test 2 Flashcards
. Although the two concepts are often used interchangeably, the difference between civil liberties and civil rights is which of the following:
civil liberties are the Constitution’s protections “from” government power; civil rights are the Constitution’s protections provided “by” government power
The effort to secure civil rights for African Americans rested on which of the following:
configuring politics to allow society’s competing interests to check one another
Madison, who recognized that people act most forcefully when they have a stake in the outcome, believed tyranny could best be avoided by which of the following
empowering every faction to look out for its own interests
Between 1807 and 1819, slavery was a side-issue in politics only because of which of the following
the northern and southern states carefully maintained regional balance in the Senate by equally matching slave states’ and free states’ entry into the Union
In the antebellum South, white majorities enlisted state authority to preserve slavery, aided by their agents in the Senate, who did which of the following, as Madison warned
they succeeded in frustrating national action
After Lincoln was elected, for the first time in American history which of the following was true
the president and a majority of both houses of Congress were aligned against slavery’s extension
For most states, freeing slaves and granting slaves full-fledged citizenship were two different things and
granting slaves full-fledged citizenship was considered radical even by abolitionists
The Fourteenth Amendment, as an integral part of Reconstruction, was intended to serve two constituencies–first, African Americans in the South, and second
the Republican majority in Washington, D.C.
Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment reaffirms the constitutional prescription of apportioning seats in the House or Representatives according to a state’s population but makes the following exception:
if black males are not allowed to vote in federal and state elections, the number of allocated seats would be reduced proportionally
It is evident that Reconstruction was driven by narrow partisan purposes for which of the following reasons
all the freed slaves got from Congress was the ballot
The commitment of northern Republicans to Reconstruction in the South waned after which of the following
an economic recession led to many Republican losses in the 1874 election
The 1965 Voting Rights Act authorized the Justice Department, under certain circumstances, to send federal officers into communities to directly register voters. This policy is which of the following
perfectly consistent with Madison’s proposed national veto over objectionable state laws
The Johnson administration’s high-profile sponsorship of civil rights laws set the stage for civil rights to do which of the following:
to emerge as a major campaign issue in the 1964 presidential election
The difference between de facto segregation and de jure segregation is which of the following
de facto segregation is mandated by law; de jure segregation is not mandated by law
Early feminists called themselves “suffragists” because of which of the following
one important issue for them was campaigning for the vote
convened an abolitionist society meeting in his home and invited delegates to the Constitutional Convention to attend
Benjamin Franklin
Between 1882 and 1950, 4,729 lynchings were reported in the United States. African Americans were the victims of these lynchings in which portion of these cases
about three-quarters of the cases
Congress passed a law that ended the importation of slaves in 1807 for which of the following reasons
the Constitution’s prohibition against the federal government’s regulation of the slave trade was about to expire
A small but persistent abolitionist movement before and into the Civil War forced the nation to do which of the following
face the discrepancy between its creed, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” and the enslavement of 10 percent of its population
Whereas Madison viewed competing ambitions as performing a limited but vital service of neutralizing politicians who might be inclined to serve themselves more than their constiuencies, the history of civil rights portrays these same vote-seeking politicians as
transforming moral justice into public policy
Wilmot, Lincoln, and Johnson all assembled coalitions of self-interested constituencies behind
policies that have rapidly evolved to secure the civil rights of all Americans
Which of the following was the rationale behind the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which matched Missouri’s entry into the Union as a slave state with Maine’s entry into the Union as a free state
the parties compromised so the balance in the Senate between free and slave states would be maintained
In 1846, David Wilmot, a Democratic representative from Pennsylvania, sought to ban slavery in the newly acquired territories for which of the following reasons
because the presence of slaves as free labor depressed wages for white workers
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 forced law enforcement authorities
in both the North and the South to act as slaveholders’ agents in seizing and returning their “property
When was the first time in American history that the president and a majority in both the House and the Senate were opposed to the extension of slavery into the new territories
not until the election of Abraham Lincoln and a commanding majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives, along with a Republican alliance with splinter parties in the Senate
Which of the following had occurred by June of 1861
eleven states had left the Union and formed a new confederation-style government
. In the five year period from 1865 to 1870, slaves were emancipated, granted citizenship, and guaranteed the right to vote. However, which of the following was also true
only a handful of Union states gave African American citizens equal access to the ballot box
Shortly after the Civil War, southern legislators enacted laws to keep former slaves from voting. These laws were called which of the following
black codes
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution provides in part that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without the due process of law,
deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
The First Reconstruction Act of 1867 disbanded the governments of the southern states and replaced them with which of the following
five military districts headed by generals and administered by more than twenty thousand troops
The purpose of Reconstruction can best be characterized as which of the following
a massive and successful social and economic reconstruction of the South
