Answer: Established a constitutional right to abortion (later overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson, 2022) A landmark women's rights decision based on right to privacy; controversial throughout its history.

The 1973 Wounded Knee occupation by AIM directly protested

Answer: Tribal council corruption and federal failure to honor treaties AIM members occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days, protesting the Pine Ridge tribal government and demanding Senate review of treaties.

Which legislative achievement is most directly associated with the labor-force trend shown?

Answer: Title IX of the Education Amendments (1972) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act (1972) Title IX banned sex discrimination in federally funded education, opening graduate and professional programs. The 1972 EEO Act extended Title VII enforcement, supporting women's expanded workforce participation.

AP US History · Topic 8.11

The Civil Rights Movement Expands Practice

Part of Period 8: 1945–1980.

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Sample 1difficulty 3/5
$Roe v. Wade (1973)$
- A
  $Banned all abortion procedures nationwide and was upheld by the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey$
- B
  $Was a state-level Texas ruling with no national effect, applying only to clinics operating in Dallas County$
- C
  $Was a tax ruling holding that medical procedures could not be deducted as charitable contributions$
- D
  $Established a constitutional right to abortion (later overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson, 2022)$
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Why
$A landmark women's rights decision based on right to privacy; controversial throughout its history.$
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Sample 2difficulty 3/5
$"The American Indian Movement is here to bring back the recognition that we are still a people. Five hundred years of so-called civilization has not destroyed us. Wounded Knee in 1890 was supposed to end the Indian. We came back to Wounded Knee in 1973 to tell America that the Lakota Nation lives. We demand treaty rights restored." — Russell Means, 1974$
$The 1973 Wounded Knee occupation by AIM directly protested$
- A
  $Boarding-school enrollment$
- B
  $Tribal council corruption and federal failure to honor treaties$
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- C
  $Bureau of Land Management grazing fees$
- D
  $Casino gambling restrictions$
Why
$AIM members occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days, protesting the Pine Ridge tribal government and demanding Senate review of treaties.$
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Sample 3difficulty 3/5
$Which legislative achievement is most directly associated with the labor-force trend shown?$
- A
  $The Smoot-Hawley Tariff$
- B
  $The National Labor Relations Act of 1935$
- C
  $The Sherman Antitrust Act$
- D
  $Title IX of the Education Amendments (1972) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act (1972)$
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Why
$Title IX banned sex discrimination in federally funded education, opening graduate and professional programs. The 1972 EEO Act extended Title VII enforcement, supporting women's expanded workforce participation.$
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Sample 4difficulty 3/5
$"The American Indian Movement is here to bring back the recognition that we are still a people. Five hundred years of so-called civilization has not destroyed us. Wounded Knee in 1890 was supposed to end the Indian. We came back to Wounded Knee in 1973 to tell America that the Lakota Nation lives. We demand treaty rights restored." — Russell Means, 1974$
$AIM activism contributed to passage of which 1975 federal law?$
- A
  $Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act$
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- B
  $Indian Reorganization Act$
- C
  $Indian Removal Act$
- D
  $General Allotment Act$
Why
$The 1975 act allowed tribes to contract for federal services and run their own programs, reversing decades of termination policy.$
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Sample 5difficulty 4/5
$"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. As Black women we have been forced to recognize that the fight for racial liberation will not free us from sexual oppression, nor will the women's movement free us from the violence of poverty. We must define ourselves." — Audre Lorde, 1979$
$Lorde's contribution to feminist thought is best described as$
- A
  $Filing Reed v. Reed$
- B
  $Articulating intersectional analysis of overlapping oppressions$
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- C
  $Drafting the ERA$
- D
  $Founding NOW$
Why
$Lorde's writings developed intersectional analysis later codified by scholars like Kimberle Crenshaw in the 1980s.$
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