True False Racial Minorities And + Test Bank + Answers Ch.13 - Chapter Test Bank | Law & Society 4e Walsh by Anthony Walsh. DOCX document preview.
CHAPTER 13
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. The term slave or slavery appears at least twice in the U.S. Constitution.
2. Dred Scott was awarded his freedom by the Missouri District Court.
3. The founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was Booker T. Washington.
4. Plessy v. Ferguson was about social segregation of the races.
5. International pressure was a major factor behind the civil rights revolution in the 1960s.
6. American Indians received U.S. citizenship after African Americans.
7. Blacks were the only minorities to which the Jim Crow laws were applicable.
8. The Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively marked the end of the westward expansion of slavery.
9. There were numerous black officeholders and jury members in the South during Reconstruction.
10. The Thirteenth Amendment gave blacks the right to vote.
11. Worcester v. Georgia established that the federal government, not state governments, has authority over Indian affairs.
12. According to Laurence French, Standing Bear v. Crook relegated American Indians to a status equal to that of animals.
13. In writing the Dawes Act, Henry Dawes ultimately had the American Indians’ best interests in mind.
14. The termination policy eroded the American Indians’ tribal sovereignty.
15. Because previous legislation banning emigration from “undesirable” European countries had been declared unconstitutional, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 faced strenuous legal challenges.
16. Overall, Asians have assimilated into American culture well with relatively minimal legal conflict.
17. Korematsu v. United States stated that internment is unconstitutional during times of war.
18. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.
19. In the Southwest, Hispanics were early in forming a powerful civil rights organization akin to the NAACP .
20. The term Marshall Trilogy refers to a series of court cases that at one point defined the legal status of African Americans.
21. The Cold War played a huge part in gaining civil rights for blacks.
22. The U.S. Constitution defines slaves as three-fifths of a person.
23. The slave Dred Scott was freed on the basis of Somerset v. Stewart.
24. The Fourteenth Amendment declared that all people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens.
25. One of the arguments in Plessy was that race is simply a social construction, not a biological reality.
26. Denying someone voting rights is known as segregation.
27. Dr. Martin Luther King founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
28. The Discovery Doctrine guaranteed certain territorial rights to the Indians.
29. The Indians were forced onto reservations mostly because of defeats in battle.
30. American Indians have regained almost complete sovereignty.
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