Jim Crow laws” were which of the following
laws adopted throughout the South to disenfranchise black citizens and to institutionalize segregation
The white primary, which excluded African Americans from voting in the primary, effectively disenfranchised African Americans because of which of the following reasons
the South was solidly Democratic, so winning the Democratic primary was the same as winning the election
The poll tax, literacy tests, and grandfather clause were all mechanisms by which
African Americans were deprived of the right to vote
The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka is most notable for which of the following reasons
it struck down the separate but equal doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson
After Brown v. Board of Topeka was decided in 1954, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957 with the help of which of the following
U.S. Army troops sent by President Dwight Eisenhower
. Rosa Parks launched the Montgomery bus boycott in December of 1955 by doing which of the following
refusing to surrender her seat to a white person and move to the back of a city bus as required by law
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spearheaded demonstrations throughout the South through his organization, which was called
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which of the following happened
both voter registration and election to office increased dramatically for African Americans
. Affirmative action refers to a policy that does which of the following
gives special consideration to minorities in their selection for employment and education where employers or government agencies have practiced discrimination in the past
The 1970 extension of the Voting Rights Act required which of the following with regard to ballots
ballots be available in Spanish where at least 5 percent of the population is Hispanic
Growing numbers and a concentrated residential pattern for Hispanics mean which of the following
politicians will find they can ill afford to ignore this constituency
In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the Supreme Court ruled state antisodomy laws were unconstitutional, citing which of the following
the court in so doing cited individual privacy protections
The phrase “hate crime designation” refers to which of the following
those provisions of the criminal code that make it illegal, or enhance penalties for, violence directed against individuals, property, or organizations solely because of the victim’s race, gender, national origin, or sexual orientation
In both 2008 and 2010, the American electorate
delivered a powerful message of discontent with the status quo
Pluralist politics is all about building coaltitions, which means
getting people to agree to an action even in the absence of agreement about the purpose of the action
When James Madison defended the Constitution in Federalist 10, he adopted the term “republic” to
emphasize the distinction between democracy as the eighteenth century Americans saw it and the proposed new system
James Madison characterized the proposed new system of representative democracy as a “republic,” which he distinguished from a democracy due to
the delegation of the government to a small number of people elected by the rest, and the greater number of people and sphere of the country over which the government may be extended
Elections work to ameliorate the problem of delegation of authority in which of the following ways
all of the above
Every expansion of suffrage since the adoption of the Constitution has had to do which of the following
overcome both philosophical objections and mundane calculations of political advantage
The assorted demographic and institutional influences on voting produce an electorate
in which wealthy, well-educated, older white people are overrepresented and poor, uneducated, young, and nonwhite people are underrepresented
Systematic evidence suggests that the variations in policy preferences between voters and nonvoters are
. not very different and few elections would have different outcomes even if every eligible voter voted
When the goals and tactics of political entrepreneurs change
the level of electoral participation changes because turnout is directly affected by these activities
Casting a vote is making a prediction about the future
that electing one candidate will produce a better outcome in some relevant sense than electing another candidate
The most important information shortcut voters use to make predictions is
advertisements about specific policy proposals
Party labels provide cues for performance voting so voters can easily
vote for the in-party when the voter thinks the government is doing well and vote for the out-party when the voter thinks the government is doing badly
. Issue voting is
made easier by party labels because the typical positions of Republicans and Democrats differ in predictable ways on many issues
. One political consultant explained this campaign tactic by saying: “People say they hate _________________. But [this tactic] works. They hate it and they remember it
negative campaigning
Some of the staples of political advertising are
all of the above
A highly competitive election for the House of Representatives is defined as a race in which the winner received
55 percent or less of the major-party vote
Broadly speaking, campaign finance operates through two parallel systems
money given directly to candidates, which is regulated, and money spent outside of the candidate’s campaign, which generally is unregulated
The ultimate barrier to a more egalitarian campaign finance system is
the First Amendment to the Constitution as it is currently interpreted by the Supreme Court
When candidates form relatively stable coalitions with other would-be leaders–that is, combine into political parties–the following is true
they narrow voter choices to a manageable number and simplify voters’ choices across offices and over time
the 2008 presidential election
gave Democrats full control of the federal government for the first time since 1994
Overall, large increases in the turn-out in the presidential elections of 2004 and 2008 is attributable to
intensive registration campaigns
Which of the following is true about the practices of selecting leaders by ballot and limiting suffrage
these arrived with the settlers from England, and many of the suffrage restrictions survived the Revolution
When was universal suffrage for white men achieved
in the 1840s, in the wake of the triumph of Jacksonian democracy
Universal suffrage for women was achieved
in 1920 with the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment
The Civil War amendments did which of the following
did not effectively extend the vote to African Americans
