Chapter 16: Civil Rights ACTUAL

Question 1

Guarantees of equal treatment by govt

Answer 1

Civil rights

Question 2

Portion of amendment 14 that says states cannot make laws that interfere with rights granted by govt

Answer 2

Privileges/immunities clause

Question 3

Prohibits deprivation of rights without due process of law, amendment 14

Answer 3

due process clause

Question 4

14th amendment section, provides for equal treatment in USA for residents in each state

Answer 4

equal protection clause

Question 5

Term for legally sanctioned racial segregation practices

Answer 5

Jim Crow

Question 6

Tax used as condition of voting to discriminate against black people

Answer 6

Poll tax

Question 7

Allowed whites who failed literacy test to vote if ancestors had voted before 1867 (african americans couldn’t vote before 1870)

Answer 7

grandfather clause

Question 8

Test to prevent blacks from voting

Answer 8

Literacy test

Question 8

Primary elections open only to whites in the south

Answer 8

White primaries

Question 9

Rendered privileges and immunities clause useless in 14th amdt.

Answer 9

Slaughterhouse cases (1873)

Question 10

formed basis of “separate but equal”

Answer 10

plessy vs ferguson (1896)

Question 10

Overturned plessy

Answer 10

Brown v Board of Education (1954)

Question 11

Outlawed slavery

Answer 11

amdt 13

Question 12

voting rights established for all races

Answer 12

amdt. 15

Question 12

made us citizens also citizens of their states

Answer 12

amdt. 14

Question 13

designation of a group for different or special treatment

Answer 13

suspect classification

Question 14

assumption that actions by elected bodies or officials violate the constitution, racial

Answer 14

strict scrutiny

Question 15

Unequal treatment based on laws

Answer 15

de jure discrimination

Question 16

part of 1965 voting rights act forcing states that discriminated to submit changes to their election laws to the justice department for approval or revision

Answer 16

preclearance

Question 17

banned racial discrimination in voting, allowed fed. govt to register voters, required preclearance

Answer 17

1965 voting rights act

Question 18

unequal treatment by private individuals, groups, organizations

Answer 18

de facto discrimination

Question 19

public and private programs favoring minorities and women as reparation for past discrimination

Answer 19

affirmative action

Question 20

legal test in which SC will allow gender classifications in law if they are substantially related to an important govt objective

Answer 20

intermediate action

Question 21

event after which spurred gay and lesbian rights movement

Answer 21

stonewall rebellion 1969

Question 22

case which legalized same-sex marriage in the united states

Answer 22

obergefell vs hodges 2015