Chapter_6_Civil_Rights

Chapter_6_Civil_Rights

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

1. An example of a difference in treatment toward certain groups that qualifies as reasonable is
2. classifying people according to
3. taxing different classes at different
4. classifying people according to ethnic
5. testing for AIDS according to
6. classifying people according to

ANSWER:                           b

REFERENCES:                   Race and Civil Rights

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.6.1 – LO6.1

2. Which statement best summarizes the pertinent question of civil rights?
3. Laws cannot make distinctions among
4. Laws cannot
5. Laws must treat everyone
6. Laws can treat different people differently, but such differences must be
7. Laws can discriminate as long as they do not make

ANSWER:                           d

REFERENCES:                   Race and Civil Rights

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.6.1 – LO6.1

3. The National Urban League has credited civil rights laws for
4. improving the number of blacks enrolled in
5. decreasing the white-black poverty
6. increasing the number of black
7. failing to decrease the black-white unemployment
8. all of these choices are

ANSWER:                           e

REFERENCES:                   Race and Civil Rights

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.6.1 – LO6.1

4. The _________ Amendment to the S. Constitution appeared to guarantee equal rights for blacks.
5. First
6. Fourteenth
7. Twenty-first
8. Twenty-fifth
9. Twenty-sixth

ANSWER:                           b

REFERENCES:                   Race and Civil Rights

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.6.1 – LO6.1

5. In the Slaughter-House Cases (1873), the Supreme Court ruled
   1. that the “privileges and immunities” clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect citizens from discriminatory actions by state
6. that separate facilities were acceptable as long as they were
7. that segregation is
8. that the literacy test is
9. that juries cannot be all of one

ANSWER:                           a

REFERENCES:                   Race and Civil Rights

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.6.1 – LO6.1