Question 1

Which of the following statements best describes the impact of the Fourteenth Amendment?

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The Fourteenth Amendment forced state governments to abide by almost every provision in the Bill of Rights, but the process took over 100 years.

Question 2

Members of Congress have frequently proposed a constitutional amendment to make flag burning a crime because

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the only way to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling that flag burning is protected speech is through a constitutional amendment.

Question 3

Observers claim that the Supreme Court's decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007) represents the end of the Brown era because it

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declared one of the few public strategies left to promote racial integration unconstitutional.

Question 4

The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees

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African American men the right to vote.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes the Supreme Court's first ruling on the nationalization of the Bill of Rights in 1833?

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The Bill of Rights limits the national government but not state governments.

Question 6

During the Founding era, ________ were the strongest supporters of adding a bill of rights to the Constitution.

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Antifederalists

Question 7

Which of the following best summarizes the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?

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Racially segregated schools can never be equal.

Question 8

The American experience with civil rights suggests which of the following things about political change in the United States?

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Congress needs constitutional authority from the courts to act, and the courts need legislative assistance to implement court orders and focus political support.

Question 9

How did Congress strengthen voting rights in 1970?

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They made literacy tests illegal and mandated bilingual ballots or other assistance for non-English-speaking Americans.

Question 10

Which of the following forms of speech receives the greatest level of First Amendment protection?

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political speech that stops short of inciting violence

Question 11

What was Justice Potter Stewart talking about when he declared, I know it when I see it?

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pornography

Question 12

________ are areas of personal freedom with which governments are constrained from interfering.

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Civil liberties

Question 13

The ________ forbade workplace discrimination based on race.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 14

What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?

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laws that made it a crime for foreign immigrants to belong to the Communist Party or other anti-American organizations

Question 15

According to the article Has Title IX Leveled the Playing Field,

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before Title IX, women were not awarded athletic scholarships

Question 16

Which part of the Constitution played a large role in the Obergefell v Hodges case?

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The fourteenth amendment

Question 17

Regarding the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v Hodges

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the Supreme Court justices were divided 5 to 4

Question 18

As seen in the Eyes on the Prize video, Fighting Back, Arkansas Governor Faubus

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eventually closed all Little Rock public high schools to avoid desegregation

Question 19

As seen in the Eyes on the Prize segment, Fighting Back, President Eisenhower

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NOT: delayed action but strongly condemned the whites who were riotingNOT: sent national troops to Arkansas to prevent the Little Rock Nine from going to white high school

Question 20

In the case of Brown v Board of Education

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the Supreme Court ruled that schools could not be segregated

Question 21

The term eminent domain describes the

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power of the government to seize private property for public use.

Question 22

Which of the following statements about selective incorporation is most accurate?

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Until 1961, only the First Amendment and one clause of the Fifth Amendment had been clearly incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment as binding on the states as well as on the national government.

Question 23

Ten years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), only ________ percent of black children in the Deep South attended school with white children.

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1

Question 24

Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (2007) was significant because it

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NOT: struck down Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as unconstitutional.

Question 25

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

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was a valuable tool for the women's movement in the 1960s and 1970s because it prohibited gender discrimination.

Question 26

Desegregating schools in northern states proved to be difficult because

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segregation in the North was generally de facto and hard to prove.

Question 27

Which of the following was used as a way to limit the electoral influence of African Americans?

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literacy tests

Question 28

The requirement that a person under arrest be informed of his or her right to remain silent is known as the ________ rule.

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Miranda

Question 29

Which of the following statements best summarizes the federal courts' rulings on Internet content?

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NOT:The courts have ruled that selling child pornography online cannot be outlawed because it is protected expression under the First Amendment.

Question 30

Why was New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) significant?

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NOT: The justices ruled that newspapers could be guilty of libel if they published any information that was ultimately proven to be inaccurate.

Question 31

The Supreme Court case New York Times v. United States (1971) was related to which First Amendment concept?

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prior restraint

Question 32

Strict scrutiny is the level of judicial review that federal judges give to all cases that involve ________ classifications.

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racial

Question 33

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution deals with

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the right to bear arms.

Question 34

All of the following are true about Title IX EXCEPT:

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Most California schools comply fully with Title IX

Question 35

With regard to the Brown v Board of Education case,

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desegregation of schools immediately followed the Supreme Court decision

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