Question 1

Homer Plessy attempted to challenge Louisiana's racial segregation policies by

Accepted Answer

A) refusing to move from a "whites-only" Louisiana train car. 
B) sitting in at a "whites-only" restaurant. 
C) refusing to sit at the back of a New Orleans streetcar. 
D) sitting on the ground floor of a public theater, instead of in the balcony. 
E) sending his daughter for treatment to a superior "whites-only" hospital. 
A) refusing to move from a "whites-only" Louisiana train car. 
B) sitting in at a "whites-only" restaurant. 
C) refusing to sit at the back of a New Orleans streetcar. 
D) sitting on the ground floor of a public theater, instead of in the balcony. 
E) sending his daughter for treatment to a superior "whites-only" hospital. A

Question 2

Recent new justices on the Supreme Court and decisions such as Community Schools v.Seattle School District No.1 suggest

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A) the constitutionality of affirmative action programs remains secure. 
B) there is now only a 5-4 margin of support in favor of affirmative action. 
C) the Supreme Court has engaged in a series of increasingly complicated tests and evaluations of affirmative action programs. 
D) the Supreme Court continues to uphold affirmative action in the sphere of education, but to reject it elsewhere. 
E) the court has moved in a decidedly more conservative direction and appears willing to strike down many affirmative action programs. 
A) the constitutionality of affirmative action programs remains secure. 
B) there is now only a 5-4 margin of support in favor of affirmative action. 
C) the Supreme Court has engaged in a series of increasingly complicated tests and evaluations of affirmative action programs. 
D) the Supreme Court continues to uphold affirmative action in the sphere of education, but to reject it elsewhere. 
E) the court has moved in a decidedly more conservative direction and appears willing to strike down many affirmative action programs. E

Question 3

Abigail Fisher brought her lawsuit against the University of Texas arguing that the inclusion of race in university admissions violates

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A) the freedom to assemble clause of the First Amendment. 
B) the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 
C) the Nineteenth Amendment. 
D) the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment. 
E) the freedom to assemble clause of the First Amendment and the Nineteenth Amendment. 
A) the freedom to assemble clause of the First Amendment. 
B) the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 
C) the Nineteenth Amendment. 
D) the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment. 
E) the freedom to assemble clause of the First Amendment and the Nineteenth Amendment. B

Question 4

What women's rights activist first persuaded a U.S.California senator to introduce a constitutional amendment calling for the right of women to vote?

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A) Elizabeth Blackwell 
B) Betty Friedan 
C) Carrie Nation 
D) Susan B. Anthony 
E) Eleanor Roosevelt 
A) Elizabeth Blackwell 
B) Betty Friedan 
C) Carrie Nation 
D) Susan B. Anthony 
E) Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 5

Affirmative action is the

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A) commitment by the federal government to require state governments to eliminate all forms of discrimination within their boundaries. 
B) commitment first introduced in the California legislature to ensure equal employment opportunities for African Americans. 
C) commitment by a business, employer, school, or other public or private institution to expand opportunities for women, African and Hispanic Americans, and members of other minority groups. 
D) decision by a court in Hawaii to affirm the right of gays and lesbians to marry. 
E) specific allowance of a certain number of positions to applicants. 
A) commitment by the federal government to require state governments to eliminate all forms of discrimination within their boundaries. 
B) commitment first introduced in the California legislature to ensure equal employment opportunities for African Americans. 
C) commitment by a business, employer, school, or other public or private institution to expand opportunities for women, African and Hispanic Americans, and members of other minority groups. 
D) decision by a court in Hawaii to affirm the right of gays and lesbians to marry. 
E) specific allowance of a certain number of positions to applicants.

