Can You Score At Least 50% On This American Civil Rights QUIZ?

The Equal Rights Amendment was approved by Congress in 1972, but it has never been passed.

Retry Correct Incorrect 22 of the required 38 states ratified the amendment for equal rights among men and women, but an intense anti-ratification campaign succeeded in halting the process. Indiana was the 35th and last state to ratify the ERA in 1977, but no other states did by the 1982 deadline.

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The Equal Rights Amendment was approved by Congress in 1972, but it has never been passed.

• True, not enough states approved it by the ratification deadline.
• True, Congress took it back the following year.
• False, in 1972 the Equal Rights Amendment became protected by the U.S. Constitution.
• False, Congress didn’t approve it.