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Questions

1. An explanation for why women remain underrepresented in some areas of employment and are paid less than male counterparts doing the same work is known as what?

affirmative action
de facto segregation
suffrage
the glass ceiling

2. Which of the following is a federal law passed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which broadened the federal government's ability to monitor electronic communications and made it easier for law enforcement to obtain search warrants.

Miranda Act
USA PATRIOT Act
Civil Rights Act
Electronic Communications Act

3. The ability of the government to take private property for public purposes is known as what?

prior restraint
eminent domain
blue laws
free exercise

4. Which is true of civil rights?

They are the same as civil liberties.
They guarantee freedom from arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by the government.
They include a specific right to privacy.
They led to the eradication of segregation in schools.

5. Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishes the right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures by the federal government?

Amendment 4
Amendment 6
Amendment 9
Amendment 10

6. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in which case below that all individuals accused of a serious crime are entitled to an attorney, even if they cannot afford one, as a part of the due process right to a fair trial.

Olmstead v. United States (1928)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

7. Which case was the landmark civil rights decision that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson's (1896) separate but equal requirement for public education?

Brown v. Board of Education for Topeka (1954)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
Bakke v. California (1978)

8. Which is true of equal treatment?

It applies only in the judicial system.
It is limited to ethnicity and race.
It is a government protection applying only to disabled veterans.
It is a requirement of the government to all citizens.

9. Which Constitutional doctrine ensures that states cannot enact laws that take away the Constitutional rights of American citizens who are protected by the Bill of Rights?

Selective incorporation
Establishment Clause
Undue burden test
Prior restraint

10. In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court determine that burning the American flag was protected speech?

Gitlow v. New York (1919)
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)