Unit 5

Question 1

Civil rights

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Fourteenth amendment

Answer 2

No state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens. Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of laws.

Question 3

No state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens. Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of laws.

Answer 3

Fourteenth amendment

Question 4

Equal protection clause

Answer 4

Part of the fourteenth amendment emphasizing that laws myst provide equivalent “protection” to all people

Question 5

Part of the fourteenth amendment emphasizing that laws myst provide equivalent “protection” to all people

Answer 5

Equal protection clause

Question 6

Standards of review

Answer 6

Used to determine if a law or regulation is permissive or violated the equal protection clause

Question 7

Used to determine if a law or regulation is permissive or violated the equal protection clause

Answer 7

Standards of review

Question 8

Standard of review for race & ethnicity

Answer 8

Strict scrutiny/inherently suspect

Question 9

Standard of review for gender

Answer 9

Intermediate scrutiny

Question 10

Standard of review for other (age, wealth, etc.)

Answer 10

Reasonableness

Question 11

What is the basis of classification for strict scrutiny

Answer 11

Race & ethnicity

Question 12

What is the basis of classification for intermediate scrutiny

Answer 12

Gender

Question 13

What is the basis of classification for reasonableness

Answer 13

Age, wealth, etc.

Question 14

Thirteenth amendment

Answer 14

Forbade slavery & involuntary servitude

Question 15

Amendment that forbade slavery & involuntary servitude

Answer 15

Thirteenth amendment

Question 16

Brown v. Board of education

Answer 16

School segregation is unconstitutional because it violates the fourteenth amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. End of legal segregation.

Question 17

Ruled that school segregation is unconstitutional because it violates the fourteenth amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. End of legal segregation.

Answer 17

Brown v. Board of education

Question 18

Civil rights act of 1964

Answer 18

Law making racial discrimination on public accommodation illegal. It forbade many forms of job discrimination. It also strengthened voting rights.

Question 19

Law making racial discrimination on public accommodation illegal. It forbade many forms of job discrimination. It also strengthened voting rights.

Answer 19

Civil rights act of 1964

Question 20

Suffrage extended to African Americans by which amendment

Answer 20

15th

Question 21

Suffrage extended to women by which amendment

Answer 21

19th

Question 22

Fifteenth amendment

Answer 22

Extended suffrage to African Americans

Question 23

Extended suffrage to African Americans

Answer 23

Fifteenth amendment

Question 24

Poll taxes

Answer 24

Smaller taxes levied on the right to vote. Poll taxes were used mostly by southern states to exclude African Americans from voting

Question 25

White primary

Answer 25

Primary elections from which African Americans were excluded. Deprived African Americans from a voice in the real contest. Was soon ruled to be unconstitutional.

Question 26

Primary elections from which African Americans were excluded. Deprived African Americans from a voice in the real contest. Was soon ruled to be unconstitutional.

Answer 26

White primary

Question 27

Twenty-fourth amendment

Answer 27

Declared poll taxes void from elections

Question 28

Declared poll taxes void from elections

Answer 28

Twenty-fourth amendment

Question 29

Voting rights act of 1965

Answer 29

Law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, many African Americans registered to vote, and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically

Question 30

Law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, many African Americans registered to vote, and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically

Answer 30

Voting rights act or 1965

Question 31

Nineteenth amendment

Answer 31

Guarantees women the right to vote

Question 32

Guarantees women the right to vote

Answer 32

Nineteenth amendment

Question 33

Equal rights amendment (ERA)

Answer 33

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex

Question 34

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex

Answer 34

Equal rights amendment (ERA)

Question 35

Americans with disabilities act of 1990 (ADA)

Answer 35

Required employees and public facilities to make “reasonable accommodations” for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against them in employment

Question 36

Required employees and public facilities to make “reasonable accommodations” for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against them in employment

Answer 36

Americans with disabilities act of 1990 (ADA)

Question 37

Affirmative action

Answer 37

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

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Affirmative action