POLS 1100 MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE 5-6 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

POLS 1100 MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE 5-6 UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. According to the Preamble to the Constitution, what is the central purpose of representative
government?
Answer:
To guard and protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens.

Question:
2. The fundamental guarantees ensuring qual treatment and protecting against discrimination under the
laws of a nation are called?
Answer:
Civil Rights

Question:
3. Unlike civil liberties, civil-rights require?
Answer:
Positive action

Question:
4. I the 1950's, Judith Heurmann was refused attendance to her local elementary school for?
Answer:
Causing a potential fire hazard

Question:
5. Legal separation is best defined as?
Answer:
The separation of individuals based upon their racial identities, by law.

Question:
6. In which Supreme Sourt case were slaves, former slaves, and their descendants deemed property and not
citizens?
Answer:
Scott v. Sandford

Question:
7. Which of the following amendments prohibited slavery in the United States?
Answer:
13th

Question:
8. Which Amendment to the Constitution allowed Congress to make laws necessary to affirm the voting
rights of all freed men?

, Answer:
15th

Question:
9. Laws passed by southern states in order to preserve segregation and prevent African American men
from exercising their 15th Amendment right to vote were called?
Answer:
Jim Crow Laws

Question:
10. Which of the following would be an example of a Jim Crow Law?
Answer:
Literacy Tests

Question:
11. In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court uphold the constitutionality of legalized racial
segregation?
Answer:
Scott v. Sanford

Question:
12. In the case of Missouri's ex real Gains v. Canada, the Supreme Court?
Answer:
Called for the immediate desegregation of Missouri's law school program.

Question:
13. The case of Brown v. Board of Education was responsible for overturning which of the following
Supreme Court decisions?
Answer:
Plessy v. Ferguson

Question:
14. According to your text, the act of eliminating laws or practices that intentionally separate individuals
based upon personal characteristics such as racial identity is defined as?
Answer:
Desegregation

Question:
15. In 1957 what did President Eisenhower do in order to enforce a desegregation order in Little Rock,
Arkansas?
Answer:
Sent Federal troops

Question:
16. The intentional refusal to obey a law in order to call attention to its injustice is defined as?
Answer:
Civil Disobedience