Description
Read chapter 5 and 6 of the textbook.
Answer the following questions.
Each answer should be 2-3 substantial paragraphs in length. Each answer should contain information with citations from the textbook throughout the answer, for example (OpenStax, section 4.2).
the book is called American Government by OpenStax. The link to it is below and all the chapters can be found under the link Table of Contents https://openstax.org/details/books/american-government-2e
Chapter 5
1) Civil Rights regulate the way in which the government interacts and treats citizens. There is a long history of gaps in civil rights with regards to race and gender. Specifically, with the history of African Americans, provide 3 stories of how the national government had to expand their view of civil rights in order to include them; from slavery, to citizens, to equal status in America.
2) Describe the journey and plight of women & other groups to gaining more civil rights. What progress has been made politically?
Chapter 6
3) This chapter goes into detail about different aspects of public opinion. What are different factors that shape what our opinions are? How does public opinion effect elections?
4) Section 6.2 describes how we measure public opinion. Discuss any factor of polling that interests you.
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Running head: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
American Government
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AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
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American Government
Civil Rights regulate the way in which the government interacts and treats citizens. There
is a long history of gaps in civil rights with regards to race and gender. Specifically, with
the history of African Americans, provide 3 stories of how the national government had to
expand their view of civil rights in order to include them; from slavery, to citizens, to equal
status in America.
The Civil Rights Movement entailed three approaches and strategies, such as legal action,
black militancy and non-violent civil disobedience (OpenStax section 5.1). Regarding the legal
action, one of the initial methods concentrated in the courts. The approach was led by the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It started cases to
dwindle the legitimate Jim Crow discrimination within the Southern side. In the case of
landmark Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, the court decided that different facilities
naturally unfit and confirmed public education discrimination unconstitutional (OpenStax section
5.1). Although the court’s decision was a success for civil rights, the white ...
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