Chapter 5 Flashcards
What is the key question behind civil rights protection?
a. What limits are placed on the government’s power over individuals?
b. What is the proper meaning of equality?
c. What is the appropriate role of the federal government?
d. How has the expansion of the bureaucracy affected democracy?
b. What is the proper meaning of equality?
The NAACP had the most success with which of the following political strategies for combating racism?
A)mass marches and protests
B) civil disobedience
C) lawsuits
D) passive resistance
C) lawsuits
Which of the following best describes how to distinguish civil rights from civil liberties?
A) Unlike civil liberties, civil rights place positive obligations on the government to take action
B) Unlike civil liberties, civil rights restrict and limit govt action
C) Unlike civil liberate, only state got enforce civil rights
D) Unlike civil liberties, civil rights protect corporations as well as individuals
A) Unlike civil liberate, civil rights place positive obligations on the government to take action
The attempt to rainy the Equal Rights Amendment was an important political struggle for
A) African Americans
B)Native Americans
C) women
D) gay and lesbians
C) women
Which of the following was not used as a way to prevent african americans from voting?
a. poll taxes
b. literacy tests
c. restrictive covenants
d. white primaries
c. restrictive covenants
The right to vote was strengthened in 1975 when congress
A) made literacy tests mandatory for presidential elections
B) made literacy tests illegal and mandated bilingual ballots or other assistance for non-english-speaking americans
C) gave women the right to vote
D) gave eighteen-year-olds the right to vote
B) made literacy tests illegal and mandated bilingual ballots or other assistance for non-english-speaking americans
who inaugurated government affirmative action programs?
A) granklin d. roosevelt
B) dwight d. eisenhower
C) lyndon b. johnson
D) richard m. nixon
C) lyndon b. johnson
which of the following best summarizes the supreme court’s ruling in brown v. board of education?
A) racially segregated schools can never be equal
B) states that segregate need to spend more money to make african american schools equal
C) the federal judiciary, but not congress, has the power to enforce civil rights
D) school segregation was unfair but did not violate the fourteenth amendment
A) racially segregated schools can never be equal
Which of the following best describes the trend in the federal courts toward school desegregation sice the 1990s?
A) the courts have increased the federal supervision of local school desegregation
B) the courts have decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation
C) federal courts have continued the active use of busing
D) federal courts have ordered the withdrawal of federal education funds for school districts that do not combat de facto desegregation
B) the courts have decreased the federal supervision of local school desegregation
Proposition 209, passed by california voters in 1996, did what?
A) added civil rights protections for gays and lesbians to the state constitution
B) prohibited all use of affirmative action by state or local governments
C) protected illegal aliens from discrimination by government agents
D) allowed use of race for university admission policies but not for hiring or government contracts
B) prohibited all use of affirmative action by state or local governments
In the civil rights act of 1964, congress vastly expanded the role of the executive branch and the credibility of court orders by
A) mandating that the southern states racially gerrymander their legislative districts to ensure that more african americans were elected to congress
B) creating the strict scrutiny test
C)creating a department of civil rights
D) requiring that federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments for education be withheld from any school system practicing racial segregation
D) requiring that federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments for education be withheld from any school system practicing racial segregation
The supreme court’s ruling in plessy v. ferguson
A) announced the separate but equal rule
B) upheld the civil rights act of 1875
C) declared that segregation by race was unconstitutional
D) ruled that the equal protection clause did not cover private acts of discrimination
A) announced the separate but equal rule
Women were guaranteed the right to vote with the passage of the nineteenth amendment, which was ratified in
A) 1820
B) 1880
C) 1920
D) 1970
C) 1920
What was the goal pursued by members of the abolitionist movement?
A) the end of slavery
B the overthrow of the U.S. constitution
C) the removal of all tariffs on slave-produced goods
D)the removal of all nonwhites from U.S. territory
A) the end of slavery
What was the supreme court’s record in segregation cases in the years before brown v. board of education?
A) the court overturned forms of segregation, using the separate but equal rule on factual grounds
B) the court had struck down forms of segregation, but by using the commerce clause, not the fourteenth amendment.
C) the court had already struck down separate but equal as a principle before brown
D) there had been no major challenges to segregation before brown
A) the court overturned forms of segregation, using the separate but equal rule on factual grounds
