Exam 16: Civil Rights

In which amendment is the due process clause found?

In Smith v.Allwright the Supreme Court deemed white primaries unconstitutional.

What are we referring to when we speak of rights of all people to dignity and worth?

Literacy tests and poll taxes were mechanisms to keep what minority from voting?

Which amendment prohibits state governments from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law?

Civil rights are rights of all people to be free from irrational discrimination such as that based on race, religion, gender, or ethnic origin.

A(n) ________ is a tract of land given to the Native American tribal nations by treaty.

Which of the following is a factor that underlies inequality?

Affirmative action is designed to discourage help to people who have been disadvantaged because they belong to a certain group.

By interpretation, what amendment forbids the national government to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws?

The term "Asian American" describes approximately 10 million people from many different countries and ethnic backgrounds.

The equal protection clause only applies to the actions of

Age is a suspect classification.

New York was the first state to allow women the right to vote.

Half of all Hispanic Americans live in the two U.S.states of

Women won the right to vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Rights that are explicitly or implicitly guaranteed by the Constitution are referred to as

Although the equal protection clause only applies to states, the federal government interprets the due process clause as imposing the same restraints on the national government as the equal protection clause imposes on states.

The Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka decision encouraged the women's movement to continue its struggle for civil rights.

Overt discrimination against the Japanese in the early part of this century included