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1
_____ was the first woman to run on the national ticket of a major political party.
A)Sandra Day O'Connor
B)Geraldine Ferraro
C)Dianne Feinstein
D)Barbara Boxer
E)Hillary Rodham Clinton
2
One area in which African Americans have made substantial progress since the 1960s
A)is elective office.
B)is in the penal system.
C)is in the judicial system.
D)is in the penal and judicial systems.
E)None of these answers is correct.
3
Women gained the right to vote in national elections in
A)1848.
B)1870.
C)1903.
D)1920.
E)1945.
4
Which region of the world has the highest percentage of national legislative seats held by women?
A)North America
B)Latin America
C)East Asia
D)Scandinavia
E)East Africa
5
Which of the following statements is true?
A)Women are more supportive than men of government programs for the poor.
B)Women are more supportive than men of government programs for children.
C)Women and men differ in their opinions and their votes.
D)Women tend to have a greater tendency to vote for Democratic candidates than men.
E)All these answers are correct.
6
The strict scrutiny test applies to
A)race.
B)ethnicity.
C)gender.
D)age.
E)race and ethnicity.
7
The average Latino or African American's income is about _____ percent of the average non-Hispanic white person's income.
A)10
B)20
C)40
D)60
E)80
8
According to Gunnar Myrdal, what is America's curse?
A)low voter turnout
B)greed
C)discrimination
D)alcoholism
E)pollution
9
What happened when federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877?
A)African Americans were treated the same as whites.
B)Laws were enacted that segregated the races.
C)In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court justices allowed separate and unequal treatment of African Americans.
D)Laws were enacted that segregated the races, and the Supreme Court, through the Plessy decision, tacitly allowed separate and unequal treatment of African Americans.
E)Racism came to an end in the South.
10
Congress made Native Americans official citizens of the United States in
A)1789.
B)1828.
C)1865.
D)1924.
E)1963.
11
In 2000, what did the Supreme Court justices rule with regard to the Boy Scouts?
A)The Boy Scouts organization could not ban gays from participating.
B)The Boy Scouts organization could ban gays from participating.
C)The Boy Scouts organization could not ban girls from participating.
D)The Boy Scouts organization could ban girls from participating.
E)None of these answers is correct.
12
In 2004, which state instituted same-sex marriage?
A)Vermont
B)Rhode Island
C)New York
D)California
E)None of these answers is correct.
13
The Supreme Court rejected the constitutionality of separate but equal facilities in
A)Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg County Board of Education.
B)Plessy v. Ferguson.
C)Milliken v. Bradley.
D)United States v. Virginia.
E)Brown v. Board of Education.
14
In the case of United States v. Virginia (1996) the Supreme Court ruled that
A)strict racial quotas were a valid means of ensuring racial diversity on college campuses.
B)private colleges could refuse to admit prospective students on the basis of sexual orientation.
C)male-only admissions policies at state-supported military academies were unconstitutional.
D)because female instructors created an undue distraction at all-male universities, the schools in question could discriminate against women in their hiring practices.
E)colleges affiliated with a particular religion could not take the religious persuasion of job candidates into consideration during the hiring process.
15
_____ is widely regarded as the most influential Latino leader in modern U.S. history.
A)Kiki de la Garza
B)Ben Nighthorse Campbell
C)Cesar Chavez
D)Loretta Sanchez
E)Alberto Gonzalez
16
African American men were granted suffrage in
A)1845.
B)1870.
C)1896.
D)1920.
E)1945.
17
_____ attacked Martin Luther King, Jr. and his followers with dogs, cattle prods, and fire hoses in 1963.
A)Strom Thurmond
B)George Wallace
C)Eugene "Bull" Connor
D)J. Edgar Hoover
E)Trent Lott
18
Which of the following is true about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
A)Congress approved the ERA in the early 1970s.
B)The ERA fell three states short of the three-fourths majority it needed to be ratified.
C)Congress approved the ERA in the 1970s, but it fell three states short of the three-fourths majority it needed to be ratified.
D)The ERA was ratified by only half of the states.
E)Congress rejected the ERA every time it came up for a vote.
19
Which of the following statements is true?
A)During the late 1800s, Chinese and Japanese laborers were brought into the western states to work in mines and to build railroads.
B)In 1930, Congress halted all immigration from Japan.
C)Discrimination against Asians did not ease substantially until 1965.
D)All of these are true: In the 1800s, Chinese and Japanese laborers were brought into the western states; in 1930 Congress halted all immigration from Japan; discrimination against Asians did not ease substantially until 1965.
E)Immigrants from Asia were always welcome in the United States in the twentieth century.
20
All disabled children were guaranteed a free, appropriate education in
A)1789.
B)1854.
C)1891.
D)1938.
E)1975.





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