Civil Rights Test

Question 1

Equal Protection Clause

Answer 1

Part of the 14th amendment, emphasizing that the laws must provide equivalent “protection” to all people.

Question 2

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 2

Supreme Court said that “seperate but equal” is constitutional when a black man tried to sit in a whites only seat on a train.

Question 3

Missouri Compromise

Answer 3

Missouri could be a slave state if northern territories were slave free (1820). This was invalidadted by Scott v Sandford (1857)

Question 4

Sweatt v Painter

Answer 4

(1950) “seperate but equal” was generally unacceptable for professional schools

Question 5

Smith v Allwright

Answer 5

(1944) White primaries are unconstitutional

Question 6

Brown v Board

Answer 6

(1954) “seperate but equal” is not constitutional (14th amendment)
started in Topeka, Kansas

Question 7

De Facto

Answer 7

Natural segregation

Question 8

De Jure

Answer 8

segregation laws

Question 9

Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg

Answer 9

(1971) Busing can be forced if previously a De Jure area

Question 10

Milliken v Bradley

Answer 10

(1974) Busing can’t be forced if previously a De Facto area

Question 11

Title IX

Answer 11

if you offer educational oppurtunities men, you have to offer it to women

Question 12

Seneca Falls

Answer 12

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, L. Mott, 1848

a meeting of women’s rights activists

Question 13

NAACP

Answer 13

W.E.B DuBois

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 14

Suffrage

Answer 14

right to vote

Question 15

NOW

Answer 15

National Organization for Women

Question 16

Earl Warren

Answer 16

Justice that wrote the decision of Brown v Board

Question 17

Orval Faubus

Answer 17

Governer of Arkansas, stopped Little Rock Nine for going to school

Question 18

Civil Rightd Act 1964 - Title VII

Answer 18

forbidding discrimination on any grounds (except gender)

Question 19

Voting Rights Act 1965

Answer 19

help end formal and inormal barriers to African American suffrage