Civil Rights Quiz

Which court case ruled the separation of races does not violated the Constitution?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Bakke v. California

All of the following are considering barriers for African Americans to vote EXCEPT

• blood test

• poll tax

• literacy test

• white primaries

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 5

• 15

• 19

• 27

What is the term for a policy in admissions or hiring that gives special consideration to traditionally disadvantaged groups to overcome the present effects of past discrimination?

• civil rights

• civil liberties

• affirmative action

• legislative mandate

What is the term refers to what the government must do as far as ensuring equal protection and freedom from discrimination?

• civil rights

• civil liberties

• civil air patrol

• civil actions

What was created to fund a Civil Rights Commission to monitor Civil Rights violations?

• voting rights act of 1965

• civil rights act of 1968

• civil rights act of 1964

• Civil liberties of 1964

What term states that no state can deny basic rights to its people and must act fairly according to the law, per the 14th amendment?

• establishment

• due process

• enurmerated

• supremacy

What is the name for the laws that discriminated against people because of their race?

• Southern

• Slavery

• Jim Crow

• Integration

The decisions in Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade rely on implied right to

• marriage
• raising a family
• privacy
• free love

What law banned employer discrimination?

• Voting Rights Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Poll Tax Act

• 24th Amendment