Deck 5: Civil Rights

Question 1

Examples of state level challenges to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 include

A) Limits on early voting
B) Reducing the number of polling places
C) The splitting of black precincts
D) All of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

Anti-immigration impulses may be seen in relation to

A) Sanctuary cities
B) Dreamers
C) Puerto Rican statehood
D) All of the above

Answer 2

All of the above

Question 3

Social movement activity has increased on behalf of

A) Black Lives Matter
B) MeToo
C) Back the Blue
D) All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

Affirmative action is

A) Actions designed to help minorities over the effects of past discrimination
B) Actions designed to help minorities compete on an equal basis with the majority
C) Both a and b
D) Neither a nor b

Question 5

Civil rights are

A) The rights of all citizens to legal equality
B) The rights of all citizens to social equality
C) The rights of all citizens to economic equality
D) All of these

Question 6

Civil rights place a burden on the government to

A) Protect the freedom of all people
B) Protect just the rights of minorities
C) Protect just the rights of the majority
D) Protect the rights of disadvantaged

Question 7

The metaphor of the _____________ clarifies the distinction between civil liberties and civil rights.

A) Horse and cart
B) Apples and oranges
C) Cake and pie
D) Shield and sword

Question 8

Historically, both federal and state governments have tolerated unequal treatment of citizens based on characteristics such as

A) Race
B) Gender
C) Religion
D) All of the above

Question 9

One driving force behind the Twenty-Sixth Amendment was

A) World War I
B) World War II
C) The Korean War
D) The Vietnam War

Question 10

The _________ Amendment specifically prohibited states from denying any adult male the right to vote.

A) Sixteenth
B) Twelfth
C) Fifteenth
D) Seventeenth

Question 11

The misapplication of evolutionary and biological theories is demonstrated through the ___________ movement.

A) Social Darwinism
B) Eugenics
C) Both a and b
D) Neither a nor b

Question 12

The systematic denial of African Americans' right to vote is exemplified by

A) Poll taxes and few voting locations
B) Few voting locations and literacy tests
C) Literacy tests and poll taxes
D) None of these

Question 13

The policy of "separate but equal" was upheld by the Supreme Court in which case?

A) Lawrence v Texas
B) Plessy v Ferguson
C) Missouri ex rel. Gaines v Canada
D) Brown v Board of Education

Question 14

The policy of "separate but equal" was overturned in which Supreme Court case?

A) Lawrence v Texas
B) Plessy v Ferguson
C) Missouri ex rel. Gaines v Canada
D) Brown v Board of Education

Question 15

The first steps for racial equality were taken shortly after World War II, under the presidency of

A) Dwight D. Eisenhower
B) Harry S. Truman
C) Franklin D. Roosevelt
D) Selective disobedience

Question 16

_________is the deliberate disobedience of laws viewed as morally repugnant.

A) Civil disobedience
B) Social disobedience
C) Moral Disobedience
D) Selective disobedience

Question 17

A nonviolent technique of protesting unjust laws or practices is known as

A) Open resistance
B) Passive resistance
C) Quiet resistance
D) None of these.

Question 18

The _____________ Act of 1964 outlawed racial segregation in public places and barred discrimination in employment of the basis of sex.

A) Voting Rights
B) Civil Rights
C) Civil Liberties
D) Jim Crow

Question 19

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 targeted ___________ laws primarily used in the southern states to disenfranchise African American voters.

A) Robert Douglas
B) James Monroe
C) Jim Crow
D) Sam Smith

Question 20

The 1965 ____________ Act authorized the federal government to ensure that eligible voters were not denied access to the ballot.

