Exam 16: Civil Rights: the Struggle for Political Equality

Despite the reversal in integration trends in the region, the school integration record of the South remains better than that of any other region of the country.

How was the "grandfather clause" used to keep African Americans from voting in the South?

In Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. (1993), the Supreme Court ruled that

Which of the following statements best reflects the current status of affirmative action programs?

Intermediate scrutiny

What was rendered meaningless by the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)?

The Seneca Falls Convention focused on

The great breakthrough for racial equality came in 1954. Describe the name and nature of the 1954 decision?

In ________, Chief Justice Taney claimed that the founders believed that blacks were so inferior to whites that they intended blacks never to be citizens nor even to possess rights that whites must respect.

The Partial-Birth Abortion Act

The Bill of Rights did not guarantee political equality, and only in the twentieth century

Over the course of the twentieth century, most of the rights and liberties of the Bill of Rights and the Civil War amendments were interpreted more narrowly to exclude all state and local laws.

The ________ was a device used by the southern states to prevent blacks from voting before the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which banned its use; usually involved interpretation of a section of the state constitution.

President Richard Nixon's Philadelphia Plan focused on

Civil Unions have been upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

While the issue of sexual harassment captures much media attention, its incidence is really quite low.

In 1857, the Supreme Court decided in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slavery was immoral and unconstitutional.

What impact did the Civil War amendments have on the civil rights of African Americans?

Affirmative action was first suggested as a policy change after during reconstruction.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?