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The doctrine that people who do jobs that require the same level of skill, training, or education are thus entitled to equal pay is known as ________.

Comparable worth

Which of the following types of discrimination would be subject to the rational basis test?

A law that treats 8-year-olds differently from 32-year-olds

For a long time, state officials attempted to delay desegregation on the grounds that it would endanger public safety.

True

The Supreme Court turned over the responsibility for desegregation to ______.

State and local authorities

The Supreme Court decision ruling that “separate but equal” was constitutional and allowed racial segregation to take place was ________.

Plessy v. Ferguson

The _______ tribe was forcibly removed from Georgia to Oklahoma crossing what is now referred to as The Trail of Tears.

Cherokee

According to the constitutional argument of supporters of segregation, “separate but equal” did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment as long as “equal” facilities were provided.

True

The Americans with Disabilities Act protects the rights of people with learning disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, and physical disabilities.

True

“White flight” has contributed to continuing racial separation in public school systems.

True

________ refers to the separation of people by race.

Segregation

An example of a right explicitly protected by the Constitution as drafted at the Constitutional Convention is the ________.

Right to a writ of habeas corpus

One of the most important milestones in the civil rights movement, the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march did which of the following?

Vividly illustrated the continued resistance to Black civil rights in the Deep South

In which way did NAWSA differ from the NWP?

NAWSA worked to win votes for women on a state-by-state basis while the NWP wanted an amendment added to the Constitution.

The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution because ________.

Key states refused to ratify the Constitution unless it was added.

At the world’s first women’s rights convention in 1848, the most contentious issue proved to be ________.

Suffrage