The 2008 presidential election was important because it
demonstrated that women and African Americans can be serious contenders for the presidency.
Suspect classification
creates a very high barrier to laws treating a suspect group differently from others.
The Supreme Court designated race a suspect class in
ended with the end of Reconstruction.
Attempts to ensure that blacks enjoyed equal citizenship in fact as well as theory after the Civil War
ended with the end of Reconstruction.
Blacks were kept from exercising their rights in the South after Reconstruction by all of the following methods EXCEPT
A. grandfather clauses.
B. Jim Crow laws.
C. poll taxes.
D. literacy tests.
E. civil suits.
civil suits.
The rights given blacks in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments did not really help African Americans following the Civil War because
The rights given blacks in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments did not really help Afric
Congress, the president, and southern state governments made little effort to enforce them.
The decision in _______ overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
Korematsu v. United States
limited the civil rights of Japanese Americans in the interest of national security.
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that
segregated schools were inherently unequal because the very fact of segregation made blacks feel unequal.
_____ discrimination is discrimination in fact.
De facto
The candidacy and election of Barack Obama had all of the following effects EXCEPT
it clearly improved the candidacies of blacks in future elections.
All of the following statements concerning affirmative action are true EXCEPT
Statistics indicate that blacks are now even with whites on most economic measures.
Congressional policy toward Native Americans has historically varied between
assimilating Native Americans into a European-based culture and encouraging independence and self-government.
Native Americans face the dilemma that
they are asked to make concessions that are incompatible with their culture, but they depend on the American government to get them out of poverty.
Which of the following is NOT an important fact concerning Hispanic Americans?
They are considered to be an insignificant voting bloc in elections.
The lack of immigration from Asia during much of the first half of the twentieth century can be attributed most directly to
legislation passed by Congress that restricted immigration from China and Japan.
During World War II, Japanese Americans
were placed in detainment camps for national security purposes.
All of the following statements concerning Hispanics are true EXCEPT
A. Issues surrounding their immigration to the United States are likely to fade in the near future.
B. They are a diverse community.
C. They represent a rapidly increasing proportion of
Issues surrounding their immigration to the United States are likely to fade in the near future.
Issues surrounding their immigration to the United States are likely to fade in the near future.
is Sonia Sotomayor.
Which of the following statements concerning the status of women in the early nineteenth century America is NOT true?
A. They could not own property.
B. They were not permitted to give up their American citizenship if they married a man who was not a citi
They were not permitted to give up their American citizenship if they married a man who was not a citizen.
Women gained the right to vote by a strategy of
gaining the right to vote in states where they had support and expanding their support over time.
aws that treat men and women differently are subject to
an intermediate standard of review.
The Lilly Ledbetter Act
extended the time period available to a woman claiming gender discrimination in the workplace.
Women are
the most underrepresented group in Congress and state legislatures.
In Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court ruled that
state sodomy laws were a violation of the right to privacy.