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Political ScienceAmerican GovernmentAmerican Government and PoliticsPractice Set 16
Political ScienceAmerican GovernmentAmerican Government and PoliticsPractice Set 16Civil Rights
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Question 1
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Today, there are approximately __________ unauthorized immigrants living in the United States.
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11 million
111 million
200 million
1 million
35 million
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Question 2
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If the United States deported most of the unauthorized immigrants,
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the government would need to hire hundreds of thousands of additional immigration officers.
new prisons would need to be built.
expenditures would increase by billions of dollars per year.
other government programs would need to be cut to fund the initiative.
All of the above are true.
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Question 3
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The impact of illegal immigrant labor on the economy is
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positive because the number of the jobs in the economy are not fixed.
positive because immigrants spend money on goods and services.
negative because immigrants require services paid for by taxpayers.
positive because immigrants pay state taxes.
All of the above are true.
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Question 4
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Which of the following regarding immigration is true?
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Today, most immigrants to the United States come from Europe.
Major issues include debate about whether illegal immigrants should be given amnesty and be allowed to become U.S. citizens.
The number of multiracial persons has been declining in recent years.
All Hispanics are from Mexico.
Options C and D are true.
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Question 5
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The term civil rights refers to
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the rights of all Americans provided for in the Fourteenth Amendment.
civil liberties like freedom of religion, speech or assembly.
what the government must do to ensure freedom from discrimination.
limitations on what the government may not do to interfere with individual liberties.
Options A and C are true.
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Question 6
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Civil rights
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include women's rights.
resulted in legislation that secured basic rights for all Americans.
have not always been accorded to certain groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, women, and older Americans.
are concerned with protecting groups from discrimination.
All the above are true.
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Question 7
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
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abolished slavery.
forced states to alter their constitutions to end slavery by making the children of slave free while allowing slavery for existing slaves.
mandated that all persons "will be treated as total equals from this date forward."
allowed slavery to continue for twenty years at which time it would be ended.
allowed slavery but banned the importation of slaves immediately.
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Question 8
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The Thirteenth Amendment
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ended slavery but not involuntary servitude.
provides that all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States.
does not apply to illegal immigrants.
provides that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the United States.
All of the above are true.
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Question 9
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The American Indian population declined mostly due to
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infectious diseases from the Old World.
the French and Indian War.
intertribal warfare and murder.
westward territorial expansion by the Native Americans throughout the nineteenth century.
All of the above are true.
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Question 10
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Today there are __________ Native Americans living in the United States.
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30 million
13 million
800 thousand
3.2 million
300 million
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Question 11
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The Civil Rights Acts passed by Congress between 1865 and1875
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were designed to enforce the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
implemented the extension of citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
made it illegal to use law or custom to deprive anyone of rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution.
declared that everyone is entitled to full and equal enjoyment of public accommodations.
All of the above are true.
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Question 12
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The Fifteenth Amendment provides that
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citizens will not be denied the right to vote based on skin color.
children born in the United States will be granted U.S. citizenship.
slavery and involuntary servitude would end.
the right to vote will not be denied on the basis of religion or gender.
the right to vote shall be determined by state laws.
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Question 13
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The Fifteenth Amendment
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outlawed slavery.
provided equal protection under the law.
gave eighteen-year-olds the right to vote.
states that the right to vote shall not be abridged on account of race.
gave women the right to vote.
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Question 14
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After the Civil War, civil rights legislation was passed by Congress
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but much of it was very ineffective and parts were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
and it played a major role in creating equality for African Americans.
and was accepted by the American public.
that prevented African Americans from being extended equal public accommodations.
All of the above are true.
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Question 15
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In 1896, the United States Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson
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ruled that African Americans are not persons for the purposes of the Constitution.
tried to stop the development of legal racial segregation known as Jim Crow laws.
stated that schools may not practice any type of racial segregation.
agreed that separation of races is not a violation of the Constitution.
ruled that the practice of slavery must cease before the end of the century.
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Question 16
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The white primary in southern states allowed
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all races to participate in elections on an equal basis.
whites to exclude African Americans from voting in Democratic primaries.
voters to select ballots for each party based on different skin colors.
African Americans the opportunity to vote for the first time.
whites to exclude African Americans from voting in the general elections.
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Question 17
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In the 1944 case of Smith v. Allwright, the United States Supreme Court ruled the _________ to be a violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.
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literacy test
poll tax
grandfather clause
white primary
black primary
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Question 18
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The tests commonly administered as a precondition for voting were called
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poll tests.
constitutional exams.
literacy tests.
primary tests.
registration tests.
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Question 19
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A poll tax was used to
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prevent northern immigrants from moving to the South and voting in local elections.
determine who was intelligent enough to vote.
dissuade African Americans and poor whites from voting.
force individuals to buy property in order to be eligible to vote.
raise funds for voter registration among the minority community.
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Question 20
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In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court held that
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ethnic minorities have no rights to equal treatment by the government.
public school segregation of races violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
the national government does not have the power to force any type of action on local school boards.
separation of races for a reason such as education is not a violation of the Constitution.
African Americans could not be denied the right to a college education.
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