Question 6

One unintended result of the immigration legislation signed by President Johnson in 1965 was "chain migration," under which​

Accepted Answer

A) ​more persons than anticipated from Africa and Asia with specified technical skills or education applied to immigrate. 
B) ​some immigrants would reapply for residence repeatedly, making it hard to send them back to their home countries when their visas expired. 
C) ​people from certain regions of foreign countries uncovered loopholes in the law allowing many more people than expected from certain villages, for example, to immigrate. 
D) ​people repeatedly applied for immigration from different countries until they were successful, using fraudulent documentation that the U.S. immigration system was ill-prepared to evaluate. 
E) ​immigrants would petition for their relatives to come to the United States. 
A) ​more persons than anticipated from Africa and Asia with specified technical skills or education applied to immigrate. 
B) ​some immigrants would reapply for residence repeatedly, making it hard to send them back to their home countries when their visas expired. 
C) ​people from certain regions of foreign countries uncovered loopholes in the law allowing many more people than expected from certain villages, for example, to immigrate. 
D) ​people repeatedly applied for immigration from different countries until they were successful, using fraudulent documentation that the U.S. immigration system was ill-prepared to evaluate. 
E) ​immigrants would petition for their relatives to come to the United States.

Question 7

Why did the women's suffrage movement aim at a constitutional amendment?

Accepted Answer

A) State legislatures consistently opposed efforts to grant the right to vote to women. 
B) The Supreme Court ruled against efforts to apply the Fourteenth Amendment to women. 
C) Ordinary legislation that Congress had passed had proved ineffective. 
D) The experience of African Americans showed that only a constitutional amendment could quickly and effectively guarantee the right to vote. 
E) An amendment was perceived as the easiest path to equal rights. 
A) State legislatures consistently opposed efforts to grant the right to vote to women. 
B) The Supreme Court ruled against efforts to apply the Fourteenth Amendment to women. 
C) Ordinary legislation that Congress had passed had proved ineffective. 
D) The experience of African Americans showed that only a constitutional amendment could quickly and effectively guarantee the right to vote. 
E) An amendment was perceived as the easiest path to equal rights.

Question 8

Which of the following is not one of the reasons for failure of the Equal Rights Amendment?

Accepted Answer

A) Opponents to the ERA organized state-based campaigns. 
B) ERA proponents exaggerated the amendment's effect. 
C) Opposition grew stronger from women who wanted to maintain their traditional role in society. 
D) ERA proponents believed they didn't need to actively campaign for such an obviously fair amendment. 
E) All of the above are reasons for the failure of the ERA. 
A) Opponents to the ERA organized state-based campaigns. 
B) ERA proponents exaggerated the amendment's effect. 
C) Opposition grew stronger from women who wanted to maintain their traditional role in society. 
D) ERA proponents believed they didn't need to actively campaign for such an obviously fair amendment. 
E) All of the above are reasons for the failure of the ERA.

Question 9

_________________ is the idea that employers should be required to pay equal wages to men and women in the same or similar jobs.​

Accepted Answer

A) ​Wage equality 
B) ​Wage recognition 
C) ​Pay equalization 
D) ​Women's Working Wages 
E) ​Comparable worth 
A) ​Wage equality 
B) ​Wage recognition 
C) ​Pay equalization 
D) ​Women's Working Wages 
E) ​Comparable worth

Question 10

Black citizens in Birmingham,Alabama achieved desegregation of the municipal transit system through​

Accepted Answer

A) ​a series of sit-ins. 
B) ​a bus boycott. 
C) ​slashing tires of buses. 
D) civil disobedience.​ 
E) ​lobbying the city council. 
A) ​a series of sit-ins. 
B) ​a bus boycott. 
C) ​slashing tires of buses. 
D) civil disobedience.​ 
E) ​lobbying the city council.

Question 11

Preferential policies are

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A) seldom explicitly legislated. 
B) strictly prohibited by the Constitution. 
C) usually the result of administrative regulations, judicial rulings, and private sector initiatives. 
D) supported by most Americans. 
E) seldom explicitly legislated and usually the result of administrative regulations, judicial rulings, and private sector initiatives. 
A) seldom explicitly legislated. 
B) strictly prohibited by the Constitution. 
C) usually the result of administrative regulations, judicial rulings, and private sector initiatives. 
D) supported by most Americans. 
E) seldom explicitly legislated and usually the result of administrative regulations, judicial rulings, and private sector initiatives.

