POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo Salas

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POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo
Salas

• Part 2
• Assignment 11

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Notice

• Dear students
• The odd-numbered questions are answered for
  you. The answers to the even-numbered questions
  are the result of your readings. This is to
  assure that you are understanding the material.
  Good luck!

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Assignment 11
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Equal Rights

• T or F Questions (8)
• Multiple Choice questions (10)
• Fill-in Questions (2)

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True or False Questions

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True or False

• 1/8
• In theory, Americans are equal in their
  rights, but in practice, they are not equal
  today, nor have they ever been.

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Answer

• 1/8
• True

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True or False

• 2/8
• To oversimplify, civil liberties deal with
  issues of personal freedom, and civil rights
  involve issues of equality.

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True or False

• 3/8
• Equality has always been the least fully
  developed of America's founding concepts.

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Answer

• 3/8
• True

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True or False

• 4/8
• Studies have found that African Americans
  accused of crime are more likely to be convicted
  and receive stiffer sentences than white
  Americans on trial for comparable offenses.

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True or False

• 5/8
• Historically, when a woman got married, she
  essentially lost her identity as an individual
  and could not own and dispose of property without
  her husband's consent.

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Answer

• 5/8
• True

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True or False

• 6/8
• The Fifteenth Amendment gave both former
  slaves and women the right to vote.

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True or False

• 7/8
• There is no protection against sexual
  harassment in the workplace, the Supreme Court
  refusing to hear such cases for lack of evidence.

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Answer

• 7/8
• False

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True or False

• 8/8
• Compared to men, more women attend college,
  complete their degrees faster and have better
  grades.

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Multiple Choice Questions

• The following questions are multiple choices.
  Select the most appropriate answer.

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1/10

• The study conducted by the Urban Institute
• examining the treatment of African
• Americans compared to their white
• counterparts found that
• a) blacks were treated almost the same as that
• of whites
• b) whites experienced similar forms of
• discrimination as blacks
• c) the level of discrimination experienced by
  both
• groups was negligible
• d) blacks experienced discrimination far
  greater
• than originally anticipated.

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Answer

• 1/10
• d

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2/10

• Refers to the right of every person
• to equal protection under the law
• and equal access to society's
• opportunities and public facilities
• a) civil liberties
• b) equal justice
• c) civil rights
• d) alienable rights.

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3/10

• For Thomas Jefferson, what did he mean by
  equality in the Declaration?
• a) no precise meaning could be determined
• b) equality for all, including slaves
• c) equality for both white men and women, not
• slaves
• d) a financial equality directed by
  government.

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Answer

• 3/10
• a

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4/10

• The infamous Supreme Court decision of 1896
  which legitimized "Jim Crow" laws, allowing for
  the legal segregation of the races thus,
  establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine
• a) Dred Scott v Sanford
• b) Burns v Hamilton
• c) Allison v McKenzie
• d) Plessy v Ferguson.

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5/10

• The Supreme Court (Tinker v Colwell, 1904)
• ruled that a wife's adultery was
• a) a violation of marital vows
• b) immoral, but not illegal
• c) a violation of the husband's property
  rights
• d) a private matter that has no business in a
• civil case.

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Answer

• 5/10
• c

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6/10

• Which amendment to the Constitution gave women
  the right to vote?
• a) 17th b) 18th
• c) 19th d) 20th

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7/10

• The substantial difference between how women
  vote compared to men
• a) sexual revolution
• b) gender gap
• c) sex electoral distinctiveness
• d) female homogeneity

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Answer

• 7/10
• b

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8/10

• The following refers to the invisible but
  nonetheless real barrier to advancement that
  talented women encounter after having reached the
  middle-management level
• a) women's job wall
• b) gender inequality
• c) female discrimination
• d) glass ceiling.

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9/10

• On average, full-time women employees earn
  about what amount compared to full-time men
  employees?
• a) one-half
• b) two-thirds
• d) three-fourths
• d) three-fifths.

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Answer

• 9/10
• c

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10/10

• Which of the following terms define the
  concept of equal pay for equal work, a demand
  being made by leading feminists
• a) comparable worth
• b) equitable pay
• c) fair compensation
• d) just wages.

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Fill-in Questions

• The following questions have missing critical
  words. Fill in the most appropriate missing word.

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1/2

• The United States carried over from English
  common law a political disregard for women,
• a) forbidding them to _____,
• b) hold ________ ________,
• c) and serve on ________.

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Answer

• 1/2
• a) vote
• b) public office
• c) juries

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2/2

• Among the congressional initiatives that have
  helped women are the
• a) ______ ____ ____ of 1963, which prohibits sex
  discrimination in salary and wages by some
  categories of employers
• b) ______ ___ of the Education Amendment of
  1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in
  education
• c) The _______ _______ ____ of 1974, as amended
  in 1976, which prohibits sex discrimination in
  the granting of financial credit.

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The End