Exam 5: Civil Rights

Laws that potentially interfere with fundamental rights or classify people based on race have to pass which test employed by the courts?

Today, there are __________ Native Americans living in the United States.

African American leader Malcolm X

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned as unconstitutional __________, but has not overturned ___________.

When reaching the age of majority

The amending of the Constitution to include an Equal Rights Amendment for women

The white primary in southern states allowed

The riot at Stonewall Inn that began the modern movement for equality for gay males and lesbians was sparked by

How have courts and legislative bodies at both the federal and the state level attempted to address issues concerning the rights and status of homosexuals?

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court

Compared to other racial minorities, Asian Americans are

In cases involving juveniles, courts have

The charge that some affirmative action programs discriminate against non-minorities is called

Since 1999, the number of states allowing same-sex marriages has _________, through actions by _________.

After the Civil War, civil rights legislation was passed by Congress

In the Bakke case, the Supreme Court ruled that

A major consequence of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was

Explain the consequences of a policy that required the deportation of all unauthorized immigrants.

In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court held that

Explain the significance of the constitutional amendments enacted in the five years following the end of the Civil War.