Question 1

Which of the following laws would be the most likely to draw strict scrutiny from the Supreme Court when determining its constitutionality?

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A)   Male and female student athletes cannot compete on the same basketball team at the university level.
B)   Businesses cannot discriminate against gays and lesbians in hiring and promotion decisions.
C)   Those without a college degree are not eligible for upper-level civil service jobs.
D)   African Americans and whites must be given equal access to the public school system, including extracurricular activities.
E)   Government contracts must be awarded to a contractor who is a racial minority whenever at least 10 percent of the bidders are minority-owned businesses.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 2

The focus of the __________ was to establish women's right to vote.

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Question 3

What was the rationale for rejecting the claim that the federal government needed to abolish Jim Crow laws because they conflicted with the equal protection clause?

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A)   The federal government should not interfere in states' rights to determine their own equal protection laws and should not practice social engineering.
B)   The federal government should leave the decision up to each state because in some states Jim Crow laws were important for maintaining social order.
C)   Jim Crow laws helped African Americans achieve equality by building character through overcoming adversity, so to declare them a violation of equal protection would be counterproductive.
D)   The equal protection clause applied only to the actions of the federal government, so states were within their rights to enact Jim Crow laws.
E)   The equal protection clause referred only to social equality, not legal or political equality, so the federal government should not make equal protection a legal or political issue.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 4

Jim Crow laws required __________ of African Americans and whites.

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Question 5

__________ are government guarantees of equality for people in the United States regarding the courts, political participation, treatment by public officials, and access to benefits accorded to other citizens.

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Question 6

What are civil rights? What does the Constitution say about them? Why did the idea of civil rights appear comparatively late in the development of the United States?

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Question 7

For which of the following would the Supreme Court most likely apply intermediate scrutiny to determine whether the policy is an unconstitutional violation of the equal protection clause?

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A)   preventing whites from attending schools designed to serve African American students
B)   prohibiting those over seventy years old from working in law enforcement
C)   prohibiting gays and lesbians from serving in the military
D)   requiring government contractors to have a racially diverse workforce
E)   having different minimum ages for men and women to marryF) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 8

According to the "Using the Framework" feature box, the Roberts Court is less supportive of affirmative action programs than was the Rehnquist Court.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

How does de facto segregation differ from de jure segregation? In Plessy v. Ferguson, what did the Supreme Court say about the relationship between de jure segregation and equality? What did the Supreme Court say about this relationship in Brown v. Board of Education? Evaluate the extent to which de facto segregation leads to inequality, and illustrate your answer with two examples.

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Question 11

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

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A)   the all men are created equal clause
B)   the equal protection clause
C)   the privileges and immunities clause
D)   the Equal Rights Amendment
E)   the grandfather clauseF) B) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 12

What did Jim Crow laws mandate?

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A)   voting rights
B)   racial segregation
C)   poll taxes
D)   grandfather clauses
E)   black codesF) None of the above
G) A) and C)

Question 13

What are the two main reasons why public schools have partially resegregated in recent years? Do you find this trend troubling? Why or why not?

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Question 14

Describe the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Why were they necessary, given that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were enacted decades beforehand?

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Question 15

In a city where many people with children have moved to the suburbs, the city might have difficulty in achieving __________ without some kind of student assignment strategy.

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Question 16

What three amendments to the Constitution were passed following the Civil War that created a foundation for civil rights as we understand them today? What did the amendments say? Which of these amendments applied to women as well as men, and which did not? How did women finally achieve the rights denied to them under these amendments?

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Question 17

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

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A)   The Supreme Court did not have all of the facts when it adopted the separate-but-equal doctrine.
B)   The separate-but-equal doctrine was never intended to apply to people.
C)   The quality of life for African Americans in the South had deteriorated considerably since the adoption of the separate-but-equal doctrine.
D)   The Supreme Court needed to step in because the South had been unwilling to segregate educational facilities as required by Plessy v. Ferguson.
E)   Segregated schools stigmatize minority children and are inherently unequal.F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 18

Experiences of racial profiling by the police have been reported by a fairly large percentage of African American men, but very rarely by Latino or Asian men.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from doing which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)   refusing equal treatment to all people within their boundaries
B)   depriving women, African Americans, and Native Americans of their rights
C)   preventing anyone from voting by use of voter ID fraud
D)   refusing to honor the legal rights of citizens from out of state
E)   depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property arbitrarilyF) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 20

__________ programs are designed to help remedy continued inequality by giving special treatment to members of previously discriminated-against groups.

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For which of the following would the Supreme Court most likely apply intermediate scrutiny to determine whether the policy is an unconstitutional violation of the equal protection clause?

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

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The focus of the __________ was to establish women's right to vote.

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Jim Crow laws required __________ of African Americans and whites.

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

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__________ are government guarantees of equality for people in the United States regarding the courts, political participation, treatment by public officials, and access to benefits accorded to other citizens.

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__________ programs are designed to help remedy continued inequality by giving special treatment to members of previously discriminated-against groups.

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

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