What was the basis for the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that upheld the constitutionality of a state law requiring segregated railroad facilities?
a. Former slaves are not entitled to full citizenship rights because they did not immigrate to the United States willingly.
b. Former slaves are not entitled to full citizenship rights because they were considered property under the law.
c. The Constitution does not prohibit segregation; it only mandates equal protection under the law.
d. Railroad transportation involves interstate commerce, which is regulated by Congress; there is no provision in federal law that prohibits segregation.
Answer: c
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a. Environmental protection represents one of the few areas in which the government has taken a limited role in regulating the activities of private actors. b. While 1970s-era environmental regulations produced visible successes, this has not been followed by a continuing national commitment to environmentalism. c. President Obama proposed a system of "cap and trade" energy regulations, which were subsequently adopted by Congress. d. The United States has fewer environmental regulations than other advanced democracies. e. States have tended to act in the absence of federal action on environmental issues as exemplified by several states adopting emissions caps that broadly follow the guidelines of the Kyoto Protocols that has not been adopted by the national government.
The leader of the House is known as the
a. Speaker of the House. b. House Majority Leader. c. House Whip. d. President pro tempore.
Laws that prevented persons of Asian descent from becoming citizens or owning property were known as ______.
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One unintended result of the immigration legislation signed by President Johnson in 1965 was "chain migration," under which
A) ?more persons than anticipated from Africa and Asia with specified technical skills or education applied to immigrate. B) ?some immigrants would reapply for residence repeatedly, making it hard to send them back to their home countries when their visas expired. C) ?people from certain regions of foreign countries uncovered loopholes in the law allowing many more people than expected from certain villages, for example, to immigrate. D) ?people repeatedly applied for immigration from different countries until they were successful, using fraudulent documentation that the U.S. immigration system was ill-prepared to evaluate. E) ?immigrants would petition for their relatives to come to the United States.