Chapter 5 - Civil Liberties and Civil Rights - POST TEST

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Which group formally received the right to vote in 1924?

Native Americans

NAACP litigation leading up to Brown v. Board of Education challenged and weakened the __________ doctrine.

Separate but Equal

What did the Separate but Equal doctrine do?

permitted a system of segregated social facilities

In _________________, the Supreme Court ruled that homosexual behavior was not protected by the Constitution, but overruled this decision nearly twenty years later.

Bowers v. Hardwick

What act prevented Chinese immigrants already in the United States from becoming citizens and halted almost all immigration from China?

Chinese Exclusion Act

As a condition of admitting California to the United States as a free state, representatives from southern states demanded Congress pass what law?

The Fugitive Slave Act

Why was the Brown v. Board of Education case filed?

To challenge the separate but equal doctrine.

Under the strict scrutiny standard, a law that discriminates based on race must be shown to serve some _____ in order to be upheld.

compelling state interest

Some civil liberties are rooted in the ___________ clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; the grounding for civil rights is found in the ______________ clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

due process, equal protection


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