chapter 5 and 6 quiz
The __________ Amendment made clear that no state may deny the right to vote on the basis of sex.
19th
Plessy v. Ferguson
A case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregated, "equal but separate" public accommodations for blacks and whites did not violate the 14th amendment. This ruling made segregation legal.
In the immediate aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, southern resistance to school integration quickly collapsed.
False
Laws cannot treat people differently.
False
The Supreme Court first found a "right to privacy" in the __________ case.
Griswold v. Connecticut
Which statement best summarizes the pertinent question of civil rights?
Laws can treat different people differently, but such differences must be reasonable.
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education
Segregated schooling is constitutional. allowed black public high school in Georgia to close while white equivalent remained open-- not in violation of 14th amendment because blacks could go to private school. Segregated schooling is constitutional.
Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down laws banning interracial marriage as violations of the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In the ______________ decision, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate-but-equal" facilities were constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court decision that overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision (1896); led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional. The decision energized the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools.
An example of a difference in treatment toward certain groups that qualifies as reasonable is
taxing different classes at different rates.
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed political equality but not social equality.
True
It is illegal for an employee to experience a work environment that has been made hostile or intimidating by a steady pattern of offensive sexual teasing, jokes, or obscenity.
True
The outcome of the 1964 election helped the civil rights forces.
True
Until 1967, 16 states outlawed marriages between whites and nonwhites.
True
The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act granted amnesty and citizenship to illegal aliens who
Were already living in the United States
Which of the following statements concerning the "right to privacy" is correct?
b. it is nowhere mentioned in the constitution
In their struggle for equal treatment, women, unlike blacks, had to deal with a legal tradition that
claimed to be protecting them.
Supporters of equality of opportunity tend to
consider affirmative action to be a form of reverse discrimination. Have orthodox beliefs, and supporters of equality of results tend to have progressive beliefs.
One factor helping to break the deadlock that developed in the civil rights movement during the early 1960s was the
media coverage of violence by white segregationist
Laws that address public order and the safety and morals of citizens have traditionally been considered the focus of
police powers
As its rationale for the decision in Brown, the Supreme Court relied primarily on
social science evidence
Rosa Parks had a tremendous impact on the civil rights movement when she refused to
surrender her seat to a white man
In the Dred Scott Case (Scott v. Sanford), the Supreme Court ruled
that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in a territory and that a slave was considered a piece of property
The difference between de facto and de jure segregation is that
the former results from private choices, the latter from public law