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NEWEST ACTUAL COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) | ALREADY
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understanding tests ✔✔ANSWER✔✔tests requiring prospective voters in
some states to be able to explain the meaning of a passage of text or to
answer questions related to citizenship; often used as a way to
disenfranchise black voters
literacy tests ✔✔ANSWER✔✔tests that required the prospective voter in
some states to be able to read a passage of text and answer questions about
it; often used as a way to disenfranchise racial or ethnic minorities
Trail of Tears ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the name given to the forced migration of the
Cherokees from Georgia to Oklahoma in 1838-1839
American Indian Movement (AIM) ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the Native American civil
rights group responsible for the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota,
in 1973
Reconstruction ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the period from 1865 to 1877 during which
the governments of Confederate states were reorganized prior to being
readmitted to the Union
,Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the proposed amendment
to the Constitution that would have prohibited all discrimination based on
sex
grandfather clause ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the provision in some southern states
that allowed illiterate whites to vote because their ancestors had been able
to vote before the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified
disenfranchisement ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the revocation of someone's right to
vote
Title IX ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the section of the U.S. Education Amendments of
1972 that prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of sex
intermediate scrutiny ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the standard used by the courts to
decide cases of discrimination based on gender and sex; burden of proof is
on the government to demonstrate an important governmental interest is at
stake in treating men differently from women
strict scrutiny ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the standard used by the courts to decide
cases of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion;
burden of proof is on the government to demonstrate a compelling
governmental interest is at stake and no alternative means are available to
accomplish its goals
rational basis test ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the standard used by the courts to decide
most forms of discrimination; the burden of proof is on those challenging
, the law or action to demonstrate there is no good reason for treating them
differently from other citizens
affirmative action ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the use of programs and policies
designed to assist groups that have historically been subject to
discrimination
"white flight" ✔✔ANSWER✔✔White people fleeing from cities to suburbs to
avoid schools integrating through use of busing
Magna Carta ✔✔ANSWER✔✔1215 document King John signed promising
his subjects that he and future monarchs would refrain from certain actions
that harmed, or had the potential to harm, the people of England.
Seneca Falls Convention ✔✔ANSWER✔✔1848 convention held by Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott during which the Declaration of Sentiments
was drafted
Indian Reorganization Act ✔✔ANSWER✔✔1934 act which ended the
division of reservation land into allotments and returned to Native American
tribes the right to institute self-government on reservations, write
constitutions, and manage remaining land and resources. Also provided
funds for Native Americans to start their own businesses and attain a college
education
Korematsu v. U. S. ✔✔ANSWER✔✔1944 case in which Fred Korematsu
challenged the right of the government to imprison law-abiding citizens. The
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