Question 12

Allan Bakke's application to the University of California Medical School at Davis was rejected at least in part because he

Accepted Answer

A) was an African American. 
B) was white. 
C) was clearly not qualified based on his transcripts and test scores. 
D) applied to the wrong program. 
E) missed critical deadlines. 
A) was an African American. 
B) was white. 
C) was clearly not qualified based on his transcripts and test scores. 
D) applied to the wrong program. 
E) missed critical deadlines.

Question 13

Describe the reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v.Board of Education that the separate but equal doctrine was unconstitutional in the field of public education.

Accepted Answer

The Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. B

Question 14

The central crucible of the black civil rights movement were black

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A) churches. 
B) public school teachers. 
C) small business owners. 
D) activists who bused in from the North and West. 
E) college students. 
A) churches. 
B) public school teachers. 
C) small business owners. 
D) activists who bused in from the North and West. 
E) college students.

Question 15

Which of the following provisions of the strict 2010 Arizona immigration law was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012?

Accepted Answer

A) Increased local enforcement of federal immigration law. 
B) Requiring police to determine a person's immigration status if reasonable suspicion exists that the person is in the country illegally. 
C) Making it illegal to shelter, hire, or transport illegal aliens in Arizona. 
D) Criminalizing being an alien in Arizona without legal documents. 
E) All of these choices are true. 
A) Increased local enforcement of federal immigration law. 
B) Requiring police to determine a person's immigration status if reasonable suspicion exists that the person is in the country illegally. 
C) Making it illegal to shelter, hire, or transport illegal aliens in Arizona. 
D) Criminalizing being an alien in Arizona without legal documents. 
E) All of these choices are true.

Question 16

Present the facts of the U.S.Supreme Court case Regents of the University of California v.Bakke,and describe the basis upon which affirmative action programs would be permissible.

Accepted Answer

Regents of the University of California

Question 17

The __________ Amendment provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States,or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Accepted Answer

A) Fourteenth 
B) Thirteenth 
C) Eleventh 
D) Fifteenth 
E) Third 
A) Fourteenth 
B) Thirteenth 
C) Eleventh 
D) Fifteenth 
E) Third

Question 18

Discrimination against persons or groups that is harmful and is based on animus is​ __________ discrimination.

Accepted Answer

A) ​invidious 
B) ​reverse 
C) ​benign 
D) ​civil 
E) ​criminal 
A) ​invidious 
B) ​reverse 
C) ​benign 
D) ​civil 
E) ​criminal

Question 19

The U.S.Supreme Court in 2003 considered policies _________ in Michigan that were based on racial preference.

Accepted Answer

A) at a law school and undergraduate school 
B) at a medical school 
C) of a professional football team 
D) at a private high school 
E) in hiring by the state legislature 
A) at a law school and undergraduate school 
B) at a medical school 
C) of a professional football team 
D) at a private high school 
E) in hiring by the state legislature

Question 20

In Brown v.Board of Education II,the Supreme Court ordered that public school systems must desegregate

Accepted Answer

A) "at the discretion of the local school district." 
B) "without further ado." 
C) "immediately." 
D) "with all deliberate speed." 
E) "or face closure." 
A) "at the discretion of the local school district." 
B) "without further ado." 
C) "immediately." 
D) "with all deliberate speed." 
E) "or face closure."

Homer Plessy attempted to challenge Louisiana's racial segregation policies by

Recent new justices on the Supreme Court and decisions such as Community Schools v.Seattle School District No.1 suggest

Abigail Fisher brought her lawsuit against the University of Texas arguing that the inclusion of race in university admissions violates

What women's rights activist first persuaded a U.S.California senator to introduce a constitutional amendment calling for the right of women to vote?

