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LINEBERRY CHAPTER 5 - CIVIL RIGHTS
Multiple Choice
1) Affirmative action is a policy in which
a) strict quotas limit the number of blacks and
women who can fill certain positions.
b) The government enforces laws guaranteeing
equal opportunity.
c) The least advanced among minorities and
women are given job training.
d) Special consideration is given to traditionally
disadvantaged groups.
2) Today, the key dimensions of inequality in America
on which debate about equality centers is
a) race and gender b) race and age
c) gender and disability d) all of the above
3) The original Constitution
a) contained implications for equality in that the
guaranteed rights were not denied to any group
b) denied certain rights to particular groups, such
as blacks, because of the influence of slavery.
c) Guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
d) Left the issue of equality up to the states.
4) Equal protection of the laws
a) means that states had to make their laws
promote equality among persons.
b) Provided a standard for constitutional
interpretation.
c) Emphasized that laws had to provide equivalent
protection to all people.
d) Was guaranteed in the original Constitution.
5) Throughout its political history, the principal
minority group in the United States has been
a) American Indians b) Hispanic Americans
c) Black Americans d) All of the above
6) The immediate reaction to Brown v. Board of
Education was
a) the desegregation of public schools in the
South.
b) The busing of students to achieve racially
balanced schools.
c) The closing of schools in Topeka, Kansas
d) A threat to close public schools and increased
enrollment in private schools by whites in the
South
7) The case of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg
County Schools
a) Forbade segregation in such public facilities as
hotels and restaurants.
b) Expanded the right to vote
c) Permitted judges to end school segregation
through busing
d) Prohibited busing for school integration
8) Key strategies of the Civil Rights Movement
included
a) sit-ins b) marches.
c) civil disobedience. d) all of the above
9) By the 1970's
a) most white Americans were ambivalent to the
goals of racial equality.
b) Public opinion towards integration had changed
very little since the 1950's
c) An overwhelming majority of white Americans
supported the goals of integration.
d) The civil rights movement had alienated an
overwhelming majority of white Americans.
10) Blacks will soon be displaced as the largest minority
group in the United States by
a) Asian Americans b) American Indians
c) Jewish Americans d) Hispanic Americans
11) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights
Act of 1965.
a) applied only to the southern states
b) protected the rights of blacks only
c) protected the rights of all minorities
d) did not apply to American Indians
12) Public policy toward women has been dominated by
the principle of
a) equality b) protectionism
c) feminism d) affirmative action
13) The main goal of traditional public policy toward
women was to
a) Guarantee women such political rights as
voting.
b) Protect women's rights to equal pay and equal
job opportunities
c) Maintain the role of women as homemakers
d) Provide women greater access to public office
14) The conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment
centered on the issue of whether women should
a) be allowed to campaign for public office
b) have the right to attend traditionally male
schools
c) receive equal pay for equal work
d) sacrifice traditional protections for the sake of
equality
15) 'Comparable worth' refers to the issue of
a) equal voting rights and access to public office
for women
b) paying men and women equivalent salaries for
jobs requiring similar skills
c) government subsidization of women who
choose to work at home
d) all of the above
16) The Civil Rights and Women's Equity in
Employment Act of 1991
a) banned sex discrimination in employment
b) forbade sex discrimination in federally
subsidized education programs
c) shifted the burden of proof in justifying hiring
and promotion practices to employers
d) made it illegal for employers to exclude
pregnancy and childbirth from their healthbenefits plans
17) Which of the following was not an effect of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965?
a) the registration of many southern black voters
b) the use of white primaries
c) the election of more black officials
d) the intervention of federal election registrars
18) The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
a) strengthened previous protections against
discrimination against the disabled
b) required employers and public facilities to make
reasonable accommodations
c) prohibited employment discrimination against
the disabled
d) all of the above
19) The Supreme Court held that an admissions quota
for particular groups were illegal in
a) United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO v
Weber
b) Fullilove v Klutznick
c) Regents of the University of California v Bakke
d) Wygart v Jackson Board of Education
20) Opposition to affirmative action is especially strong
when people view it as
a) affecting only African Americans
b) a form of separate-but-equal
c) reverse discrimination
d) discriminating against women
True or False: There are FOUR false statements
21) Neither the word "equality" nor the idea of equality
appears in the original Constitution.
22) The only reference to the idea of equality in the
entire constitution are the words "equal protection of
the laws."
23) The era of racial segregation began to end at the turn
of the century after Plessy v Ferguson.
24) Brown v Board of Education brought a rapid end to
school segregation in the south.
25) The civil rights movement began in 1955 when Rosa
Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white
man.
26) The 1954 Brown v Board of Education case was the
beginning of a string of Supreme Court decisions
holding various forms of discrimination
unconstitutional.
27) To exclude blacks from voting, most southern states
required a poll tax levied on the right to vote.
28) The Voting Rights Act of 1965 had very little
impact on politics in the South as most blacks were
apathetic about voting.
29) American Indians did not become citizens of the US
until 1924.
30) The only part of the population which has no
constitutional protection against discrimination is
white males under the age of 40.
31) A college admissions policy in which students were
selected strictly on the basis of merit is an example
of affirmative action.
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32) In __________________________________________, the Court ruled that federal programs that classify people by
race are constitutional only if they are "narrowly tailored" to accomplish a "compelling governmental interest."
33) ___________________ is the name for policies that give special consideration to traditionally disadvantaged groups to
make up for past discrimination.
34) The boldest Supreme court decision in defense of slavery was __________________________.
35) ____________________________ consists of public policies and social customs requiring the separation of specific
groups in schools, housing and other activities.
36) In __________________________________________, the Supreme Court upheld the right of judges to order school
busing in both north and south.
37) The ________________________________ made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and
restaurants illegal.
38) In the early Republic, ____________________ was limited to a handful of the population, mostly property-holding
white males.
39) In states requiring a literacy test of all prospective voters, the _______________________________ exempted people
whose grandfathers were eligible to vote in 1860.
40) In _________________________________ the Supreme Court upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during
WWII as constitutional.
41) The ________________________ guarantees women the right to vote.
42) The ________________________ was a proposed addition to the Constitution that said "equality of rights under the
law shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by an state on account of sex."
43) __________________________ is the view that women's work is just as valuable as men's work and should be equally
compensated.
44) _______________________ and _______________________ are two recent entrants in the civil rights policy game.
45) ___________________________ required employers and public facilities to make reasonable accommodations and
prohibited employment discrimination against the disabled.
Chapter 5 - Civil Rights
1)D
2)D
3)A
4)C
15)B
16)C
17)B
18)D
5)C
19)C
6)D
20)C
7)C
False statements - 23, 24, 28, 31
32) AdarandvPena
33) Affirm. Action
34) Dred Scott
35) Segregation
36) Swann v Char.
37) Civil RtsAct ‘64
38) suffrage
39) grandfather clause
40) Korematsu v US
41) 19th Amend.
42) Equal Rights Amendment
43) Comparable worth
44) older Americans and the disabled
45) Americans w/Disabilities Act
8)D
9)C
10)D
11)C
12)B
13)C
14)D
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
46) Fourteenth Amendment and equal protection of the laws
47) Civil Rights Act of 1964, Americans with Disabilities Act 1990, and Voting Rights Act 1965
48) poll taxes and white primaries
49) Reed v Reed and Craig v Boren
50) affirmative action, Bakke decision, Adarand v Pena
51) de jure segregation and de facto segregation