Which of the following accurately describes how the issue of slavery influenced the development of civil rights?

The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees

During the late nineteenth century, the equal protection clause was

Restrictive covenants were

When racial segregation in schools is the result of hundreds of thousands of housing choices made by individuals and families rather than the result of law, it is referred to as

Strict scrutiny refers to

If a bank offers loans at rates well above market averages to African American and Latino home buyers, and does so with complex provisions that borrowers may not fully understand, the bank could be sued for

The Black Lives Matter movement has many goals, but it was first started in Ferguson, Missouri, in order to

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution

In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the Supreme Court

Why did the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) rely primarily on the courts to press for Black political rights in its early years?

The Supreme Court first began to weaken support for legal racial discrimination in the

Which of the following best summarizes the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?

It was during the tenure of Chief Justice ________ that the Supreme Court established gender discrimination as a highly visible area of civil rights law.

The Equal Rights Amendment failed to pass because it

Which of the following are names of Latino civil rights organizations?

Which of the following provisions of Arizona’s 2010 immigration law was upheld by the Supreme Court?

Before 1924, Native Americans

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Mendez v. Westminster (1947) was significant because

Strict scrutiny places the burden of proof on the government to show that a law’s classification scheme

As a result of a Supreme Court decision in 1995, affirmative action policies are now subject to ________ scrutiny.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964’s ban on racial discrimination in privately owned businesses was justified on the basis of which constitutional provision?

Women’s rights advocates called the Statue of Liberty “the greatest hypocrisy of the nineteenth century” because

How did the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision help to precipitate the Civil War?

What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 attempted to

The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

After World War II, which government institution took the lead in addressing reports of discrimination against Black soldiers?

In terms of combating racism, the NAACP had the most success with

Imagine a neighborhood in a suburb that is known for its strong school system. Houses in the area are very expensive, and substantially above the ability for someone making the average annual salary for the surrounding communities. Ninety-five percent of homes in the neighborhood are currently owned by White individuals. This is an example of

The Montgomery bus boycott began after ________ refused to give up her seat for a White man.

Suppose several states enact voter ID laws in the run up to an election. How might this policy change affect minority and non-White voter turnout?

How did the Court’s decision in Loving v. Virginia influence the Court’s later support for same-sex marriage?

The Black Lives Matter protests started in

“Massive resistance” was the name given to

During a presidential primary election debate Senator Kamala Harris noted that, as a child, she was bused to a school in a different neighborhood than her own. The goal of school busing was to

One step taken toward achieving desegregation of public schools was

What occurs when electoral districts are drawn so that one group or party is unfairly advantaged?

The Seneca Falls Convention was significant because it

The Reconstruction era came to an end because

President Harry S. Truman was moved to bring the problem of racial discrimination to the nation’s attention by

In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the Supreme Court determined that

Which of the following is true of Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?

What level of scrutiny do federal judges generally apply to cases involving gender discrimination?

Which of the following contains the sentence, “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”?

In 2011, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued a “Dear Colleague” letter to the more than 7,000 colleges and universities receiving federal funding that told colleges to

________ was the leader of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a policy that

In 1870, Congress passed a law forbidding ________ immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens.

The rights of disabled individuals to access public businesses is guaranteed by the

In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the Supreme Court

Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools (1992) is important because it

Which of the following has been most important in encouraging groups and individuals to convert their grievances into questions of rights and of the deprivation of those rights?

The phrase “levels of scrutiny” refers to the

The Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) was significant because it

Which group was not permitted to immigrate to the United States from the late nineteenth century until the 1940s?

Under the “rational basis test,”

Which of the following are the Civil War amendments?