CHAPTER 6 Civil Rights

CHAPTER 6 Civil Rights

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MULTIPLE CHOICE

An example of a difference in treatment toward certain groups that qualifies as reasonable is

a.	classifying people according to race.
b.	taxing different classes at different rates.
c.	classifying people according to ethnic group.
d.	testing for AIDS according to class.
e.	classifying people according to religion.

ANS: B REF: 122 NOT: A OBJ: LO1

a.	Laws cannot make distinctions among people.
b.	Laws cannot discriminate.
c.	Laws must treat everyone equally.
d.	Laws can treat different people differently, but such differences must be reasonable.
e.	Laws can discriminate as long as they do not make distinctions.

ANS: D REF: 122 NOT: C OBJ: LO4

a.	improving the number of blacks enrolled in college.
b.	decreasing the white-black poverty gap.
c.	increasing the number of black homeowners.
d.	failing to decrease the black-white unemployment ratio.
e.	All of the above are correct.

ANS: E REF: 122, 123 NOT: F OBJ: LO1

The _________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution appeared to guarantee equal rights for blacks.

ANS: B REF: 125 NOT: F OBJ: LO1

a.	that the “privileges and immunities” clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect citizens from discriminatory actions by state governments.
b.	that separate facilities were acceptable as long as they were equal.
c.	that segregation is unconstitutional.
d.	that the literacy test is acceptable.
e.	that juries cannot be all of one race.

ANS: A REF: 125 NOT: F OBJ: LO1

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