M1L2 Practice

Read the reference article about the equal protection clause. Originally, 'equal protection' was meant to apply to

• Free men and women

• Every U.S. citizen

• Recently freed former slaves

• Free men

Read the reference article about the equal protection clause. The Supreme Court combined the words and spirit of these two amendments to guarantee equal protection for all people in the United States:

• Fifth and Tenth

• Fifth and Fourteenth

• First and Fifth

• Fourteenth and Twenty-sixth

Read the excerpt on the reference article about the equal protection clause. After the Brown decision, the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment has broadened to include

• Racial minorities only

• Any identifiable group

• The descendants of former slaves

• Women only

Civil rights are those rights that are applied to

• Minority groups that have experienced past discrimination.

• All citizens.

• All people of a certain group within society.

• All people 18 and older.

The constitutional amendment that has played a key role in clarifying equality before the law is

• 13th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

The term "Jim Crow" originally grew out of

•   Takes of an African American folk hero popular among slaves.

• The Southern governor responsible for the first way of segregation laws.

• The name of the chief justice of the Supreme Court who championed segregation.

• Musical shows performed by whites portraying African Americans in a negative manner.

Read the excerpt from the black codes of Mississippi (1865). Which of the following is most accurate regarding African Americans and lawsuits in Mississippi?

• African Americans could bring lawsuits but were not eligible to receive financial restitution.

• African Americans were allowed to bring lawsuits against white people.

• No African American was allowed to charge a white person with a crime.

• African Americans were only free to bring lawsuits against other African Americans.

Read the excerpt from the black codes of Mississippi (1865). Once a year, each African American in Mississippi was required to

• Provide one day of unpaid labor to the community.

• Pay an annual freedman's tax.

• Show proof of legal residence and employment in writing.

• Renew an oath of allegiance to the state.

Read the excerpt from the black codes of Mississippi (1865). The punishment for a white person who marries a person of African American descent was

• A small fine

• Exile outside the state of Mississippi

• Loss of civic rights normally offered to white citizens

• Life in prison

Southern whites did all of the following to prevent African Americans from voting except

• They created literacy tests.

• They used threats of violence against potential African American voters.

• They implemented special voting taxes.

• They passed local laws making it illegal for African Americans to vote in certain communities.