Poli Sci Quizes

Front 1

T/F
The Fourth Amendment's purpose was to deny the national government the authority to conduct general searches.

Back 1

True

Front 2

At times, the Supreme Court allows the use of hallucinogenic drugs for use in religious observances.

Back 2

Ture

Front 3

In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has been more likely to allow the mingling of church and state.

Back 3

True

Front 4

In Gitlow v. New York, the Supreme Court used the Fourteenth Amendment to apply the First Amendment protection of freedom of speech to the states.

Back 4

True

Front 5

The Federalists put forward the idea of a Bill of Rights in order to protect the liberty of individual citizens from the state governments

Back 5

Flase

Front 6

Griswold v. Connecticut involved ____________________

Back 6

Birth Control

Front 7

The European Union has made it illegal to make statements that deny or trivialize the Holocaust. If such a law were passed in the United States, how would the Supreme Court likely respond?

Back 7

The Court would likely overturn the law because the First Amendment prevents the government from silencing speech on the basis of its content.

Front 8

The Eighth Amendment prohibits ____________________.

Back 8

cruel and unusual punishment

Front 9

Who is least likely to be eligible to serve on a jury?

Back 9

those who have prejudiced a case

Front 10

In Weeks v. U.S., the Supreme Court barred the use of ____________________.

Back 10

illegally seized evidence at trial

Front 11

The right to a grand jury; the prohibition against depriving life, liberty, or property without due process; the right against self-incrimination; and the prohibition against eminent domain seizures without fair compensation are all found under which Amendment?

Back 11

5th Amendment

Front 12

Which of the following can the police search without a warrant?

Back 12

Farmer's fields containing "No Trespassing" signs

Front 13

During the Civil War, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, which normally provides for what right?

Back 13

The right to a court determination that you are being held lawfully

Front 14

The main reason states may not deny their citizens the right to assemble peaceably is that ____________________.

Back 14

Amendment's freedom to assemble.

Front 15

Which of the following is a limit on the First Amendment's freedom of speech?

Back 15

speech that poses a clear and present danger
libel and slander
obscenity
fighting words

Front 16

Free speech zones on college campuses ____________________.

Back 16

restrict the time, place, and manner of speech on some college campuses.

Front 17

The Supreme Court first ruled that symbolic speech was protected by the First Amendment in ____________________.

Back 17

Stromberg v. California

Front 18

Which test upheld the Espionage Act of WWI, which prohibited distributing anti-war leaflets during wartime?

Back 18

The clear and present danger test

Front 19

The First Amendment covers which of the following?

Back 19

Assembly
Religion
Speech
Press

Front 20

According to protesters Jim Webber and Tom Griner, how did Clark County, Nevada, violate their civil liberties?

Back 20

They were singled out for the religious nature of their message.

Front 21

________ According to the Supreme Court, which of the following practices violate the establishment clause? Student-led prayers at high school football games Prayer in school. Organized prayers at public school graduations. Providing sign language teachers for students in religious schools.

Back 21

I, II ,and III

Front 22

Which judicial doctrine has applied most but not all of the Bill of Rights to the states through case law?

Back 22

selective incorporation

Front 23

The Supreme Court first ruled that states were not completely free to limit forms of political expression in ____________________.

Back 23

Gitlow v. New York

Front 24

Which of the rights has not been incorporated?

Back 24

Right to bear arms

Front 25

Personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge by law or judicial interpretation are known as ____________________.

Back 25

Civil Liberties

Front 26

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on ____________________.

Back 26

race, creed, color, and religion

Front 27

Which of the following best describes the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice?

Back 27

Evidence points to considerable politicization of the division.

Front 28

Why did northern senators initially oppose adding Missouri to the union?

Back 28

Missouri would be a slave state

Front 29

Where does the Constitution discuss equality?

Back 29

Fourteenth ammendment

Front 30

Why did Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton become frustrated with the abolitionist movement?

Back 30

Many abolitionists supported the Fifteenth Amendment even though it did not guarantee women's rights.

Front 31

Laws enacted by southern states that resulted in segregation by race were also known as ____________________.

Back 31

Jim Crow Laws

Front 32

The Niagara Movement was concerned with

Back 32

Womans suffrage

Front 33

George McLaurin challenged the constitutionality of ______

Back 33

separate but equal graduate education.

Front 34

In 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott began after ________ refused to give up his/her seat on a public bus

Back 34

Rosa Parks

Front 35

________ led the longest filibuster in U.S. history in an effort to block passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Question 10 answers

Back 35

Strom Thrumond

Front 36

President John F. Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women was headed by ____________________.

Back 36

Eleanor Roosevelt

Front 37

When was the Equal Rights Amendment added to the Constitution?

Back 37

The Equal Rights Amendment was not ratified by enough states and did not become part of the Constitution.

