Ch+6+Civil+Rights+-+Study+Questions+(with+Answers)+&+Multiple+Choice+Questions

How has the struggle for equality among other racial minority groups compared to that of African Americans? Use specific examples to illustrate your answer.
===Although the Fifteenth Amendment specifically guaranteed the right to vote for African Americans, what legal devices did southern states use to get around it? How and when were these devices removed? Explain.=== Exploiting the Fifteenth Amendment's barring of the exclusion of people on the basis of "race or color", the Southern States used poll taxes, property requirements, the grandfather clause (which allowed a person who had failed to pass a voting test to vote if his grandfather had been able to), and "knowledge" tests to keep African Americans from voting. In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which stopped voter discrimination by outlawed discrimination in voter registration and allowed Congress to hold federal money away from states with discriminatiry laws.

Other than women and racial and ethnic minorities, what other groups have sought over the past few decades for greater recognition of their civil rights? With what success?
Groups based on sexual orientation, most importantly homosexuals, have long been involved in the fight for equality and greater recognition of their civil rights. Advocacy groups such as the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fung, the Lesbian Rights Project, and Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders were founded by gay and lesbian activists in the 1970's. While garnering some success on the issue of HIV/AIDS descrimination, insurance policy survivor benefits, and even some employment issues, they generally have not been as successfull as other legallydisadvantaged groups. the court decision //Lawrence vs. Texas// reversed //Bowers Vs. Howard// which declared private acts of consensual sodomy to be illegal and unconstitutional. Under the the due process clause, Homosexuals have the right to engage in their own conduct without intervention by the government.

===Discuss recent Supreme Court decisions regarding the rights of homosexuals. To what extent have these decisions expanded equality to homosexuals? What social factors limit the likely expansion of equality to homosexuals?===

Multiple Choice Questions
==Multiple Choice Questions (Annotate Bloom's cognitive level in parentheses using [|this sheet] or [|this sheet] for guidance.)== 1)A Majority of the Federal workforce today is employed in . . . A) Congress B)Cabinet Departments C) Government corporations D) Independent executive agencies {answer - cabinet departments}

2) The reason for the different rulings of the Supreme Court on Grutter and Gratz case was A) That the Gratz case dealt with Law school, while the Grutter case dealt with Undergraduate studies. B) That in Grutter the affirmative actionpolicy used made race a major feature of the application. C) That in Gratz the affirmative action policy used made race a major feature of the application. D) That that the Supreme court judged differently because of the racial differencee between Gratz and Grutter. (Answer)