Citizenship And Civil Rights Ch 9 Magruder's Vol III Question Preview (ID: 39454)


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In ________, the Supreme Court found that segregated rail transportation was constitutional because separate but equal accommodations did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
a) Plessy v. Ferguson
b) the Slaughterhouse cases
c) Brown v Board of Education
d) Gitlow v New York

Laws enacted by southern states that resulted in segregation by race were also known as
a) freedmen statutes.
b) grandfather clauses.
c) sharecropper statutes.
d) Jim Crow laws.

What sort of strategy did the NAACP pursue in its efforts to ensure equality for African Americans by overturning Jim Crow laws and Plessy v. Ferguson?
a) a legislation strategy at the local level
b) a litigation strategy at the federal level
c) a legislation strategy at the federal level
d) a litigation strategy at the state level

What were Black Codes?
a) laws passed in northern states to guarantee rights to newly freed blacks
b) unsuccessful attempts by northern states to recruit newly freed blacks to work in northern factories
c) laws passed in southern states that denied legal rights to newly freed slaves
d) restrictions placed on the right of newly freed slaves to own property in the North

The Emancipation Proclamation
a) freed all slaves in the Confederacy.
b) freed all slaves.
c) freed all slaves in the North.
d) limited the ownership of slaves in the territories.

What was the primary agenda at the Seneca Falls Convention?
a) guaranteeing the continued existence of slavery
b) promotion of de jure discrimination
c) abolition of women's suffrage
d) equal rights for men and women

Abolitionists worked towards
a) repealing the Civil War Amendments.
b) abolishing suffrage limits for women.
c) ending slavery.
d) the emancipation of women.

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?
a) to enhance the civil rights of noncitizens
b) to maintain the current balance of slave and free states
c) to prohibit the expansion of slavery into any new states admitted to the union
d) to guarantee women the right to vote while denying the right to vote to slaves

Where does the Constitution discuss equality?
a) the Preamble
b) the First Amendment
c) Article I, section 8
d) the Fourteenth Amendment

Why did northern senators initially oppose adding Missouri to the union?
a) The Missouri Constitution did not include civil liberties protections.
b) Adding Missouri would violate a treaty the United States had signed with various Indian tribes.
c) Missouri would be a slave state.
d) Missouri would be a free state.

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