Question 1

Which of the following statements about civil rights and the scope of government is FALSE?

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A)  Civil rights laws tend to decrease the scope and power of government.
B)  Civil rights laws regulate the behavior of individuals and institutions.
C)  Current civil rights laws do not conform to the eighteenth-century understanding of limited government.
D)  Increased government activity in protecting basic rights can lead to greater checks on government by those who benefit from these protections.
E)  Equality tends to favor majority rule.F) B) and C)
G) All of the above

Question 2

State laws that restrict the right to vote to people over the age of 18 are an example of

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A)  a permissible basis for discrimination under the Supreme Court's standards of classification.
B)  an arbitrary classification under the Supreme Court's standards of classification.
C)  an inherently suspect classification under the Supreme Court's standards of classification.
D)  an intermediate classification under the Supreme Court's standards of classification.
E)  None of these is true.F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 3

Alice Paul authored the Equal Rights Amendment and unsuccessfully pushed for its passage beginning in the

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A)  1920s.
B)  1940s.
C)  1960s.
D)  1970s.
E)  1980s.F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 4

Implementation of the Fifteenth Amendment proceeded swiftly and with the total support of the states.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Civil rights laws increase the scope and power of government.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The equal protection clause has been used extensively.Describe its significance and how courts have used it to rule on matters related to racial and gender equality.Do you approve of this use of the clause? Explain.

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The equal protection clause, found in th...

Question 7

The "grandfather clause" was passed by Oklahoma and other southern states to

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A)  exclude Blacks from having the right to vote in primary elections,though they could vote in general elections.
B)  guarantee the equal rights of senior citizens in employment.
C)  deny African Americans the right to vote.
D)  deny land to anyone whose grandfathers were not White.
E)  distribute land to former slaves on the basis of how many generations they had served on a particular plantation.F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 8

Discuss recent Supreme Court decisions regarding the rights of homosexuals.To what extent have these decisions expanded equality to homosexuals? What is the likely future of the gay marriage debate?

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Recently, the Supreme Court has made sev...

Question 9

One result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a dramatic increase in the number of African Americans registered to vote in the South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Classifications based on gender have been ruled to be ________ by the decisions of the Court in the past several years.

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A)  reasonable
B)  strictly unconstitutional
C)  sexist
D)  inherently suspect
E)  somewhere between inherently suspect and reasonableF) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 11

The Twenty-fourth Amendment outlawed the grandfather clause,which was still being used until the 1960s to deny African Americans their constitutional right to vote.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

In Parents Involved in Community Schools v.Seattle School District No.1 (2007) ,the Supreme Court

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A)  held that the school district's use of race in voluntary integration plans violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection.
B)  held that the school district's use of race in voluntary integration plans was constitutional.
C)  held that school districts inherently possessed an inherent interest in remedying the effects of past segregation and,thus,could consider race in their strategies toward integration.
D)  ruled that school districts could consider race as a primary factor in preventing resegregation of public schools.
E)  overturned previous rulings that prohibited the consideration of race in determining the boundaries of public school districts.F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 13

What was so dramatic about the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v.Board of Education? How did the decision affect schools in its immediate aftermath? Should the Court have been more aggressive,or less? Explain.

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The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v....

Question 14

Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from the map on page 144 ("My State: A Nation of Minorities") ?

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A)  The states with the smallest non-White populations include the states of Idaho,South Dakota,North Dakota,and Montana.
B)  A majority of the populations in the states of Hawaii,California,Texas,and New Mexico are non-White.
C)  Nineteen states in the U.S. are comprised of populations that are 15 to 29 percent non-White.
D)  All of the above are true.
E)  None of the above is true.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 15

The Brown v.Board of Education decision overturned the Supreme Court's 1896 ruling in

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A)  Craig v. Boren.
B)  Dred Scott v. Sandford.
C)  Marbury v. Madison.
D)  Amos v. Alabama.
E)  Plessy v. Ferguson.F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 16

What were some of the methods used by southern states to deny African Americans the right to vote after passage of the Fifteenth Amendment? How did the Court respond to these measures?

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After the passage of the Fifteenth Amend...

Question 17

Legal segregation of the races was declared unconstitutional in public schools in the 1954 landmark ruling known as

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A)  King v. University of Kansas.
B)  Plessy v. Ferguson.
C)  Dred Scott v. Sandford.
D)  Craig v. Boren.
E)  Brown v. Board of Education.F) B) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 18

In which case did the Supreme Court hold that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely on the basis of their race?

Accepted Answer

A)  Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
B)  Adarand Constructors v. Pena
C)  Grutter v. Bollinger
D)  Reed v. Reed
E)  Brown v. Board of EducationF) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 19

In 1964,Congress prohibited federal aid to schools that remained segregated in the

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A)  Civil Rights Act.
B)  No Child Left Behind Act.
C)  National Education Act.
D)  Equal Opportunity Act.
E)  Equality of Education Act.F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 20

Poll taxes for federal elections were outlawed in the

Accepted Answer

A)  Voting Rights Act.
B)  Civil Rights Act of 1964.
C)  Supreme Court's Guinn v. United States decision of 1915.
D)  Twenty-fourth Amendment.
E)  Tax Reform Act of 1963.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

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What was so dramatic about the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v.Board of Education? How did the decision affect schools in its immediate aftermath? Should the Court have been more aggressive,or less? Explain.

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What were some of the methods used by southern states to deny African Americans the right to vote after passage of the Fifteenth Amendment? How did the Court respond to these measures?

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