PSC 101_ WTP Chapter 5 Lesson Quiz
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WTP Chapter 5 Lesson:
What strategies have been used by social movements to achieve their goals?
Social movements have often followed inside strategies, outside strategies, or a combination of
both depending on the social and political environment and available resources.
Civil liberties are often viewed as limitations on government, while civil rights are often seen as
expansions of government action.
True.
Which of the following represents a limitation of a Supreme Court-focused strategy to the
advancement of civil rights?
Supreme Court decisions are not self-enforcing, so the Court must rely on others to carry out its
decisions.
What is a “protected class”?
Religious, national, or racial minorities that are at a disadvantage in the political process against
majorities.
The equal protection clause is located in the
Fourteenth Amendment.
Which of the following statements regarding Jim Crow laws is TRUE?
Jim Crow laws were approved by the Supreme Court.
What were Jim Crow laws?
Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against Black
Americans.
One step taken towards achieving desegregation of public schools was
busing children from poor
urban school districts to wealthier suburban ones.
Which of the following statements best describes the effect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on
voter registration in southern states?
The gap between the percentage of Whites registering to vote and the percentage of African
Americans registering to vote declined significantly after passage of the Voting Rights Act.
The use of any unreasonable and unjust criterion of exclusion is known as
discrimination.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees
African American men the right to
vote.
Which of these statements would abolitionsts have opposed?
Enslaved people are the property of an enslaver and, as such, are not free when in a free state.
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court established the “separate but equal” rule.
True.
Women were guaranteed the right to vote with the passage of the
Nineteenth
Amendment in
1920.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act served as an important basis for the courts addressing claims of
sex discrimination and sexual harassment.
True.
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
was a valuable tool for the women’s movement in the
1960s and 1970s because it prohibited gender discrimination.
In 1882, the United States Congress barred entry to workers from
China.
What does it mean that several cities have declared themselves “sanctuaries” with respect to
immigration enforcement?
These sanctuary cities refuse to cooperate with the federal immigration agents in their efforts to
enforce federal immigration policies.
The use of any unreasonable and unjust criteria of exclusion is known as
discrimination.
Most of the law on sexual harassment has been the result of
court decisions interpreting Title VII
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) was significant because it
guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry in all states and required states to recognize
same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions.
In
United States v. Wong Kim Ark,
the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment
guaranteed citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
An example of affirmative action is when a public university decides to implement a scholarship
program aimed at individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as the economically
disadvantaged.
True.
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