Chapter_38_Challenges_to_the_Postwar_Order_1973_1980 (1)
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Chapter_38_Challenges_to_the_Postwar_Order_1973_1980 (1)

 

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44. The Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade declared state laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional because they

  a. violated the First Amendment by using a religious definition of person.
  b. violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by placing a particular burden on women not placed on men.
  c. wrote into law a particular philosophical and scientific view of human life that imposed unfair treatment on those who disagreed.
  d. violated the Fifth Amendment by interfering with doctors’ professional medical practices.
  e. violated a woman’s constitutional right to privacy in her own person.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Feminist Victories and Defeats

 

45. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by the needed 38 states largely because

  a. the Catholic Church opposed it.
  b. many Americans realized that its goals had already been achieved without amending the Constitution.
  c. an antifeminist backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly stirred sufficient opposition to stop it.
  d. many suspected that it would require such things as rigid quotas and unisex bathrooms.
  e. many Americans believed that equal gender treatment was a matter of changing attitudes, not creating laws.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Feminist Victories and Defeats

 

46. As part of the backlash against the women’s movement, antifeminists blamed feminists for

  a. rising rates of juvenile delinquency.
  b. escalating divorce rates.
  c. increased teen pregnancy.
  d. rising incidences of violence against women.
  e. changing sexual norms.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Feminist Victories and Defeats

 

47. The most explosive domestic controversy of the 1970s centered around issues of

  a. race.
  b. labor.
  c. the environment.
  d. sexuality.
  e. immigration.

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Seventies in Black and White

 

48. The effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Milliken v. Bradley, which held that integration did not have to take place across school district lines, was to

  a. encourage voluntary busing programs.
  b. cause Congress to pass laws equalizing school funding in different districts.
  c. turn public attention to eliminating segregated housing patterns.
  d. reinforce the division between poorer, minority inner city schools and nearly all-white suburbs.
  e. end school busing programs in favor of the neighborhood school.

 

ANSWER:   d
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Seventies in Black and White

 

49. The Supreme Court, in the Bakke case, held that

  a. all forms of affirmative action in college admissions were unconstitutional.
  b. the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited race from being taken into account as one of the factors in college admissions.
  c. public universities could impose racial quotas but private universities did not have to do so.
  d. it was acceptable for universities to establish minority-based programs and housing arrangements.
  e. racial quotas were unconstitutional but race could be taken into account as one factor in college admissions.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Seventies in Black and White

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