Q 01/05

What is the 1964 US law outlawing discrimination by race, colour, religion, sex and national origin called?

A) The Civil Rights Act

B) The Fair Housing Act

C) The Economic Opportunity Act

D) The Equal Employment Opportunity Act

Answer · why

A) The Civil Rights Act

The Civil Rights Act: in 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that its ban on sex discrimination at work also covers firing someone for sexual orientation or ...

Q 02/05

Televised beatings of marchers in which Alabama city helped push the Voting Rights Act through Congress?

A) Birmingham

B) Selma

C) Tuskegee

D) Huntsville

Answer · why

B) Selma

Selma: on 'Bloody Sunday' in 1965, state troopers attacked marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and the national outcry hastened the bill's passage.

Q 03/05

Which 1896 Supreme Court case established 'separate but equal'?

A) Dred Scott v. Sandford

B) Plessy v. Ferguson

C) Korematsu v. United States

D) Marbury v. Madison

Answer · why

B) Plessy v. Ferguson

Plessy v. Ferguson: in 1892 Homer Plessy deliberately sat in a whites-only train car in New Orleans to test Louisiana's segregation law, and was arres...

Q 04/05

In 1967, which ban did the Supreme Court strike down in the Loving case?

A) Mixed-race schools

B) Birth control

C) Flag burning

D) Interracial marriage

Answer · why

D) Interracial marriage

Interracial marriage: the Lovings had been sentenced to a year in prison, suspended if they left Virginia for 25 years, so they moved to Washington, D...

Q 05/05

The 2015 Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges guaranteed the right to marry to whom nationwide?

A) Same-sex couples

B) Interfaith couples

C) Immigrants

D) Prisoners

Answer · why

A) Same-sex couples

Before the ruling, same-sex marriage was already legal in 36 states.