Exam 15: Politics and Civil Rights

The rights of individuals that government must protect from discriminatory treatment on the basis of classifications such as race,gender,and ethnicity are __________.

According to Figure 15.5,women typically earn about eighty percent of what men earn.

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.championed the use of nonviolent resistance/civil disobedience to advance civil rights.

According to the "Who's Getting What?" feature box,which event triggered the modern gay rights movement?

If you thought you were getting an inferior public education because of your ethnicity,which part of the Constitution would you rely on most heavily to justify your case?

The __________ Amendment guarantees African Americans the right to vote.

Of the following people,who could serve in the military under the "Don't Ask,Don't Tell" policy?

Gender classifications are evaluated by the Supreme Court using the strict scrutiny standard to ensure that it is necessary to accomplish a permissible state goal and is the least restrictive way to reach that goal.

What did Jim Crow laws mandate?

What was the Supreme Court's justification for overturning the separate-but-equal doctrine?

The Supreme Court has affirmed the right of consenting adults to engage in private sexual activity.

The Equal Rights Amendment __________.

What was the objective of the women's suffrage movement?

What provision of the Fourteenth Amendment serves as a cornerstone of our understanding of civil rights?

If a group of people were systematically discriminated against in the past,which of the following would constitute an affirmative action policy designed as a remedy to help the members of this group overcome the legacy of discrimination?

Reconstruction was the era of racial healing that followed the civil rights movement.

The constitutionality of a law establishing a public elementary school open only to African American students from poor neighborhoods would be determined by the Supreme Court's application of the __________ standard of review.

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.insisted that civil disobedience aimed at ending discrimination in the South should be conducted __________.

The Thirteenth Amendment bans slavery.When was it passed?

In Plessy v.Ferguson,the Supreme Court overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine that the Court had established in Brown v.Board of Education.