Front 38

As early as 1937, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that ____________________.
Question 13 answers

Back 38

some freedoms were so fundamental that any restrictions needed the strictest level of scrutiny to be considered constitutional.

Front 39

The primary purpose of which of the following groups is to lobby and litigate on behalf of Hispanic Americans?

Back 39

MALDEF

Front 40

On May 1, 2006, more than a million people rallied in cities across the nation to __________________

Back 40

draw attention to the plight of immigrants.

Front 41

In their fight for civil rights, what advantage have gays and lesbians had over other minorities?

Back 41

They have higher average levels of income and education.

Front 42

What protections are afforded to gays and lesbians by the state of Nebraska? A hate crime law provides stiffer penalties for crimes motivated by sexual orientation. A job discrimination law prohibits discrimination on the basis on sexual orientation. Same-sex couples have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples. A real estate law prohibits sellers from disclosing the sexual orientation of their neighbors to prospective buyers.

Back 42

I

Front 43

Which of the following best describes the accessibility of colleges and universities to students with disabilities?

Back 43

Many educational institutions have not made their facilities fully accessible to those with disabilities.

Front 44

Advocates for a living wage ___________________

Back 44

believe that wages should be enough to provide for a satisfactory standard of living.

Front 45

Who is more likely to support affirmative action

Back 45

Someone who believes that the government should ensure equality of results

Front 46

Under the George W. Bush administration, prosecution for gender and race discrimination has nearly doubled.

Back 46

False

Front 47

The Constitution narrowly defined equality until the addition of the Civil War Amendments.

Back 47

True

Front 48

The Fourteenth Amendment has been used to increase civil rights.

Back 48

True

Front 49

Women were granted the right to vote at the same time as African Americans.

Back 49

False

Front 50

Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer for the NAACP, was later appointed the first African American to the U.S. Supreme Court

Back 50

True

Front 51

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and all federal statutes prohibiting discrimination are ____________________.

Back 51

enforced by the civil rights division of the Justice Department.

Front 52

During the George W. Bush administration, key enforcement priorities of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division included __________________

Back 52

immigration and deportion

Front 53

________ addressed the first major national crisis over slavery.

Back 53

Missouri Compromise

Front 54

Abolitionists worked towards ___________________

Back 54

ending slavery

Front 55

The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments are collectively known as the ______

Back 55

Civil War ammendments

Front 56

In the Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court determined that ___________________

Back 56

private citizens can discriminate on the basis of race.

Front 57

Members of the __________ were arrested for protesting in front of the White House in an attempt to secure the right to vote for women.

Back 57

National Womans Party

Front 58

To comply with the "separate but equal" doctrine, Texas passed legislation creating the Texas State University for Negroes. According to the Supreme Court, why would a law degree from this new program be unequal to a law degree offered by the University of Texas?

Back 58

he quality of a law degree is heavily influenced by a university's reputation.

Front 59

The 1954 Supreme Court decision that overturned Plessy was ____________________.

Back 59

Brown v. Board of Education.

Front 60

Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to ________ in order to protect African American students seeking entry into Little Rock's Central High School.

Back 60

send federal troops to Arkansas

Front 61

A hallmark of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s strategy to achieve equality was ____________________

Back 61

Civil disobedience

Front 62

The longest filibuster in U.S. history was an attempt to block passage of ____________________

Back 62

Civil Rights act of 1964

Front 63

The Equal Rights Amendment would have provided ____________________.

Back 63

that no state or Congress could deny or abridge equal rights on account of gender.

Front 64

Legal distinctions based on which of the following classifications are most likely to receive strict scrutiny from the Supreme Court?

Back 64

Race

Front 65

Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments to the Civil Rights Act prohibits educational institutions that receive federal funds from discriminating ____________________.

Back 65

against female students.

Front 66

________ is the largest Hispanic group in the United States.

Back 66

The League of United Latin American Citizens

Front 67

A key MALDEF legal victory was ____________________

Back 67

the finding that multimember electoral districts were unconstitutional.

Front 68

Which of the following groups has been the least successful in pursuing their civil rights claims?

Back 68

gays and lesbians

Front 69

In Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court ruled that ____________________.

Back 69

states could not prohibit sodomy

Front 70

In 1978, the Supreme Court first addressed the issue of affirmative action in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. They ruled that ___________________

Back 70

race could be taken into account, but strict quotas were unconstitutional

Front 71

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 attempted to make slavery illegal in all states north of a specific geographical boundary.

Back 71

True

Front 72

The Thirteenth Amendment bans slavery.

Back 72

True

Front 73

The doctrine of "separate but equal" was promulgated by the Civil Rights Cases (1883).

Back 73

False

Front 74

The women's suffrage amendment passed in 1920

Back 74

true

Front 75

The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education overturned its earlier separate-but-equal ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Question 25 answers

Back 75

True