Political Science 101 - Introduction to Government » Winter 2022 » Quiz 4 Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

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Question #1
Civil liberties are rooted in what document?
A.   Magna Carta
B.   The Federalist Papers
C.   Bill of Rights
D.   Article I of the Consitution
E.   Declaration of Independence
Question #2
Civil liberties are absolute--the freedom of speech, habeas corpus, and due process--all represent personal freedoms which have never been suspended or otherwise infringed.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #3
Japanese Americans were freed from internment camps during WWII as a result of legal constitutional challenges and the fact that their internment fundamentally violated their civil liberties.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #4
Desegregation emerged as a result of the Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court case (1896) which ruled that the notion of 'separate but equal' has inherently unequal and unconstitutional.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #5
Plessy v Ferguson established ______________________________.
A.   the legality of slavery
B.   the legitimacy of poll taxes
C.   that Jim Crow laws were illegal
D.   the process of desegregation in the South
E.   the seperate but equal doctrine
Question #6
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are also known as the _______________________________.
A.   Jim Crow laws
B.   Reconstruction Amendents
C.   Articles of Confederation
D.   culmination of the Civil Rights Movement
E.   Bill of Rights
Question #7
The addition of civil rights to the Constitution was seen as natural and generally well-received. A broad national consensus embraced the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #8
By the 1950s, racial segregation was generally seen as outdated and morally objectionable. By the 1960s, nearly all state governments had moved independently to desegregate all aspects of civil society.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #9
Many Southerners pushed back against the economic redevelopment of the South following the Civil War.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #10
A ____________________________ was a Southerner who would be scorned for their perceived embrace of the new political order following the Civil War and Reconstruction.
A.   Yankee
B.   Carpetbagger
C.   Scalawag
D.   Rebel
Question #11
Rosa Parks is an important figure in the Civil Rights movement because she was the first to challenge segregation laws in the South.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #12
Proponents of states rights welcomed the role that the federal government played in desegregating institutions of civil society throughout the civil rights movement.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #13
The impact of civil liberties and civil rights in American political life is most often felt proportionately across various demographic groups.
A.   True
B.   False

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