Equal Protection quiz review

Laws common in the south (1877-1950s) that made African Americans use separate schools & public facilities

• separate but equal laws

• Jim Crow laws

• martial laws

• Southern laws

The idea that different public facilities for blacks & whites were constitutional is

• separate but equal

• Jim Crow laws

• separation of powers

• public facilities laws

"No state shall. . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protections of the laws." is the

• necessary & proper clause

• national supremacy clause

• equal protection clause

• expressed powers clause

This amendment ended slavery in 1865

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which amendment, passed in 1868, contains the equal protection clause?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

The most important Constitutional protection that people have against discrimination by state or local governments is the

• general welfare clause

• necessary & proper clause

• dependent clause

• equal protection clause

With the Brown v. Board of Education case, some people argued that

• separating black & white students sends the message that Black students are inferior.

• colleges shouldn't be segregated but K-12 schools should be.

• educating white & Black students together shouldn't matter since both races had excellent schools.

In Brown v. Board of Education (1954) the Supreme Court stated that segregation

• was legal.

• was legal in schools but not restaurants.

• took away people's 1st amendment rights.

• took away the 14th amendment's equal protection.

The Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision stated that

• separating kids by race helps them gain confidence.

• public schools needed to be integrated by 1964.

• all-white schools couldn't reject Black students.

Which court case led to the idea that "separate but equal" facilities were fine & established segregation in the U.S. for almost 60 years?

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education