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Date: _____________
________ are based on the expectation of equality under the law.
a. Civil rights
b. Jim Crow laws
c. Civil liberties
d. Constitutional amendments
2
When the government treats people equally but permits individuals or businesses to
discriminate, it is allowing
a. partisanship.
b. equality of outcome.
c. public discrimination.
d. private discrimination.
3
Which Amendment ended slavery?
a. Tenth
b. Thirteenth
c. Nineteenth
d. Second
4
In what year did women gain the right to vote?
a. 1904
b. 1954
c. 1920
d. 1870
5
Which Supreme Court case held that African Americans could NOT sue in federal court because
they were not American citizens?
a. Brown v. Board of Education
b. Dred Scott v. Sandford
c. Furman v. Georgia
d. New York Times v. Sullivan
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Immediately after the Civil War, freed slaves struggled to blend into society. This era was known
as
a. Reconstruction.
b. the Enlightenment.
c. the Age of Reason.
d. the Jim Crow era.
7
Which terrorist group was formed in 1866 to restore white supremacy in the U.S.?
a. the Confederates
b. the Nazis
c. the Communist Party
d. the Ku Klux Klan
8
Which case established the separate-but-equal doctrine?
a. Plessy v. Ferguson
b. Brown v. Board of Education
c. Roe v. Wade
d. Dred Scott v. Sandford
9
Which English policy, continued by the states, dictated that married women had no rights
independent of their husbands?
a. dowry
b. marriage
c. coverture
d. alimony
10 The first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was
a. Sandra Day O'Connor.
b. Jeannette Rankin.
c. Hillary Clinton.
d. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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11 In the 1950s and 1960s, the Supreme Court actively applied the ________ clause in order to
fight public discrimination.
a. separate-but-equal
b. privileges and immunities
c. due process
d. equal protection
12 What did the Supreme Court decide in the Civil Rights Cases (1883)?
a. Congress had the authority to ban both private and public discrimination.
b. Congress did not have the authority to ban public discrimination.
c. Congress did not have the authority to ban private discrimination.
d. Congress did not have the authority to ban instututional discrimination.
13 The ________ allowed the Supreme Court to prohibit limited types of private discrimination.
a. state-action doctrine
b. equal protection clause
c. Thirteenth Amendment
d. separate-but-equal doctrine
14 Which standard of review does the Supreme Court use for discrimination cases based on race?
a. the malice test
b. rational basis
c. the Lemon test
d. strict scrutiny
15 Who was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court?
a. Clarence Thomas
b. J.C. Watts
c. John Rangel
d. Thurgood Marshall
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16 Which Supreme Court case led to the end of the separate-but-equal doctrine?
a. Furman v. Georgia
b. Plessy v. Ferguson
c. Dred Scott v. Sandford
d. Brown v. Board of Education
17 President Kennedy had to send 25,000 federal troops to ensure the enrollment of James
Meredith at the University of
a. Oklahoma.
b. Mississippi.
c. Wisconsin.
d. Texas.
18 Who refused to give up his or her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus and was
subsequently arrested, leading to a Supreme Court decision that Montgomery's segregated bus
system was unconstitutional?
a. Rosa Parks
b. Martin Luther King Jr.
c. Diane Nash
d. Malcolm X
19 Which Supreme Court case struck down miscegenation, or interracial marriage?
a. Marbury v. Madison
b. Loving v. Virginia
c. Mapp v. Ohio
d. Brown v. Board of Education
20 Which piece of legislation first limited, then was later amended to ban literacy tests for voting?
a. the Civil Rights Act
b. the Articles of Confederation
c. the Voting Rights Act
d. the Constitution
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21 The Stonewall riots were an important part of the ________ movement.
a. suffrage
b. civil rights
c. disability rights
d. gay rights
22 Which U.S. President signed the "don't ask, don't tell" legislation?
a. Ronald Reagan
b. Richard Nixon
c. Bill Clinton
d. Dwight Eisenhower
23 Which piece of legislation requires that public and private businesses make "reasonable
accommodations" for individuals with disabilities?
a. the Fourteenth Amendment
b. the Americans with Disabilities Act
c. the Equal Rights Amendment
d. the Rehabilitation Act
24 When police use race as a factor to determine who to investigate for a particular crime, it is
called
a. profiling.
b. incrimination.
c. cross-examination.
d. interrogation.
25 Under which amendment do undocumented immigrants gain equal protection under the law?
a. thirteenth
b. fourteenth
c. nineteenth
d. fifteenth
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10. b
19. b
2. d
11. d
20. c
3. b
12. c
21. c,d
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4. c
13. a
22. c
5. b
14. d
23. b
6. a
15. d
24. a
7. d
16. d
25. b
8. a
17. b
9. c
18. a