest minority group in the United States.    True  False

	Statutes and regulations prohibit women from serving in combat.    True  False

	The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress as an Amendment in 1923.    True  False

	The Supreme Court has ruled that racial and ethnic classifications are inherently suspect.    True  False

	The Voting Rights Act of 1965 resulted in increased civil rights protest and violence.    True  False

	The word "equality" does not appear in the original Constitution.    True  False

	Winning the right to vote gave the women's movement great momentum in the fight for equality.    True  False

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