PAC FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2024/2025
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PAC FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2024/2025
Dred Scott v. Stanford - ANSWERSCourt case that declared that an African American can not be a citizen and that the Missouri compromise is unconstitutional.
13th Amendment - ANSWERSAmendment that abolishes slavery
14th Amendmen...
PAC FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2024/2025
Dred Scott v. Stanford - ANSWERSCourt case that declared that an African American can not be a citizen
and that the Missouri compromise is unconstitutional.
13th Amendment - ANSWERSAmendment that abolishes slavery
14th Amendment - ANSWERSAmendment that states: If you are born in the U.S you are a citizen. People
can not be deprived life, liberty, or property based on race without due process.
15th Amendment - ANSWERSAmendment that grants voting rights to African Americans
Jim Crow Statutes - ANSWERSLaws that created strict segregation in churches, schools, housing, jobs,
eating and drinking, sports, hospitals, orphanages, asylums, funeral homes, etc.
De jure discrimination - ANSWERSLegal discrimination (discrimination by law)
De facto discrimination - ANSWERSNot legal discrimination (discrimination by practice)
Plessy v. Ferguson - ANSWERSCourt case that upheld segregation under the document of separate but
equal.
19th Amendment - ANSWERSAmendment that allows women to vote
Brown v. Board - ANSWERSCourt case that overturns Plessy v. Ferguson and says that separate but equal
is inherently unequal.
, Civil Rights Act of 1957 - ANSWERSThis established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and
empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against segregation. Strongly encouraging
the registration of African American voting, addressed use of facilities.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ANSWERSThis outlawed segregation saying that no business can discriminate on
the basis of race.
Voting Rights Act of 1982 - ANSWERSThis created majority - minority districts.
Voting Rights Act of 1965 - ANSWERSThis outlawed literacy tests everywhere
Bakke v. Board of Regents - ANSWERSCourt case that declared that diversity MAY be a compelling
interest but it cannot be an overriding interest
Affirmative action - ANSWERSAn action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination,
especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
Textualist - ANSWERSWhat is Meese's viewpoint on interpreting the Constitution?
Contextualist - ANSWERSWhat is Brennan's viewpoint on interpreting the Constitution?
Interpretivism - ANSWERSWhat is Justice Breyer and Ginsberg's viewpoint on interpreting the
Constitution?
Literal - ANSWERSWhat is Justice Black's viewpoint on interpreting the Constitution?
Original intent - ANSWERSWhat was Justice Scalia's viewpoint on interpreting the Constitution.
Separationism - ANSWERSBelief that there should be a strong separation between church and state
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