To protect corporations from state regulation, the courts ingeniously interpreted the ____ , which was designed to protect the rights of ex-slaves
a. Wabash case
b. Plessey v. Ferguson case
c. Thirteenth Amendment
d. Fourteenth Amendment
e. Civil Rights Act
d
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Why did Andrew Johnson particularly resist the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment?
a. Johnson felt that these laws did not grant full equal rights to African Americans, and thus pushed for further legislation, which ultimately became the Fifteenth Amendment. b. Johnson strongly supported states' rights and felt that these laws did not allow states to manage their own affairs regarding the rights of their citizens. c. Johnson felt that by stating the rights of African Americans, southern state governments would be able to exploit legal loopholes. d. Johnson believed that his Republican supporters would never vote for him again if he supported equal rights for African Americans. e. Johnson knew that these laws would only encourage terrorist organizations to form in opposition to them.
Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by
a. opposing workingmen's compensation. b. opposing the entry of women into politics. c. endorsing immigration limitations on Japanese and Chinese immigrants. d. refusing to appoint the Jewish Louis D. Brandeis to the Federal Trade Commission. e. accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy.
?The political structure in Sparta contained
A. two kings. B. a council of ephors. C. a council of elders. D. a general assembly. E. all of these
A person’s life as a slave began with __________.
a. arrival at Caribbean plantations b. birth c. capture by African traders d. the Middle Passage