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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People in their ___ make up the fastest growing age group | 80s |
| How old was the oldest person in space and who was he? | 77, John Glenn |
| What was the retirement age when Social Security began in the 1930s? | 65 |
| When did Congress first ban some forms of age discrimination? | 1967 |
| When did a civil rights law deny federal funds to any institution discriminating against people over the age of 40? | 1975 |
| Congress amended the Age Discrimination in Employment Act in _____ to raise the general compulsory retirement age to ____. | 1978, 70 |
| Age classifications fall under the ______ _____ test | rational basis |
| 2000 Supreme Court decision holding that a a plaintiff's evidence of an employer's bias, combined with evidence to show justification false, may permit courts to conclude an employer discriminated. | Reeves v. Sanderson |
| When were the first rehabilitation laws passed to benefit the veterans of World War I? | late 1920s |
| law that added people with disabilities to list of Americans protected from discrimination | Rehabilitation Act of 1973 |
| law that entitled all children to a free public education appropriate to their needs | Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 |
| law that requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accomodations" for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against these individuals in employment | Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 |
| Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that the ADA offered protection against discrimination to people with _____ | AIDS |
| Why are laws designed to protect rights of individuals with disabilities met with opposition and sluggish enforcement? | cost |
| What group has the toughest battle for equality? | gay and lesbians |
| Homophobia was the motive for the 1998 killing of _______ _________. | Matthew Shepard |
| When did police raid a gay bar called Stonewall that resulted in violence and arrests? | 1969 |
| 1986 Supreme Court decision that allowed states to ban homosexual relations | Bowers v. Hardwick |
| When did Clinton announce a "don't ask, don't tell" policy that barred the Pentagon from asking military recruits to disclose their sexual orientation and recruits from telling anyone their sexual orientation? | 1993 |
| ___ states and over ____ communities have passed laws protecting homosexuals against some form of discrimination. | 7, 100 |
| 1996 Supreme Court decision that voided a state constitutional amendment in Colorado that denied homosexuals protection against discrimination | Romer v. Evans |
| 2003 Supreme Court decision that overturned Bowers v. Hardwick and voided a Texan antisomody law | Lawrence v. Texas |
| When did Congress pass the Defense of Marriage Act, permitting states to disregard gay marriages? | 1996 |
| Which states have civil unions? | Vermont and Connecticut |
| When did Massachusetts' Supreme Court declare the state's constitution guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry? | 2003 |
| policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group | affirmative action |
| 1978 Supreme Court decision that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of race | Regents of the University of California v. Blake |
| 1979 Supreme Court decision that found that the Kaiser Aluminum Company, who had a quota for its special training program, could take more African Americans than Whites | United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO v. Weber |
| In ______, the Supreme Court found that a Richmond plan that reserved ___ percent of city subcontracts for minority firms to be unconstituional | 1989, 30 |
| 1995 Supreme Court decision that federal programs that classify people by race should be presumed to be unconstitutional | Adarand Constructors v. Pena |
| Opposition of affirmative action is strong when it is viewed as _______ _________. | reverse discrimination |
| 2003 Supreme Court decision that upheld University of Michigan law school's use of race as an admission factor but struck down their system of adding 20 extra points to the applications of minority students | Grutter v. Bollinger |
| What is the ratio (in percentages) of women to men in America? | 53 to 47 |
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