A.P.
Assignment #21: March 3, 2008
1. Read: Read chapter 6 on Civil Rights and chapter 17
on Social Welfare Policy. Annotate the
chapters. (Due March 24). Expect a test on March 24 on chapters
10, 5, and 6.
Locate
and take the quiz on-line—send me your results.
Answer the following questions and define the terms on a separate piece
of paper; your responses should be thorough and analytical. The questions should be answered in complete
paragraphs—they should begin with clear topic sentences. (Due March 24).
Chapter 6
Terms:
1. Affirmative Action
2. Black Codes
3. Brown
v. Board of Education (1954)
4. Civil Rights
5. Civil Rights Act of 1964
6. Civil
Rights Cases (1883)
7. De
facto Discrimination
8. De jure
Discrimination
9. Equal Employment
10. Equal Protection Clause
11. Equal Rights Amendment
12. Fifteenth Amendment
13. Fourteenth Amendment
14. Grandfather Clause
15. Jim Crow Laws
16. Nineteenth Amendment
17. Plessy v.
18. Poll Tax
19. Strict Scrutiny
20. Suffrage Movement
21. Suspect Classification
22. Thirteenth Amendment
23. Title IX
SHORT ANSWER.
Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers
the question.
1) How has the Civil Rights Division of the
Department of Justice changed since George W. Bush took office?
2) What was the Abolitionist movement?
3) What were grandfather clauses and why did
Southern States enact them?
4) Discuss the impact of Bury my Heart at
5) What were Black Codes?
6) What's the difference between de facto and de
jure discrimination?
7) Who was Rosa Parks?
8) What was the ruling in Plessy v.
9) What did each of the Civil War Amendments
attempt to accomplish?
10) What were Jim Crow laws?
11) What is the status of same-sex marriage in
the
12) When deciding equal protection cases, what
sort of classification is entitled to strict scrutiny?
13) What was the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
14) What has the Supreme Court decided most
recently regarding affirmative action?
ESSAY. Write
your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
15) Discuss the expansion of civil rights for
African Americans through the courts.
16) What nonviolent strategies did the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and other organizations use in their
efforts to expand civil rights?
17) Compare and contrast the abolitionist and
women's suffrage movements.
18) Discuss the different standards the Supreme
Court uses when determining violations of the equal protection clause. Include examples to illustrate how these
standards apply according to the type of classification.
19) Compare and contrast the strategies for
increasing the civil rights of Hispanics, Native Americans, gays and lesbians,
and disabled Americans. How successful
have each of these groups been?
20) Trace the evolution of Supreme Court
decisions regarding affirmative action.
What is public opinion about affirmative action?
21) Discuss how the rights of African Americans
were restricted after the Civil War. How did legislation and constitutional
amendments attempt to expand these rights?
How successful were these efforts?
Chapter 17
Terms:
1. Agenda
2. Agenda Setting
3. Entitlement Program
4. Governmental (Institutional) Agenda
5. Means-tested Program
6. Medicaid
7. Medicare
8. Non-means-based Program
9. Policy Adoption
10. Policy Evaluation
11. Policy Formulation
12. Policy Implementation
13. Public Policy
14. Social Security Act
15. Social Welfare Policy
16. Systemic Agenda
SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes
each statement or answers the question.
1) How should one evaluate public policies?
2) What types of policies are considered social
welfare policies?
3) Compare and contrast authoritative and
incentive techniques for policy implementation.
4) How have voucher plans and charter schools
tried to address problems in public education?
5) Discuss the different public policy agendas.
6) Explain the difference between Medicare and
Medicaid.
7) How was welfare reformed in 1996?
8) Why is school funding controversial?
9) How do budgets affect public policies?
10) Compare and contrast means-tested and non
means-based programs.
11) What is policy implementation? What is involved and what are the possible
pitfalls?
ESSAY. Write your answer on a separate sheet of
paper.
12) Define the nature of income security programs
and discuss how successful they have been at alleviating the problems of
poverty and economic dependency.
13) Discuss the seven steps of the policy
process. Give specific examples for each
and discuss why each step is important.
14) How has the government addressed health care
in the
15) Discuss the arguments for and the arguments
against the Healthy Marriage Initiative.
16) Discuss the nature of federal involvement
with public education. When did it
start? Who has primary responsibility
for education and why? How have reform
efforts dealt with the problems facing public education today?
17) How and why has social welfare policy changed
in the last several decades? Give
specific examples.
2. Current Events: Once again, read the news—be prepared to take a quiz
next week on events of significance in the news. Be sure you are familiar with what is going
on in the primary elections, the war in
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Unit Six |
Public Policy |
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Week Twenty-four (3/10) |
Civil Rights |
Chapter 6, O’Connor |
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Easter Break (3/17) |
Social Welfare Policy |
Chapter 17, O’Connor |
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Week Twenty-five (3/24) |
Economic Policy |
Chapter 18, O’Connor |
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Week Twenty-six (3/31) |
Foreign and Military
Policy |
Chapter 19, O’Connor |
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Week Twenty-seven (4/7) |
Unit
test #6 |
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Unit Seven |
A.P. Review |
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Week Twenty-eight (4/14) |
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Practice Test |
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Week Twenty-nine (4/21) |
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Practice Test |
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Week Thirty (4/28) |
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Practice Test |
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Week Thirty-one (5/5) |
A.P.
Exam |
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Week Thirty-two (5/12) |
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Week Thirty-three (5/19) |
Semester
Final Exam |
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