POLITICAL SCIENCE 101 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
POLS101 final exam - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅study guide information
14th amendment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅contains "equal protection clause"
14th amendment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion. this law means that a WALL of separation exists between CHURCH and STATE
Brown v Board of education - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-OVERTURNED the "separate but equal" doctrine
in educational settings
-Supreme court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for blacks and whites to be
unconstitutional
Plessy v Ferguson - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-ENDORSED the "separate but equal" doctrine
-Plessy arrested for not sitting back of train
Chief Justice Earl Warren - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Delivered the opinion of the court for the Brown v
Board of Education case
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-outlawed major forms of discrimination against african
americans and women, including racial segregation
-ended school segregation
Congress entered the _________ by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅civil
rights movement
affirmative action - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅government policies or programs that make special efforts to
provide for minorities with injustices with education and employment
Strict Scrutiny test - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅used by supreme court, places burden proof on the
government rather than on the challengers to show that the law in question is constitutional
, are quotas in or out of education, and was decided from what case? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-OUT!!
QUOTAS ARE OUT OF EDUCATION
-bakke v uc davis
what was decided to help define diversity in school administration? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅supreme
court using "race as one of many factors" for helping define diversity in school adminstration is
ALLOWED!!! normally as a tie breaker
Allowed in college admissions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅race as a factor to increase diversity
-states can opt out of considering race as ANY factor (7 have done so)
not allowed in college admissions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅quota
Alan Bakke - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-challenged the use of affirmative action
-claimed uc violated the 14th amendments equal protection clause and the civil rights act of 1964 by
practicing affirmative action policy
-supreme court upheld the concept of affirmative action but made quotas not allowed in education
Jim Crow Laws - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅laws that discriminate against african americans
voting rights act of 1965 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had
been responsible for widespread disenfranchisement of african american in the us
-mandated "pre-clearance" (must have advanced approval by fed court) for any changes in state voting
procedures
recent changes made to the voting rights act of 1965 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅shelby county v holder
OVERTURNED the "pre-clearance"
-changed section 5 and 4b because unconstitutional
POLS101 final exam - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅study guide information
14th amendment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅contains "equal protection clause"
14th amendment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion. this law means that a WALL of separation exists between CHURCH and STATE
Brown v Board of education - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-OVERTURNED the "separate but equal" doctrine
in educational settings
-Supreme court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for blacks and whites to be
unconstitutional
Plessy v Ferguson - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-ENDORSED the "separate but equal" doctrine
-Plessy arrested for not sitting back of train
Chief Justice Earl Warren - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Delivered the opinion of the court for the Brown v
Board of Education case
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-outlawed major forms of discrimination against african
americans and women, including racial segregation
-ended school segregation
Congress entered the _________ by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅civil
rights movement
affirmative action - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅government policies or programs that make special efforts to
provide for minorities with injustices with education and employment
Strict Scrutiny test - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅used by supreme court, places burden proof on the
government rather than on the challengers to show that the law in question is constitutional
, are quotas in or out of education, and was decided from what case? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-OUT!!
QUOTAS ARE OUT OF EDUCATION
-bakke v uc davis
what was decided to help define diversity in school administration? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅supreme
court using "race as one of many factors" for helping define diversity in school adminstration is
ALLOWED!!! normally as a tie breaker
Allowed in college admissions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅race as a factor to increase diversity
-states can opt out of considering race as ANY factor (7 have done so)
not allowed in college admissions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅quota
Alan Bakke - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-challenged the use of affirmative action
-claimed uc violated the 14th amendments equal protection clause and the civil rights act of 1964 by
practicing affirmative action policy
-supreme court upheld the concept of affirmative action but made quotas not allowed in education
Jim Crow Laws - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅laws that discriminate against african americans
voting rights act of 1965 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had
been responsible for widespread disenfranchisement of african american in the us
-mandated "pre-clearance" (must have advanced approval by fed court) for any changes in state voting
procedures
recent changes made to the voting rights act of 1965 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅shelby county v holder
OVERTURNED the "pre-clearance"
-changed section 5 and 4b because unconstitutional
