Name______
Chapter 18: Civil Rights
1. _____A legal distinction that the Supreme Court scrutinizes especially closely2. _____Post-Civil War era when southern laws protected blacks' freedoms
3. _____A Supreme Court decision upholding state-enforced racial segregation
4. _____The standard under which the Court once upheld racial segregation
5. _____The term for laws forcing second-class status on blacks
6. _____A black interest group active primarily in the courts
7. _____A Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools inherently unequal
8. _____Segregation created by law
9. _____Segregation that exists but that was not created by law
10. _____A school integration plan mandating no particular racial balance
11. _____An early nonviolent leader in black civil rights
12. _____Offering the races an equal chance at desired things
13. _____Distributing desired things equally to the races
14. _____The standard by which the Court judges gender-based classifications
15. _____A ruling that held that Congress may draft men but not women
16. _____A ruling that declared all state laws prohibiting abortion unconstitutional
17. _____Legislation that barred the use of federal funds for nearly any abortion
18. _____A leading feminist organization
19. _____A philosophy of peaceful violation of laws considered unjust and accepting punishment for the violation
20. _____The standard by which the Supreme Court judges classifications based on race: they must have a compelling public purpose
21. _____The use of race or sex to give preferential treatment to blacks or women
22. _____Helping disadvantaged people catch up, usually by giving them extra education, training, or services
23. _____Giving minorities preference in hiring, promotions, college admissions, and contracts
24. _____Designing remedies for overcoming racism and sexism by taking race and sex into account
25. _____A Supreme Court ruling stating that a college may not use an explicit numerical quota in admitting minorities but could "take race into account:"
26. _____Any persons who are not U.S. citizens
27. _____The rights of citizens to vote, receive equal treatment before the law, and share benefits of public facilities / A. affirmative action
B. aliens
C. Bakke
D. Brown v. Board of Education
E. civil rights
F. compensatory action
G. de facto segregation
H. de jure segregation
I. equality of opportunity
J. equality of results
K. freedom of choice
L. Hyde Amendment
M. Jim Crow
N. Martin Luther King, Jr.
O. NAACP
P. nonviolent civil disobedience
Q. NOW
R. Plessy v. Ferguson
S. preferential treatment
T. reasonableness
U. Reconstruction
V. reverse discrimination
W. Roe v. Wade
X. Rostker v. Goldberg
Y. separate-but-equal doctrine
Z. strict scrutiny
AA. suspect classification
Match the following
Practice Test Questions
Please Circle the Correct Answer
1. The Framers would have considered a clause in the U.S. Constitution prohibiting censorship of the press
a) Undesirable
b) Unreasonable
c) Unnecessary
d) Unenforceable
e) All of these
2. A person treating the U.S. flag contemptuously is
a) Subject to conviction in federal court
b) Subject to conviction in state court
c) Subject to conviction in state and federal court
d) Protected by Fourth Amendment rights
e) Protected by the right to exercise free speech
3. A basic difference between the United States Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution proper is that the former
a) Covers what government cannot do
b) Authorizes government to censor newspapers
c) Protects free speech
d) Applies principally to states
e) Applies principally to state governments
4. Civil liberties become a major issue for all of the following reason EXCEPT that
a) The rights of different groups may conflict
b) The costs of enforcing rights may be expensive
c) Passions may be inflamed by entrepreneurs
d) The costs of enforcement are moderate
e) Principles themselves are in conflict
5. The case of the anti-Jewish speeches of Carl Jacob Kunz illustrates how civil liberties issues arise when
a) The rights of different groups are in conflict
b) The costs of enforcing rights are expensive
c) Passion are inflamed by entrepreneurs
d) Principles themselves are in conflict
e) The costs of enforcement are moderate
6. An example of how entrepreneurial politics can enter the realm of civil liberties is that of
a) The so called Red Scare during WWI
b) Dr. Samuel Sheppard’s assertion of his rights to a fair trial
c) Jewish opposition to Christian Crèches
d) Efforts to bring bilingual education into Hispanic districts
e) All of the above
7. The Espionage Act of 1917 was passed by Congress as a result of events related to
a) The Civil War
b) World War I
c) World War II
d) The Korean War
e) The Panic of 1913
8. Usually, the Supreme Court has reacted to wartime curtailments of civil liberties by
a) Upholding them
b) Rejecting them
c) Upholding them first, limiting them later
d) Rejecting them first, reinstating them later
e) Avoiding rulings, consigning issues to lower courts
9. When are laws that narrow the limits of permissible speech and activity MOST likely to be passed?
a) When entrepreneurial politics is weakest
b) When the presidency is weak
c) When cultures are in conflict
d) During times of peach and prosperity
e) During times of war and civil unrest
10. The First Amendment does NOT address
a) Freedom of religion
b) Right to bear arms
c) Freedom of the press
d) Freedom of speech
e) Freedom of assembly