AP Gov't Ch. 5

Question 1

Civil Rights

Answer 1

Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals.

Question 2

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 2

The constitutional amendment “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”

Question 3

Equal Protection of the Laws

Answer 3

Part of the Fourteenth Amendment emphasizing that the laws must provide equivalent “protection” to all people.

Question 4

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 4

The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude.

Question 5

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 5

The law making racial discrimination in hotels, motels, and restraints illegal and forbidding any forms of job discrimination.

Question 6

Suffrage

Answer 6

The legal right to vote, extended to African Americans by the Fifteenth Amendment, to women by the Nineteenth, and the people over the age of 18 by the Twenty-Sixth Amendment.

Question 7

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 7

The constitutional amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African Americans.

Question 8

Poll Taxes

Answer 8

Small taxes levied on the right to vote.

Question 9

White Primary

Answer 9

Primary elections from which African Americans were excluded, an exclusion that, in the heavily Democratic South, deprived African Americans of a voice in real contests.

Question 10

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Answer 10

The constitutional amendment passed in 1964 that declared poll taxed void in federal elections.

Question 11

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 11

A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were registered, and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically.

Question 12

Nineteenth Amendment

Answer 12

The constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote.

Question 13

Equal Right Amendment

Answer 13

A constitutional amendment stating that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Fell short of the three-fourths vote.

Question 14

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Answer 14

A law passed in 1990 that requires employers and public facilities to make “reasonable accommodations” for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against these individuals in employment.

Question 15

Affirmative Action

Answer 15

A policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group.