Civil Rights: Govt 2305 Practice Game 5-1
Practice quiz on civil rights - Govt. 2305 American Govt.
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Topics of this game:
- According to the Preamble to the Constitution, what is the central purpose of representative government?
- The fundamental guarantees ensuring equal treatment and protecting against discrimination under the laws of a nation are called ______.
- Unlike civil liberties, civil rights require
- Because they require action to ensure their expression, civil rights are sometimes called ______.
- In the 1950s, Judith Heumann was refused attendance at her local elementary school for
- In response to the slow implementation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1974, individuals across the nation began a series of nonviolent activities called the ______.
- Who argued the Brown v. Board or Education case for the NAACP before the Supreme Court in 1952 ?
- How many cases were argued together as a part of the Brown v. Board of Education case ?
- de jure segregation is best described as
- The main worry of Thurgood Marshall and his team was that the Court would find that ______.
- Thurgood Marshall’s legal team needed the Supreme Court to ______.
- Even if it succeeded, the NAACP knew its strategy on winning in the Supreme Court was a risky move because ______.
- In Federalist 78, Alexander Hamilton stated that the judiciary is ______.
- In which Supreme Court case were slaves, former slaves and their descendants deemed property and not citizens?
- According to the majority opinion of Justice Taney in Scott v. Sanford, natural rights had been ______.
- Ultimately, the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Scott v. Sanford (Dred Scott) threatened ______.
- In December of 1860, the state of ______ made the threat of secession a reality.
- Which of the following was true of the Emancipation Proclamation?
- After the assassination of President Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson’s post civil-war policies pushed for laws that would ______.
- Which of the following amendments prohibited slavery in the United States?
- What part of the 14th Amendment served as the Constitutional basis for the NAACP assault on educational segregation in the South ?
- Which Amendment to the Constitution allowed Congress to make laws necessary to affirm the voting rights of all freed men ?
- What did Southern states do in reaction to the 14th Amendment?
- As the Democratic party gained political power in Southern States and the will of the Republican Party began to fade, what happened to the gains made by African-Americans ?
- Laws passed by Southern states in order to preserve segregation and prevent African-American men from exercising their 15th Amendment right to vote were called ______ laws
- In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court uphold the constituionality of legalized racial segregation ?
- Segregation by custom or practice, rather than law is defined as __________ segregation.
- Which of the following best describes the after effect of the Brown v. Board case?
- Which of the following was used to fight DeFacto and DeJure segregation in the 1960s?
- Beginning in the 1970s, many colleges and employers used quota-based systems to address the consequences of previous discrimination by providing advantages to indivieuals based on their identities. Policies such as this are known as
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