WorksheetsAP Govt - AMSCO Ch 9
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Civil Rights
Protections from discrimination based on such characteristics as race, national origin, religion, and sex.
Limitations placed on the government; things the government can’t do that might interfere with your personal freedom.
Thirteenth Amendment
Outlawed slavery across the United States
Promised US citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the US; Due Process; Equal Protection
Prohibited states from denying the vote to anyone “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
Gave women the right to vote.
Fourteenth Amendment
Promised US citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the US; Due Process; Equal Protection
Outlawed slavery across the United States
Prohibited states from denying the vote to anyone “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
Gave women the right to vote.
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibited states from denying the vote to anyone “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
Outlawed slavery across the United States
Promised US citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the US; Due Process; Equal Protection
Gave women the right to vote.
A body of law created by states that segregated the races in the public sphere, such as trains, theaters, public restrooms, and public schools.
Jim Crow
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clause
Which of the following was not a way of circumventing the Fifteenth Amendment?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clause
SCOTUS sided with the state’s right to segregate the races in public places, claiming “separate but equal” facilities was constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
In a unanimous decision SCOTUS decided that “separate but equal” is inherently unequal.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
Which is not true about the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”?
The author was arrested for not obtaining a parade permit.
It was written by Martin Luther King Jr.
The author mentions police brutality, unjust treatment of blacks in the courts, and unsolved bombings of black homes and churches.
The author explains that a breaking point has occurred, and people can no longer wait for the injustices to end, they must actively practice nonviolent resistance.
This law empowered Congress and the federal government to oversee state elections in Southern states, effectively ended the literacy test, and was the single greatest improvement for African Americans in terms of access to the ballot box.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Fifteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Gave women the right to vote.
Outlawed slavery across the United States
Promised US citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the US; Due Process; Equal Protection
Prohibited states from denying the vote to anyone “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
Proposed amendment that stated, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied on account of sex,” which was introduced in every session of Congress from 1923-1972.
Equal Rights Amendment
Equal Gender Amendment
Feminism Amendment
Anti-Gender Discrimination Amendment
This prevented the military from asking about the private sexual status of its personnel but also by also prevented gays and lesbians from acknowledging or revealing it.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
Private Affairs Act
Which of the following is not true about the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)?
There was a clear partisan divide – Republicans supported it and Democrats were outspoken critics of the law.
It defined marriage at the national level and declared that states did not have to accept same-sex marriages recognized in other states.
It barred federal recognition of same-sex marriage for purposes of Social Security, federal income tax filings, and federal employee benefits.
It was rendered useless by Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).
This is the label placed on institutional efforts to diversify by race or gender.
Affirmative Action
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Minority Protections
Corrective Action
In this case each SCOTUS Justice wrote their own opinion but made it clear that the concept of Affirmative Action was permitted, provided the assisted group had suffered from past discrimination and the state has a compelling governmental interest in assisting this group.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
