AP Gov Test 3: Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

The law making racial discrimination in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbidding many forms of job discrimination.

What Commission did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 create?

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to monitor and enforce protections against job discrimination.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 allow to be withheld from state and local governments/other institutions that practiced racial discrimination?

Federal grants.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 strengthen?

Voting rights legislation.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 authorize the U.S. Justice Department to do?

Initiate lawsuits to desegregate public schools and facilities.

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Prohibited the government from using voting procedures that denied a person the right to vote on the basis of race or color and abolished the use of literacy requirements for anyone who had completed the 6th grade.

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allow Congress and the federal government to do?

Oversee state elections in Southern States.

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 require States to need?

Preclearance on new election laws to that no loopholes could be created.

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 secure?

Majority-minority districts.

Majority-Minority Districts

Voting districts in which a minority group or group of minorities make up a majority.