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WorksheetsESBR AP GOV - Civil Rights 2023
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 14mins
What amendment banned slavery?
12th
13th
18th
24th
Where is "equality" mentioned in the Republic's founding documents?
A. 14th amendment
B. Preamble to the Constitution
C. Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
A & C
Which of these is not a consensus part of US political culture?
Equality of rights
Equality before the laws
Equal distribution of income
Equality of opportunity
What amendment banned racial limits on voting?
19th
21st
15th
14th
What amendment was the basis of selective incorporation?
10th
14th
17th
15th
What amendment protects citizens from their state governments infringing on their due process rights?
14th
10th
22nd
23rd
What clause has been cited as the basis of many civil rights-related Supreme Court rulings?
Free Exercise
Establishment
Elastic / Necessary and Proper
Equal protection
What court case established the doctrine of "separate but equal"?
Slaughterhouse cases
Korematsu v. US
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board
The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education is NOT an example of what?
Stare Decisis
Judicial Activism
Applying the 14th amendment
A Unanimous Decision
After the ratification of the Amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote, how long did it take for all to *de facto* (actually) have the right to vote?
About ten years
About one hundred years
About thirty years
Almost immediately
What is the goal of civil liberties?
To protect individuals from their neighbor
To protect groups from discrimination
To protect individuals from government power
To ensure equality among all groups
What do civil rights protections primarily involve?
Protection from government abuses of power
Protections of disadvantaged groups from discrimination
Protecting national sovereignty
Protecting the autonomy of state governments
Brown v. Board formally ended segregation in what kind of facility?
Private businesses
Public schools
Public transportation
Graduate and professional schools
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were all ratified after what event?
The end of the US Revolutionary War
The end of the US Civil War
The end of Reconstruction
The end of Westward expansion
Which of the following was NOT designed to keep African Americans from voting during Jim Crow?
Poll taxes
White primaries
Literacy tests
Residency requirements
What ended poll taxes?
the 23rd amendment
the 24th amendment
the Voting Rights Act
a US Supreme Court decision
What ended literacy tests?
the Voting Rights Act
the Civil Rights Act
the 25th amendment
the 24th amendment
The 23rd amendment...
Gave residents of Washington DC the right to vote in all federal elections
Gave residents of Washington DC the status of living in a US state
Gave residents of Washington DC fair representation in the US Congress
Gave residents of Washington DC the right to elect exactly three electors to the Electoral College
What share of the Justices in the Brown v. Board decision were from the South?
None
One of nine
Three of nine
All of them
True or False: The President who signed the most important civil rights legislation was from the South.
True
False
What was true for African American middle class travelers in the 1940s and 1950s before the Civil Rights Act?
They could easily travel anywhere in the country
No towns or counties had laws that could lead to their imprisonment if they were driving at night
They used the Green Book to know where they could get gas, stay at a hotel or eat at a restaurant
Private businesses like hotels and gas stations could not refuse to sell them services
How did segregation in the military end?
An executive order from President Truman desegregated the military in 1948.
Congress passed a law ending segregation in the military
The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional
The military was integrated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964
True or False: Most Southern Senators and Representatives voted against the Civil Rights Act in 1964
True
False
True or False: the Civil Rights Act was passed on a party-line vote with only Democrats supporting it.
True
False
