Review Test Submission: Chapter 5 TEST

 
User Rayonne T Victor-Frett
Course 201980_PSC_0120_American Government_51_INET
Test Chapter 5 TEST
Started 9/16/19 3:07 PM
Submitted 9/16/19 3:51 PM
Due Date 9/20/19 11:59 PM
Status Completed
Attempt Score 10 out of 10 points  
Time Elapsed 43 minutes
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 Question 1
1 out of 1 points

In Shelby County v. Holder (2014), the Supreme Court

Selected a. 
Answer: struck down the 1965 Voting Rights Act’s formula for determining
whether a jurisdiction needed federal preclearance before making any
changes to its voting laws or practices.
Answers: a. 
struck down the 1965 Voting Rights Act’s formula for determining
whether a jurisdiction needed federal preclearance before making any
changes to its voting laws or practices.
b. 
upheld the 1965 Voting Rights Act’s formula for determining whether a
jurisdiction needed federal preclearance before making any changes to
its voting laws or practices.
c. 
struck down an Arizona law requiring that individuals produce proof of
U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote.
d. 
struck down all state laws that required voters to show photo
identification before casting a ballot.
 Question 2
1 out of 1 points

What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

Selected a. 
Answer: a meeting in upstate New York during the mid-nineteenth century
regarding women’s rights
Answers: a. 
 a meeting in upstate New York during the mid-nineteenth century
regarding women’s rights
b. 
an important gathering that initiated the abolitionist movement
c. 
the convention where leaders of the Confederacy and the Union
negotiated the end of the Civil War
d. 
the convention that wrote and debated the Fourteenth Amendment
 Question 3
1 out of 1 points

Desegregating schools in northern states proved to be difficult because

Selected c. 
Answer: segregation in the North was generally de facto and hard to prove.
Answers: a. 
there was less tax revenue to fund integration efforts in the North.
b. 
discrimination in the South was so visible and pervasive that little
attention had been given to other parts of the country.
c. 
segregation in the North was generally de facto and hard to prove.
d. 
very few minorities lived in the North.
 Question 4
1 out of 1 points

Which of the following is true of Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?

Selected a. 
Answer: The Court outlawed de jure segregation.
Answers: a. 
The Court outlawed de jure segregation.
b. 
The Court allowed school systems to desegregate “with all deliberate
speed.”
c. 
The Court upheld the separate but equal doctrine.
d. 
The Court outlawed de facto segregation.
 Question 5
 1 out of 1 points

The ________ forbade workplace discrimination based on race.

Selected b. 
Answer: Civil Rights Act of 1964
Answers: a. 
Fourteenth Amendment
b. 
Civil Rights Act of 1964
c. 
Civil Rights Act of 1875
d. 
Nineteenth Amendment
 Question 6
1 out of 1 points

Under the “rational basis test,”

Selected b. 
Answer: the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show that there is no rational
basis, whatsoever, for the government’s rules.
Answers: a. 
government classification schemes are enacted only when a cost-
benefit analysis proves that they will help more people than they will
hurt.
b. 
the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show that there is no rational
basis, whatsoever, for the government’s rules.
c. 
courts determine whether to uphold government policies based on a
“rational” interpretation of the Constitution.
d. 
courts use a points-based formula for calculating whether the plaintiff or
the government bears the burden of proof.
 Question 7
1 out of 1 points

The Seneca Falls Convention was significant because it

Selected d. 
Answer: marked the starting point of the modern women’s movement.
Answers: a. 
led to the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
 amendments.
b. 
marked the starting point of the abolitionist movement.
c. 
marked the end of the modern women’s movement.
d. 
marked the starting point of the modern women’s movement.
 Question 8
1 out of 1 points

What is redlining?
Selected c. 
Answer: the practice of bank officials refusing to make loans to people living in
certain neighborhoods
Answers: a. 
the practice of drawing electoral districts that are biased against
minority groups
b. 
the practice of drawing school district boundaries in a way that
ensures segregated schools
c. 
the practice of bank officials refusing to make loans to people living in
certain neighborhoods
d. 
denying someone the right to vote by drawing a red line across his or
her name in the voter registry
 Question 9
1 out of 1 points

Before 1924, Native Americans

Selected d. 
Answer: were considered to be foreigners because their tribes were regarded
as separate nations.
Answers: a. 
were considered to be unauthorized immigrants, unless they lived on
reservations.
b. 
had the same legal status as any other citizen of the United States.
c. 
were federal citizens but not citizens of the states in which they lived.
 d. 
were considered to be foreigners because their tribes were regarded
as separate nations.
 Question 10
1 out of 1 points

In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress expanded the role of the executive branch
and the credibility of court orders by
Selected a. 
Answer: requiring that federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments for
education be withheld from any school system that practiced racial
segregation.
Answers: a. 
requiring that federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments for
education be withheld from any school system that practiced racial
segregation.
b. 
ordering the desegregation of the military.
c. 
creating a Department of Civil Rights.
d. 
mandating that the southern states racially gerrymander their legislative
districts to ensure that more African Americans were elected to
Congress.
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