Chapter 6

considerable intragroup diversity

A major problem that Hispanics have encountered in grasping and wielding political power is their ______.

do not vote as often as would be predicted by their socioeconomic status

Barbour and Wright claim that a potentially surprising feature of Asian American political participation is that they ______.

pluralist

Barbour and Wright contend that the ______ model of democratic politics is the most relevant for understanding how American citizens have been able to claim and defend their rights.

True

The Supreme Court concluded in 1976 that age is a nonsuspect classification.

ending slavery as an American institution

Abolitionists were primarily interested in ______.

rights are power

According to Barbour and Wright, people deny rights to others because ______.

acceptable, so long as the policy is not tantamount to implementing a quota

According to Barbour and Wright, the Supreme Court contends that the use of racial diversity criteria in university admissions decisions is ______.

NAACP

According to Barbour and Wright, the civil rights group known as the _____ created the legal strategy that eventually dismantled the discriminatory Jim Crow system.

acted as a catalyst for the civil rights movement

An important consequence of the Brown decision was that it ______.

True

Citizens have frequently used interest groups to acquire and protect their rights.

are protected by a variety of constitutional amendments

Civil rights ______.

False

Colorado was the first state to grant women the right to vote.

were placed in internment camps, allegedly for national security reasons

During World War II, Japanese-Americans ______.

create a hostile work environment

For an incident to be classified as sexual harassment, it must ______.

Native American reservations have a separate legal existence under federal jurisdiction

Generally speaking, Native Americans have not been able to turn to state political entities for help in exercising their rights because ______.

universities may not use inflexible quotas in making admissions decisions

In the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) case, the Supreme Court stated that ______.

attempted to rebuild the South's economy

Reconstruction was the post-Civil War period in which the federal government ______.

separate public facilities for blacks and whites

Southern laws mandating segregation had the practical effect of creating ______.

was never ratified by the states

The Equal Rights Amendment ______.

Lawrence v. Texas (2003)

The Supreme Court provided a relatively early victory for gay rights advocates as part of its decision in the case entitled ______.

False

The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) legitimized segregation in American public schools.

False

The minimum rationality test is used by courts to determine whether a law can discriminate on the basis of gender.

Korematsu v. US (1944)

The strict scrutiny test was formulated by the Supreme Court in ______.

institutionalized social power inequalities based on perceived racial differences

The term racism involves ______.

there is a reasonable basis for the law in question

Under the minimum rationality test, the government can discriminate against members of certain classes if it can demonstrate that ______.