POLI 2051 Hogan Exam 1 Question and Answer
[2026] | UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | A+ Verified
• The civil rights movement pushed for racial equality. When did this movement
begin? -✓✓ in the 1950s
• The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees citizens the right to vote regardless of
__________ -✓✓ race
• The Fourteenth Amendment attempted to guarantee which of the following to
former slaves? -✓✓ citizenship rights
• What provision of the Fourteenth Amendment serves as a cornerstone of
struggles to win equality for certain groups? -✓✓ the equal protection clause
• The freedom riders used civil disobedience to help end which form of
discrimination in the South? -✓✓ racial segeration
• What was Reconstruction? -✓✓ the period after the Civil War when the South
was occupied by the federal government
• What strategy did the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) successfully use to fight against school segregation? -✓✓
ligitation
• Who had to pay poll taxes? -✓✓ voters
, • When did women win the constitutionally guaranteed right to vote? -✓✓ decades
after black males won the right to vote
• Why did Congress pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965? -✓✓ because it was clear
that the South had no intention of living up to the spirit of the Fifteenth
Amendment
• A false and malicious written statement could be considered __________; the
same statement spoken aloud could be considered __________. -✓✓ libel, slander
• In the 1960s, the Supreme Court aroused the wrath of many Americans with
rulings like that in Engel v. Vitale regarding which controversial religious issue? -
✓✓ recitation of prayer and Bible passages in school
• New York Times v. Sullivan held that there must be proof of which of the
following in order to find libel against a public figure? -✓✓ actual malice
• The Bill of Rights is made up of the first __________ amendments to the U.S.
Constitution. -✓✓ 10
• The Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of a Connecticut law that
prohibited the use of contraception by relying on the implied right to __________.
-✓✓ privacy
• The Supreme Court has used incorporation to __________ the authority of states.
-✓✓ limit
[2026] | UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | A+ Verified
• The civil rights movement pushed for racial equality. When did this movement
begin? -✓✓ in the 1950s
• The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees citizens the right to vote regardless of
__________ -✓✓ race
• The Fourteenth Amendment attempted to guarantee which of the following to
former slaves? -✓✓ citizenship rights
• What provision of the Fourteenth Amendment serves as a cornerstone of
struggles to win equality for certain groups? -✓✓ the equal protection clause
• The freedom riders used civil disobedience to help end which form of
discrimination in the South? -✓✓ racial segeration
• What was Reconstruction? -✓✓ the period after the Civil War when the South
was occupied by the federal government
• What strategy did the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) successfully use to fight against school segregation? -✓✓
ligitation
• Who had to pay poll taxes? -✓✓ voters
, • When did women win the constitutionally guaranteed right to vote? -✓✓ decades
after black males won the right to vote
• Why did Congress pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965? -✓✓ because it was clear
that the South had no intention of living up to the spirit of the Fifteenth
Amendment
• A false and malicious written statement could be considered __________; the
same statement spoken aloud could be considered __________. -✓✓ libel, slander
• In the 1960s, the Supreme Court aroused the wrath of many Americans with
rulings like that in Engel v. Vitale regarding which controversial religious issue? -
✓✓ recitation of prayer and Bible passages in school
• New York Times v. Sullivan held that there must be proof of which of the
following in order to find libel against a public figure? -✓✓ actual malice
• The Bill of Rights is made up of the first __________ amendments to the U.S.
Constitution. -✓✓ 10
• The Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of a Connecticut law that
prohibited the use of contraception by relying on the implied right to __________.
-✓✓ privacy
• The Supreme Court has used incorporation to __________ the authority of states.
-✓✓ limit
