Government Topic 9 Test

What is naturalization?

• legal process requiring a person to give up his or her citizenship
• legal process requiring an alien to leave a country
• legal process by which a person can become a citizen of another country
• legal process through which a person can legally live and work in another country

A native-born American citizen can lose his or her citizenship by

• voting in a foreign election.
• serving in another country's military.
• voluntarily abandoning citizenship.
• committing a crime.

Why are women labeled as a minority group?

• Women have only recently become recognized as being on an equal plane as men in the United States.
• Women are less numerous than the American male population.
• Women have played a lesser role in the economic, social, and political development of the country.
• Women have suffered the same types of discrimination as minority groups.

How are the discriminatory actions of the United States government towards Native Americans and Hispanic Americans similar?

• The U.S. government thought both groups were violent.
• The U.S. government desired both group's wealth.
• The U.S. government wanted to claim both group's land.
• The U.S. government found that both groups had undermined its authority.

The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education

• struck down laws that allowed separate public schools for white and African Americans.
• required that separate facilities for African Americans be equal to those provided for white Americans.
• held that Mexican Americans are also protected by the 14th Amendment.
• established the separate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities.

Which of the following has the Supreme Court found to be constitutional?

• barring women from jury duty
• requiring only men to register for the draft
• admitting only men to a military institute
• denying a law enforcement job to a woman based on gender

Court decisions that strike down laws or administrative policies that are considered to be reverse discrimination are based on

• the Court's recognition that social realities have changed over time.
• the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
• the political views of judges on a changing Court that is becoming more conservative over time.
• clarification from Congress that it considers reverse discrimination to be another form of discrimination.

The civil rights movement put pressure on Congress to push through the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 by

• attracting attention from the media with nonviolent protests.
• using the courts to force action from State legislatures and Congress.
• persuading the President and State governors to intervene in the process.
• convincing leaders in other countries to advise the United States to change its laws.

According to the information in the chart, citizenship would be granted to a child

• who was part of a group that was collectively naturalized.
• 16 years of age or older who was the child of naturalized parents.
• 18 years of age or older who was adopted by naturalized parents.
• who had naturalized parents and who had resided in the United States since the age of 16.

The efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his fellow civil rights workers resulted in

• the creation of a multiracial American society.
• little change for African Americans.
• great political change, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• a break in historical continuity that began in the years after the Civil War.