Quiz 2 Chapters 4, 5, and 6

A  every person in the target population who is encountered is selected.

B  researchers decide how many persons of certain types they need in the survey.

C  the poll is unscientific.

D  there is no pre-planning in the selection process.

E  every person in the target population has an equal chance of being selected.

A  Cuban Americans are more likely to support Republicans than Democrats.

B  Muslim Americans of Middle Eastern ancestry tend to be culturally conservative.

C  Overall, Hispanics have favored the Democrats.

D  most African Americans have supported the Republican Party since the 1960s.

E  Asian American groups have usually leaned toward the Democrats, but often by narrow margins.

A  vote for candidates that are politically conservative.

B  be similar to the overall population in political preferences.

C  vote at a lower rate than Protestants.

D  be more liberal than average on economic and cultural issues.

E  focus almost totally on domestic issues.

A  strongly; Libertarian

B  strongly; Republican

C  weakly; Democratic

D  strongly; Democratic

E  moderately; Democratic

A  agenda setting.

B  consensus building.

C  opinion leadership.

D  political socialization.

E  peer grouping.

A  parents.

B  classroom peers.

C  grandparents.

D  babysitters.

E  next door neighbors.

A  it can be expressed by physical letters or emails written to newspapers.

B  it can be a powerful resource for politicians and campaign managers.

C  it is shared in online forums.

D  it plays a small role in our political system.

E  it can be used by media members to write news stories that Americans want.

A  in 1969, following a riot that broke out when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a New York gay bar.

B  with the growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s.

C  when gay veterans of World War II organized in the 1950s.

D  in 1996, with the campaign for same-sex marriage.

E  in 1986, with a campaign against sodomy laws.

A  colleges and universities could consider race when deciding whom to admit but could not establish racial quotas.

B  quota systems are constitutional.

C  all affirmative action programs were ruled unconstitutional.

D  race cannot be considered as a factor at all in making admissions decisions.

E  affirmative action programs were allowable in law schools but not to be utilized in medical schools.

A  immigrants who are not citizens have fewer rights than any other identifiable group in the U.S.

B  the Supreme Court has ruled that constitutional guarantees apply to every person in the U.S.

C  Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans have the same rights as all other Americans.

D  the Supreme Court has stated that Congress may make rules as to “aliens” (undocumented residents) that would be unacceptable if applied to citizens.

E  protections in the Bill of Rights are limited only to those who are U.S. citizens.

A  violates Title IV.

B  is sexual harassment.

C  is gender discrimination.

D  violates the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

E  is considered illegal if engaged in by a private corporation but acceptable if engaged in by the government.

A  that the number of African Americans registered to vote declined dramatically.

B  the elimination of discriminatory voter registration tests.

C  state governments passing laws that allowed considerable discrimination toward ethnic minorities.

D  dozens of federal court decisions stating that it was not within the power of Congress to dictate to the states how they should conduct their elections.

E  a constitutional amendment changing the voting age.

A  The philosophy of Dr. King was to fight back when being attacked or confronted by whites. The bus boycott in Montgomery failed in its attempt to help integration.

B  Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, an action which led to a bus boycottt. The Civil Rights Movement was led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

C  The bus boycott in Montgomery failed in its attempt to help integration.

D  The philosophy of Dr. King was to fight back when being attacked or confronted by whites.

A  separation of races for a reason such as education is not a violation of the Constitution.

B  public school segregation of races violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and leads to feelings of inferiority among African American school children.

C  African Americans could not be denied the right to a college education.

D  the national government does not have the power to force any type of action on local school boards.

E  ethnic minorities have no rights to equal treatment by the government.

A  stated that schools may not practice any type of racial segregation.

B  ruled that African Americans are not persons for the purposes of the Constitution.

C  ruled that the practice of slavery must cease before the end of the century.

D  tried to stop the development of legal racial segregation known as Jim Crow laws.

E  agreed that separation of races is not a violation of the Constitution.

A  proclaim that all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States.

B  state that the right to vote shall not be abridged on account of race.

C  dictate that no state shall deny any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

D  provide that no state shall deny any person equal protection of the laws.

E  provide that no state shall deprive individuals of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by citizens of the United States.

A  Thomas Jefferson drew on the ideas of John Locke to express the colonists’ belief that they had certain inalienable or natural rights.

B  civil liberties are limitations on the government—what government cannot do.

C  civil rights specify what government must do to ensure freedom from discrimination.

D  civil rights refer to the rights of Americans to equal protection under the law.

E  civil liberties and civil rights are the exact same thing.

A  a form of civil rights for indigents.

B  another word for slander.

C  the amount of insurance one must have on a motor vehicle.

D  printed material that cannot be proved true.

E  defamation of character in written form.

A  it does not deal with a political question.

B  and only if the United States is at war.

C  it is found to be offensive to religious organizations.

D  evidence exists that such expression would cause a condition that would endanger the public or lead to an incitement of violence.

E  the speaker is not a citizen of the United States.

A  all the above.

B  has been applied to questions of the legality of state and local government aid to religious organizations and schools.

C  has been used to decide the actions of government allowing or prohibiting school prayer.

D  means that neither the federal government nor state governments can set up a church.

E  is different than the free exercise clause.

A  has been applied to all of the Bill of Rights.

B  allows states’ equal rights.

C  allows the federal government to give licenses to corporations.

D  holds the view that most of the protections of the Bill of Rights apply to state and local governments’ activities through the Fourteenth Amendment.

E  established the precedent for eminent domain.

A  only after the impeachment of various justices was debated in Congress.

B    

C  only in 1940, in a case dealing with freedom of religion.

D  immediately.

E  only in 1880, in cases dealing with criminal procedure.

F  beginning in 1897 when the Supreme Court began to realize that various provisions of the Bill of Rights protecting fundamental liberties must also be upheld by the states.

A  codify the right to privacy.

B  apply the Bill of Rights to the state and local governments.

C  establish the supremacy doctrine.

D  abolish slavery.

E  protect individuals’ freedom of religion.

A  limited only the power of state governments.

B  protected citizens from all forms of government.

C  protected citizens from the national and state governments, but not from local governments.

D  limited only the power of the national government, not that of the states.

E  contained no language on religion.

A  are not particularly important in the United States.

B  limit government actions against individuals.

C  are a threat to libertarians.

D  allow the government the freedom or liberty to do what is necessary to run the country.

E  none of the above.