Government_Ch8_homework-2

=**Government Chapter 8 Homework #2**= Use your notes and Internet guide to answer the following:

1. Based on your knowledge and study of the past, what is the meaning of Civil Rights today, which is different than in the past? (A) it means participation of women is unnecessary since one vote per household (B) racial minorities can be kept separate and it's not unequal (C) there must be equal treatment for all (D) there has been no change (E) all (F) none

2. Which group has experienced civil rights violations (unequal treatment) in the past? (A) Asian-Americans (B) African-Americans (C) women (D) Native Americans (E) all (F) none

3. What laws collectively allowed segregation after the Civil War? (A) 14th amendment (B) Jim Crow Laws (C) Separate but Equal laws (D) Ferguson laws (E) all (F) none

4. Which law ended legal segregation? (A) Emancipation Proclamation (B) //Brown v. Board of Education// ruling (C) Civil Rights Act of 1964 (D) Affirmative Action policies (E) all (F) none

5. Who pushed for black equality in the 1950s and 1960s? (A) Martin Luther King Jr. (B) Thurgood Marshall (C) Booker T. Washington (D) Al Sharpton (E) all (F) none

6. Which of the following pushed for women's rights? (A) Susan B. Anthony (B) Carrie Chapman Catt (C) Lucretia Mott (D) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (E) all (F) none

7. How have affirmative action policies changed? (A) it's mandatory everywhere (B) race can't be the sole criteria (C) discrimination against whites is legal (D) no change

8. You can become a citizen by being born here. How else? (A) nationalization (B) affirmative action (C) naturalization (D) identity theft (E) all (F) none

9. What is the major current issue with immigration? (A) quotas (B) refugee (C) illegal immigration (D) naturalization laws (E) all (F) none

10. Rachel Carson was a citizen with a major impact (some say good impact, some say negative impact) because //Silent Spring// led to laws. (A) desegregation (B) racial profiling (C) environmental (D) patriotic (E) all (F) none

11. Which book showed the atrocities of the Nazis in the Holocaust? (A) //Silent Spring// (B) //Modern Eugenics// (C) //Diary of Anne Frank// (D) //Diary of a Wimpy Kid// (E) all (F) none

12. How do entrepreneurs show positive impacts of citizens? (A) show value of hard work (B) create new goods consumers want to buy (C) create jobs (D) examples of the American dream that we can all accomplish (E) all (F) none

13. Why did/do people want to come to America?

14. How does a good citizen participate in a democracy?

15. How can participation in government lead to the attainment of political goals (in other words you feel strongly about a current issue - how can your participation lead to what you want in terms of that issue)?

16. What are some reasons for conflict in society? What are the positive ways to resolve conflict?

17. How can the media make change in society for the common good?

18. What is the most important duty of a citizen in a democracy? What are 3 other duties?

19. How are those with disabilities protected (give two ways)?

20. How can you be a good citizen in school? Are you? Why or why not?

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