A) Civil Rights
B) Civil Liberties
C) Voting Rights
D) None of these

Question 21

___________ discrimination is discrimination by the law.

A) De facto
B) De jure
C) Ipso facto
D) Sui generis

Question 22

_____________ discrimination is discrimination that exists in fact, real life, or in practice.

A) De facto
B) De jure
C) Ipso facto
D) Sui generis

Question 23

One modern civil rights movement protesting police brutality toward and killing of African Americans is

A) Black Lives Matter
B) All Lives Matter
C) Black Liberation Movement
D) None of these

Question 24

The fasted growing ethnic minority in the United States is

A) Native Americans
B) African Americans
C) Asian Americans
D) Latino Americans

Question 25

The Dream Movement led to the creation of the ____________ immigration policy.

A) Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
B) Defending Children from Deportation
C) Deferred Action for Child Immigrants
D) None of these

Question 26

According to the text, some scholars equate the treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government as ________.

A) Ethnic cleansing
B) Genocide
C) Nothing wrong
D) Civilization

Question 27

The best-known incident to focus national attention on the plight of ____________ was the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973.

A) African Americans
B) Latino Americans
C) Native Americans
D) Asian Americans

Question 28

__________ are not a true minority in terms of numbers, despite being treated like one.

A) African Americans
B) Asian Americans
C) Women
D) Men

Question 29

Suffrage is

A) Suffering for a political cause
B) The right to vote
C) Disenfranchisement
D) A political movement

Question 30

The representation level of Latinos in Congress is only _______ as large as the Latino voting-age population.

A) One-quarter
B) One-half
C) One-third
D) One-fifth

Question 31

Women's rights advocates score all of the following victories EXCEPT

A) Legally barring discrimination in employment based on sex
B) The prohibition of discrimination based on sex in federally aided education programs
C) The extension of the U.S, Commission on Civil Rights to study sex discrimination
D) Legal obligation to equal pay for equal work

Question 32

Women who have served as Secretary of State include all of the following EXCEPT

A) Hillary Rodham Clinton
B) Sandra Day O'Connor
C) Condoleezza Rice
D) Madeleine Albright

Question 33

The ___________ Movement uses social media to de-stigmatize survivors of sexual violence and highlight the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in society.

A) MeToo
B) NotAllMen
C) BlackLivesMatter
D) ItHappens

Question 34

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in

A) 1970
B) 1980
C) 1990
D) 2000

Question 35

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed to extend _________ to disabled citizens.

A) Civil rights
B) Civil liberties
C) Civic education
D) None of these

Question 36

The Supreme Court Case stating that marriage is a fundamental right protected by the Constitution is

A) Obergefell v Hodges
B) Lawrence v Texas
C) Board of Trustees v Garrett
D) None of these

Question 37

After gaining the right to vote, women still had to fight for all of the following EXCEPT

A) Equality in employment
B) Equality in education
C) Equality in marriage
D) Equality in the political process

Question 38

According to the US Supreme Court, the use of race as a factor in allocating resources or granting favored status is never permissible.

Question 39

The gender gap is no longer an issue since the election of Kamala Harris as Vice President.

Question 40

Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to move seats on a segregated bus.

Question 41

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples was formed in 1909.

Question 42

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. advocated for active resistance to unjust government laws.

Question 43

The basic argument for affirmative action policies is that inequality cannot be wiped out by removing just legal discrimination.

Question 44

Quality before the law is enough to end discrimination against minorities.

Question 45

"Dreamers" came to the United States as children.

Question 46

Government policy toward Native Americans has stayed relatively the same over time.

Question 47

A movement to fight the negative stereotyping of Native Americans has been largely successful.

Question 48

Before the Nineteenth Amendment, no states allowed women to vote.

Question 49

Ethnicity, gender, and disability are the only classifications that face discrimination.

Question 50

Minorities have faced long struggles in fighting for civil rights.

Question 51

Does studying how biology influences social traits inevitably lead to concerns about civil liberties and civil rights? Why or why not?

Question 52

Given the history of Social Darwinism and the eugenics movement, do you think political scientists should continue to investigate how biology influences attitudes and behavior? Why or why not?

Question 53

What is the best way to measure racial attitudes? What difference does it make in the outcomes of political science studies?