_____ segregation occurs because of laws or administrative decisions by public agencies.
A) Private
B) Gender
C) De jure
D) De facto
E) Civil
Question -2-A political system operates for which of the following purposes?
A) to describe the response of the rest of society to the decisions made by authorities
B) to make for society the binding, authoritative decisions about who gets what
C) to indicate what people and groups want from the system
D) to provide the attitudes and actions at all levels that allow the system to continue to work
E) major entertainment activity
Question -3-In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the Supreme Court held that
A) ethnic minorities have no rights to equal treatment by the government.
B) segregation of races in public schools violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
C) the national government does not have the power to force any action on local school boards.
D) separation of races for a reason such as education is not a violation of the Constitution.
E) African Americans could not be denied the right to a college education.
Question -4-A constitutional government is one in which
A) power is limited by a framework of fundamental written law.
B) leaders are elected to speak for and represent the people.
C) all people are considered to be of equal worth.
D) decisions are made based upon majority rule.
E) there are no major disagreements.
Question -5-The NAACP chose to start challenging separate-but-equal policies in education within law schools, because
A) the federal government had authority over the majority of law schools.
B) states would find establishing separate professional schools for African American students too expensive and would view integration as the best alternative.
C) states would be more willing to comply because law schools were already admitting women and Hispanic Americans.
D) law schools were more progressive in mission and would be more apt to expand their admittance criteria.
E) other institutions of higher education, as well as public K-12 schools, were already integrating.
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