Affirmative action is the

One unintended result of the immigration legislation signed by President Johnson in 1965 was "chain migration," under which

Why did the women's suffrage movement aim at a constitutional amendment?

Which of the following is not one of the reasons for failure of the Equal Rights Amendment?

_________________ is the idea that employers should be required to pay equal wages to men and women in the same or similar jobs.

Black citizens in Birmingham,Alabama achieved desegregation of the municipal transit system through

Preferential policies are

Allan Bakke's application to the University of California Medical School at Davis was rejected at least in part because he

Describe the reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v.Board of Education that the separate but equal doctrine was unconstitutional in the field of public education.

The central crucible of the black civil rights movement were black

Which of the following provisions of the strict 2010 Arizona immigration law was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012?

Present the facts of the U.S.Supreme Court case Regents of the University of California v.Bakke,and describe the basis upon which affirmative action programs would be permissible.

The __________ Amendment provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States,or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Discrimination against persons or groups that is harmful and is based on animus is __________ discrimination.

The U.S.Supreme Court in 2003 considered policies _________ in Michigan that were based on racial preference.

In Brown v.Board of Education II,the Supreme Court ordered that public school systems must desegregate

Freedom, Order, or Equality

Majoritarian or Pluralist Democracy

The Constitution

Federalism

Public Opinion and Political Socialization

The Media

Participation and Voting

Political Parties

Nominations, Elections, and Campaigns

Interest Groups

Congress

The Presidency

The Bureaucracy

The Courts

Order and Civil Liberties

Economic Policy

Policymaking and Domestic Policy

Filters

Exam 16: Equality and Civil Rights

Homer Plessy attempted to challenge Louisiana's racial segregation policies by

Recent new justices on the Supreme Court and decisions such as Community Schools v.Seattle School District No.1 suggest

Abigail Fisher brought her lawsuit against the University of Texas arguing that the inclusion of race in university admissions violates

What women's rights activist first persuaded a U.S.California senator to introduce a constitutional amendment calling for the right of women to vote?

Affirmative action is the

One unintended result of the immigration legislation signed by President Johnson in 1965 was "chain migration," under which​

Why did the women's suffrage movement aim at a constitutional amendment?

Which of the following is not one of the reasons for failure of the Equal Rights Amendment?

_________________ is the idea that employers should be required to pay equal wages to men and women in the same or similar jobs.​

Black citizens in Birmingham,Alabama achieved desegregation of the municipal transit system through​

Preferential policies are

Allan Bakke's application to the University of California Medical School at Davis was rejected at least in part because he

Describe the reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v.Board of Education that the separate but equal doctrine was unconstitutional in the field of public education.

The central crucible of the black civil rights movement were black

Which of the following provisions of the strict 2010 Arizona immigration law was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012?

Present the facts of the U.S.Supreme Court case Regents of the University of California v.Bakke,and describe the basis upon which affirmative action programs would be permissible.

The __________ Amendment provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States,or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Discrimination against persons or groups that is harmful and is based on animus is​ __________ discrimination.

The U.S.Supreme Court in 2003 considered policies _________ in Michigan that were based on racial preference.

In Brown v.Board of Education II,the Supreme Court ordered that public school systems must desegregate

Freedom, Order, or Equality

Majoritarian or Pluralist Democracy

The Constitution

Federalism

Public Opinion and Political Socialization

The Media

Participation and Voting

Political Parties

Nominations, Elections, and Campaigns

Interest Groups

Congress

The Presidency

The Bureaucracy

The Courts

Order and Civil Liberties

Economic Policy

Policymaking and Domestic Policy

Filters

One unintended result of the immigration legislation signed by President Johnson in 1965 was "chain migration," under which

_________________ is the idea that employers should be required to pay equal wages to men and women in the same or similar jobs.

Black citizens in Birmingham,Alabama achieved desegregation of the municipal transit system through

Discrimination against persons or groups that is harmful and is based on animus is __________ discrimination.