Question 1

Which of the following organizations would most likely advocate for the concurring opinion of Roe v. Wade (1973)?

Accepted Answer

The National Organization of Women

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The Pro-Life Action League.

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The National Right to Life Committee.

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Question 2

Which of the following organizations would most likely advocate for the dissenting opinion of Roe v. Wade (1973)?

Accepted Answer

The Eagle Forum.

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Planned Parenthood.

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The American Civil Liberties Union.

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The National Abortion Federation.

Question 3

Roe v. Wade (1973) has impacted the U.S. judicial system in which of the following ways?

Accepted Answer

The selection of federal judges, especially Supreme Court Justices, has become more politicized.

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The states have chosen not to throw up any legal challenges to the Roe decision.

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Presidents of both major political parties have agreed not to make views on abortion a litmus test for judicial appointment.

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With the abortion debate settled once and for all, the issue no longer occupies the time of the federal judiciary.

Question 4

Which of the following best summarizes the debate reflected in Roe v. Wade (1973)?

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Can a state enact a law criminalizing a woman's effort to obtain an abortion?

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Can a state enact a law requiring a minor to receive parental consent before seeking an abortion?

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Can a state enact a law mandating spousal awareness prior to a woman obtaining an abortion?

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Can a state enact a law banning a second trimester abortion procedure commonly known as partial birth abortion?

Question 5

Which of the following most clearly states the outcome of Roe v. Wade (1973)?

Accepted Answer

The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion, although state interests in regulating abortions to protect women's health and the potentiality of human life must be taken into account.

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Women inherently possess the right to terminate a pregnancy and compelling them to carry and bear children subjects them to involuntary servitude, a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment.

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A state may not regulate a woman's right to an abortion in any way thanks to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause.

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As found in the Ninth Amendment, the right to privacy is guaranteed by the Constitution should encompass a woman's right to obtain an abortion.

Question 6

Due to its focus on equal rights, opponents of the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision have likened it to which other Supreme Court decision?

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

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Schenck v. United States (1919)

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Gitlow v. New York (1925)

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Engel v. Vitale (1962)

Question 7

The dissenting opinion of Roe v. Wade (1973) is most closely associated with which judicial interpretation?

Accepted Answer

Constitutional Originalism.

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Judicial Review.

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Loose Constructionism.

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Judicial Activism.

Question 8

The outcome of Roe v. Wade (1973) rests most heavily on which of the following ideas reflected in the U.S. Constitution?

Accepted Answer

The Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restriction of state action.

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The Nineteenth Amendment's guarantee of women's suffrage rights.

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The First Amendment's safeguarding of religious freedom.

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The Ninth Amendment's protection of the right to privacy.

Question 9

Opponents of Roe v. Wade (1973) would claim that the ruling is most closely associated with which judicial interpretation?

Accepted Answer

Judicial Activism

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Strict Constructionism.

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Constitutional Originalism.

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Judicial Restraint.

Question 10

Roe v. Wade (1973) reflects what shift in American beliefs?

Accepted Answer

20th century social forces at work in the U.S. pushed the country towards greater political and sexual freedom for women.

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The sexual revolution of the 1960s caused a vast majority of Americans to fully endorse the policy of unrestricted abortion on demand.

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During the last 40 years, the states have been the driving force in crafting abortion policy.

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In the latter half of the 20th century, the role of religion in public life increased significantly.

Question 11

Which of the following Supreme Court applications of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause would the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have difficulty supporting?

Accepted Answer

Validation of corporate personhood

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Advocacy for same-sex marriage

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Support of detained illegal immigrants

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Endorsement of affirmative action

Question 12

Which of the following best describes Dr. Martin Luther King's point of view when writing the Letter from Birmingham Jail?

Accepted Answer

Dr. King defends the motivations, tactics, and goals of the Birmingham campaign specifically and the Civil Rights Movement in general

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Arguing that time was on their side, Dr. King promises that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) would slow down the pace of public demonstration.

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Dr. King apologizes for the community tensions created by such tactics as sit-ins and marches.

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Acknowledging failure, Dr. King is ready to cede leadership of the Civil Rights Movement to more radical elements.

Question 13

Which of the following organizations was founded on principles that were in direct opposition to the tactic of non-violent disobedience advocated in Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail?

Accepted Answer

The Black Panther Party

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The National Urban League

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The Congress of Racial Equality

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D

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

Question 14

One of the short term effects of Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail was

Accepted Answer

the decision to organize a March on Washington D.C. for Jobs and Freedom.

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an end to violence carried out on blacks in Birmingham, AL.

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the founding of the Black Panther Party by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

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unprecedented registration of black voters throughout the South.

Question 15

Which of the following best describes the major assumption of Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail?

Accepted Answer

Whites would finally recognize that blacks have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action to achieve social justice.

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Efforts at civil disobedience would energize white, moderate churchgoers to join the Civil Rights Movement.

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Violence in the name of a just cause is always justified.

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Dr. King's incarceration would be huge failure for the Civil Rights Movement.

Question 16

Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail reflects what shift in American attitudes toward civil disobedience?

Accepted Answer

In the face of immoral laws, civil disobedience is a perfectly justified response in America.

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Civil disobedience, especially when it involves breaking the law, has no place in American society.
B

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During wartime, acts of civil disobedience should never be tolerated in the U.S.

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Violent civil disobedience is a legitimate reaction to immoral laws in the U.S.

Question 17

One of the proximate effects of Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail was

Accepted Answer

the reinvigoration of Dr. King's leadership of the Civil Rights Movement.

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the collapse of southern resistance to desegregation.

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the extended incarceration of Dr. King.

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a disintegration of support for Dr. King by young blacks.

Question 18

Based on Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham and your knowledge of the 1960s, which of the following best describes how the Civil Rights Movement affected U.S. foreign policy?

Accepted Answer

The Kennedy Administration became very concerned in the 1960s that portrayals of racial tension in the U.S. would have a detrimental effect on successfully fighting the Cold War.

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The Vietnam War was initiated by the Federal Government to distract the country away from the domestic turmoil gripping the U.S. in the 1960s.

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The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was a purely domestic issue and had no effect on U.S. foreign policy at the time.

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Linkage between the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War never really materialized in the 1960s.

Question 19

Which of the following groups would most likely advocate for the opinion of the Court in Brown v. Board of Education I?

Accepted Answer

The National Urban League.

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The "Dixiecrats".

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The Citizens' Councils of America.

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The Ku Klux Klan.

Question 20

Which of the following inspired Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s writing of the Letter from Birmingham Jail?

Accepted Answer

An open newspaper letter submitted by a group of white, Alabama clergymen which criticized his leadership of the Civil Rights Movement.

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The growing power struggle between Dr. King and the Reverend Ralph Abernathy over control of SCLC.

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Momentum gained from a previous, successful campaign in Albany, GA which had been organized by SCLC.

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The need to answer challenges made by Nation of Islam spokesman Malcolm X.

Question 21

Which of the following organizations would initially support the tactic of non-violent disobedience depicted in Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail but would later adopt a more aggressive confrontational stance that often advocated violence?

Accepted Answer

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

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The Weather Underground

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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The Black Panther Party

Question 22

One of the long term effects of Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail was

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its application of the ideals found in the letter by opponents of apartheid in South Africa and of communism behind the Iron Curtain.

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the acceptance of the Black Panther Party as a mainstream political organization.

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C
the dissolution of the Ku Klux Klan.

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the ascension of Malcolm X to a leadership position in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

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