A) protect former slaves from discrimination in public accommodations such as hotels and theaters.
B) protect African Americans against disenfranchisement in the voting booth.
C) expand the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment to recent Asian immigrants.
D) protect women against disenfranchisement in the voting booth.
F) None of the above
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A) Atlanta
B) New Orleans
C) Boston
D) Dallas
F) A) and C)
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A) it was in New York-a state that had prohibited women from owning property throughout its history.
B) "liberty" had historically been represented as a male figure, not a female figure.
C) it was supposed to represent "liberty," yet women could not vote in the United States.
D) the statue wore clothes that were inappropriate for women during the time.
F) A) and B)
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A) reapportionment
B) gerrymandering
C) logrolling
D) redlining
F) B) and C)
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A) very few minorities lived in the North.
B) segregation in the North was generally de facto.
C) discrimination in the South was so visible and pervasive that little attention had been given to other parts of the country.
D) there was less tax revenue to fund integration efforts in the North.
F) B) and C)
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A) asserted that violations of Title IX of the 1972 Education Act could be remedied with monetary damages.
B) permitted public schools to experiment with gender segregation.
C) narrowed the free speech rights that students enjoyed at school.
D) ruled that busing was unconstitutional.
F) All of the above
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A) that immigrants carry identity papers
B) that local police check the immigration status of an individual detained for other reasons if there are grounds to suspect that the person was in the country illegally
C) that undocumented immigrants cannot apply for jobs
D) that police can stop persons they suspect of being undocumented immigrants
F) C) and D)
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A) made discrimination by state governments illegal but permitted discrimination by private employers.
B) ended some of the most blatant forms of discrimination across the country.
C) did not permit the Justice Department to implement federal court orders to desegregate schools.
D) was signed into law by President John F.Kennedy.
F) B) and C)
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A) literacy tests
B) restrictive covenants
C) open primaries
D) closed primaries
F) A) and D)
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A) does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, gender, or national origin.
B) is "broadly construed" to achieve a "constitutionally defined imperative."
C) eliminates all "negative externalities" in its attempt to achieve a "constitutionally defined imperative."
D) serves a "compelling interest," is "narrowly tailored to achieve that goal," and that the government has used the "least restrictive means" for achieving its compelling interest.
F) B) and C)
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A) A smaller percentage of African Americans registered to vote in southern states after passage of the Voting Rights Act.
B) A much larger percentage of whites registered to vote in southern states after passage of the Voting Rights Act.
C) The percentage of African Americans registering to vote did not change after passage of the Voting Rights Act.
D) The gap between the percentage of whites registering to vote and the percentage of African Americans registering to vote declined significantly after passage of the Voting Rights Act.
F) B) and D)
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A) the Exclusion Act was unconstitutional.
B) anyone born in the United States was entitled to be a citizen.
C) Asian American children could not go to school with white students.
D) the 1965 Immigration Act was unconstitutional.
F) All of the above
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A) expanded its school desegregation and busing rulings to apply even to cities that had never been found guilty of deliberate and de jure racial segregation.
B) restricted its school desegregation and busing rulings to apply only to cities found guilty of deliberate and de jure racial segregation.
C) declared busing as a strategy for desegregating schools unconstitutional under any circumstance.
D) did not rule on school desegregation and busing conflicts despite widespread controversy over their legality.
F) A) and C)
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A) required that states bus children from poor urban school districts to wealthier suburban ones.
B) were ruled constitutional in Brown v.Board of Education.
C) were struck down as unconstitutional in Brown v.Board of Education.
D) delayed desegregation efforts by authorizing school districts to place each pupil in a school according to a variety of academic, personal, and psychological considerations.
F) A) and B)
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A) the commerce clause
B) the Tenth Amendment
C) the Thirteenth Amendment
D) the Fourteenth Amendment
F) A) and C)
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A) Lucretia Mott
B) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C) Rosa Parks
D) Orbal Faubus
F) B) and C)
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A) a set of regulations determining which schools receive grants-in-aid from the federal government.
B) a test used by the Supreme Court that places the burden of proof partially on the government and partially on the challengers to show that the law in question is unconstitutional.
C) the apportionment of voters in districts in such a way as to give unfair advantage to one racial or ethnic group or political party.
D) a test used by the Supreme Court that places the burden of proof on the government rather than on the challengers to show that the law in question is constitutional.
F) A) and D)
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A) the practice of bank officials refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods
B) the practice of drawing electoral districts that are biased against minority groups
C) denying someone the right to vote by drawing a red line across his or her name in the voter registry
D) the practice of drawing school district boundaries in a way that ensures segregated schools
F) A) and C)
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A) allowed the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to initiate legal action in cases of housing discrimination.
B) required banks to lend in the neighborhoods in which they do business.
C) outlawed the practice of banks offering subprime mortgage products with higher interest rates to home buyers on the basis of race.
D) mandated that all property tax revenue would remain within local communities.
F) A) and D)
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