Multiple Choice Questions

What was the Supreme Court's ruling in Shelley v. Kraemer?
  • anyone born in the United States was entitled to be a citizen.
  • Racially restrictive covenants on housing could not be enforced by courts.
  • quotas and separate admissions standards for minorities were unconstitutional but affirmative action could be used.
  • established the separate but equal rule.
In their response to Brown v. Board of Education, southern states did all of the following except
  • quickly desegregate their schools.
  • requiring that federal grants-in-aid to state and local government for education be withheld from any school system practicing racial segregation.
  • established the separate but equal rule.
  • Racially restrictive covenants on housing could not be enforced by courts.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had the most success with which political strategies for combating racism?
  • The courts decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation.
  • racial classifications.
  • lawsuits
  • gerrymandering.
What happened to California's Proposition 187?
  • a meeting in upstate New York during the mid-nineteenth century regarding women's rights
  • A federal court declared most of it a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
  • the practice of banks refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods
  • made literacy tests illegal and mandated bilingual ballots or other assistance for non-English-speaking Americans.
The Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson
  • established the separate but equal rule.
  • quotas and separate admissions standards for minorities were unconstitutional but affirmative action could be used.
  • Racially restrictive covenants on housing could not be enforced by courts.
  • anyone born in the United States was entitled to be a citizen.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
  • It barred unauthorized immigrants from receiving most public services.
  • A federal court declared most of it a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
  • a meeting in upstate New York during the mid-nineteenth century regarding women's rights
  • the practice of banks refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods
Most of the government's positive actions associated with the civil rights issue in the United States stem from the application of
  • the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
  • the plaintiff need prove neither economic nor psychological harm
  • The courts decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation.
  • the practice of banks refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods
The rights of disabled individuals to both access public businesses and not be discriminated against in employment are guaranteed by
  • the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
  • struck down a state law criminalizing homosexual conduct.
  • the system of racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction
  • the plaintiff need prove neither economic nor psychological harm
Which area of discrimination was touched by the legal principles of Brown v. Board of Education?
  • G.I. Forum, LULAC, MALDEF
  • The Court overturned forms of segregation using the separate but equal rule on factual grounds.
  • public schools
  • the White House.
In dealing with the issue of gays in the military, President Bill Clinton established a
  • "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
  • gerrymandering.
  • racial classifications.
  • the plaintiff need prove neither economic nor psychological harm
California Proposition 209 was designed to
  • anyone born in the United States was entitled to be a citizen.
  • It was not ratified by the necessary thirty-eight states.
  • outlaw all affirmative action programs in state and local government.
  • established the separate but equal rule.
Which of the following cases helped lead to the Civil War?
  • There was no constitutional right to privacy for consensual homosexual activity.
  • Chinese
  • Lyndon Johnson
  • Marbury v. Madison
What did the Supreme Court rule in Bowers v. Hardwick?
  • Racially restrictive covenants on housing could not be enforced by courts.
  • Lyndon Johnson
  • There was no constitutional right to privacy for consensual homosexual activity.
  • Wyoming
In Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court
  • the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • struck down a state law criminalizing homosexual conduct.
  • There was no constitutional right to privacy for consensual homosexual activity.
  • It declared the act unconstitutional because it protected against acts of private discrimination, not state discrimination.
Which of the following people is most associated with the abolitionist movement?
  • racial classifications.
  • the White House.
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • G.I. Forum, LULAC, MALDEF
Which of the following best describes the federal courts' trend toward school desegregation in the 1990s?
  • The courts decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation.
  • the practice of banks refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • the plaintiff need prove neither economic nor psychological harm
Under what conditions can a plaintiff successfully bring a sexual harassment charge?
  • the plaintiff need prove neither economic nor psychological harm
  • the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
  • the practice of banks refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods
  • The courts decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation.
It was during the tenure of Chief Justice ______ that the Supreme Court established gender discrimination as a highly visible area of civil rights law.
