Full Test Bank Racial Minorities And The Law Chapter 13

CHAPTER 13

RACIAL MINORITIES AND THE LAW

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. One problem with “the greatest good for the greatest number” principle is that

a) it is undemocratic.

b) it can negatively impact minorities.

c) it is not a constitutional principle.

d) minorities can use it against the good of the majority.

2. The slaves aboard the Amistad were released by the U.S. Supreme Court on ___ grounds.

a) moral (under pressure from the anti-slavery movement)

b) political (to please President Van Buren)

c) legal (the slaves’ capture was a violation of an Anglo-Spanish treaty)

d) economic (the owners of the Amistad would not pay the slaves’ keep)

3. The practice of freeing slaves who had sojourned on free soil was based on which court case?

a) The Slave, Grace

b) Scott v. Sandford

c) U.S. v. Amistad

d) Somerset v. Stewart

e) In Re Scott

4. Scott v. Sandford

a) refused to free Scott and ruled slavery to be constitutional.

b) refused to free Scott but ruled slavery to be unconstitutional.

c) freed Scott but ruled slavery to be constitutional.

d) refused to free Scott and ruled the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.

e) refused to free Scott but ruled the Missouri Compromise be constitutional.

5. The _______ legally freed the slaves in the United States.

a) first part of the Emancipation Proclamation

b) first and second parts of the Emancipation Proclamation

c) Fourteenth Amendment

d) Thirteenth Amendment

e) Fifteenth Amendment

6. Laws that allowed for the arrest of vagrant ex-slaves and seen as attempts to reestablish slavery in the South were known as

a) black vagrancy acts.

b) Black Codes.

c) Jim Crow.

d) black exclusion.

7. The organization formed by the federal government to help and protect ex-slaves was known as

a) Bureau of Black Affairs.

b) Office of Emancipation Protection.

c) Freedman’s Bureau.

d) Bureau of Reconstruction.

8. The Fifteenth Amendment

a) legally freed the slaves.

b) made blacks citizens of their states and of the United States.

c) granted African Americans the right to vote.

d) granted African Americans all due process rights enjoyed by whites.

9. Which Supreme Court case ruled that the law forbids only state discrimination against blacks and that the law cannot interfere with discriminatory acts of businesses and individuals?

a) Williams v. Mississippi

b) Civil Rights Cases

c) Plessy v. Ferguson

d) Crow v. Georgia

10. Smith v. Allwright had to do with

a) voting rights issues.

b) accommodation segregation issues.

c) educational segregation issues.

d) black jury representation issues.

11. We can conclude from the statements made by black economists Glen Loury and Walter Williams that

a) blacks in America are poorer than blacks almost anywhere else.

b) blacks are financially better off in America than American Indians.

c) blacks have very little political and economic power in America.

d) blacks are so well off in America that if they were a nation they would be among the twenty richest.

12. Physical and cultural genocide was

a) practiced against American Indians by official policy.

b) practiced against American Indians but not sanctioned by official policy.

c) the unfortunate result of numerous wars and uprisings by American Indians.

d) never practiced against American Indians.

13. The American document that was the functional equivalent of the British Proclamation Act in terms of the government’s role in Indian affairs was

a) Treaty of Fort Pit.

b) Northwest Ordinance.

c) Articles of Confederation.

d) Discovery Doctrine.

14. The principle that Indians were only occupants, not owners, of the lands they were on was enunciated in the

a) Treaty of Fort Pit.

b) Northwest Ordinance.

c) Articles of Confederation.

d) Discovery Doctrine.

15. The Indian Removal Act forced many tribes to move to an area that is now the state of

a) Georgia.

b) Oklahoma.

c) Texas.

d) Arizona.

16. The General Allotment Act (Dawes Act) was part of the ____ period.

a) physical genocide

b) termination

c) assimilation

d) citizenship

17. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that

a) foreign-born Asians can become U.S. citizens.

b) foreign-born Asians cannot become U.S. citizens.

c) Asians born in the United States can become U.S. citizens.

d) Asians cannot become U.S. citizens whether born in the United States or not.

18. Asian Americans are often referred to as the model minority because

a) they are more likely to be married than whites.

b) they have a higher average household income than whites.

c) they are more likely to have a college degree.

d) all of the above.

e) a and c only.

19. In 1960 the vast majority of immigrants to the United States were from

a) Mexico

b) Europe

c) China

d) Vietnam

20. The Indian Self-Determination Act was passed during the ______ administration largely because of _____.

a) Nixon; increasing Indian militancy

b) Johnson; increasing international pressure

c) Carter; a number of Supreme Court rulings

d) Reagan; the Trail of Broken Treaties March on Washington

21. The case in which the British High Court ruled that once a slave returns to a slave jurisdiction away from England, the laws of England no longer apply; the laws of the slave jurisdiction do.

a) The Slave, Grace

b) Scott v. Sandford

c) U.S. v. Amistad

d) Somerset v. Stewart

e) Plessy v. Ferguson

22. The Missouri Compromise was repealed by

a) the Emancipation Proclamation.

b) the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

c) Scott v. Sandford.

d) Somerset v. Stewart.

23. The period directly after the end of the Civil War designed to reestablish the Southern states is known as the

a) reestablishment period.

b) freedman’s period.

c) Reconstruction period.

d) reconciliation period.

24. The U.S. Congress struck back at the Black Codes by passing the

a) Civil Rights Act of 1868.

b) Emancipation Protection Act.

c) Fourteenth Amendment.

d) Fifteenth Amendment.

25. The founder the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was

a) W. E. B. DuBois.

b) Jim Crow.

c) Martin Luther King.

d) Booker T. Washington.

26. States were least likely to want to grant blacks ____ rights.

a) civil

b) political

c) social

27. The Marshall Trilogy of cases was concerned with

a) the territorial claims of Indians.

b) the sovereign status of Indians.

c) treaty-making with the Indians.

d) the legal status of presidential Indian wars.

28. The legislation that extended federal criminal jurisdiction over Indians was the

a) Uniform Crime Code.

b) Federal Indian Crime Code.

c) Dawes Act.

d) Major Crimes Act.

29. Japanese Americans were placed into relocation centers during World War II by order of

a) Japanese Exclusion Act.

b) Executive Order 9066.

c) Korematsu v. United States.

d) Wartime Exigency Act of 1945.

30. The evidence presented in this chapter supports the notion that

a) the judicial branch has played the most important role in gaining racial equality.

b) the executive branch has played the most important role in gaining racial equality.

c) the legislative branch has played the most important role in gaining racial equality.

d) all branches are of equal importance.