  • Burger
  • The courts decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation.
  • lawsuits
  • the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress vastly expanded the role of the executive branch and the credibility of court orders by
  • quickly desegregate their schools.
  • requiring that federal grants-in-aid to state and local government for education be withheld from any school system practicing racial segregation.
  • quotas and separate admissions standards for minorities were unconstitutional but affirmative action could be used.
  • It was not ratified by the necessary thirty-eight states.
What was the Supreme Court's record in segregation cases in the years before Brown v. Board of Education?
  • the practice of banks refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods
  • The courts decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation.
  • The Court overturned forms of segregation using the separate but equal rule on factual grounds.
  • public schools
In 1890, ______ became the first state to allow women to vote.
  • Wyoming
  • Chinese
  • Lyndon Johnson
  • Marbury v. Madison
United States v. Wong Kim Ark is an important case because it declared that
  • anyone born in the United States was entitled to be a citizen.
  • protect African Americans from discrimination in public accommodations like hotels and theaters.
  • quickly desegregate their schools.
  • Racially restrictive covenants on housing could not be enforced by courts.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees
  • the right to vote for African American men.
  • It was not ratified by the necessary thirty-eight states.
  • protect African Americans from discrimination in public accommodations like hotels and theaters.
  • It abolished slavery.
In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that
  • requiring that federal grants-in-aid to state and local government for education be withheld from any school system practicing racial segregation.
  • protect African Americans from discrimination in public accommodations like hotels and theaters.
  • quickly desegregate their schools.
  • quotas and separate admissions standards for minorities were unconstitutional but affirmative action could be used.
What is the key question behind civil rights protection?
  • What is the proper meaning of equal rights?
  • university athletic programs.
  • severely limited in scope by the Supreme Court.
  • the end of slavery
During the late nineteenth century, the equal protection clause was
  • They were considered to be foreigners because their tribes were regarded as separate nations.
  • university athletic programs.
  • severely limited in scope by the Supreme Court.
  • What is the proper meaning of equal rights?
One step taken toward the desegregation of public schools was
  • It barred unauthorized immigrants from receiving most public services.
  • busing children from poor urban school districts to wealthier suburban ones.
  • A federal court declared most of it a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
  • the practice of banks refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods
What was the Supreme Court's response to the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
  • struck down a state law criminalizing homosexual conduct.
  • It declared the act unconstitutional because it protected against acts of private discrimination, not state discrimination.
  • It barred unauthorized immigrants from receiving most public services.
  • the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Before the 1920s, what was the political status of Native Americans?
  • The courts decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation.
  • the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
  • severely limited in scope by the Supreme Court.
  • They were considered to be foreigners because their tribes were regarded as separate nations.
What was the purpose of California's Proposition 187?
  • What is the proper meaning of equal rights?
  • It barred unauthorized immigrants from receiving most public services.
  • A federal court declared most of it a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
  • a meeting in upstate New York during the mid-nineteenth century regarding women's rights
To draw voting districts so that one group or party is unfairly advantaged is called
  • the end of slavery
  • gerrymandering.
  • Burger
  • "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Which of the following are names of Latino civil rights organizations?
  • "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
  • G.I. Forum, LULAC, MALDEF
  • severely limited in scope by the Supreme Court.
  • The courts decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation.
Who inaugurated government affirmative action programs?
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • Wyoming
  • Lyndon Johnson
  • Chinese
What forbade workplace discrimination based on race?
  • struck down a state law criminalizing homosexual conduct.
  • It declared the act unconstitutional because it protected against acts of private discrimination, not state discrimination.
  • the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
"Strict scrutiny" is the level of judicial review the federal courts give to all cases that involve
  • "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • G.I. Forum, LULAC, MALDEF
  • racial classifications.
A 1948 report on the problem of racial discrimination, To Secure These Rights, was issued by
  • gerrymandering.
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • the White House.
  • de jure
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