Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The Fair Sentencing Act reform divided the sentence divide between crack and powder cocaine to a ratio of 18-to-1.
2. Sentences for crack used to be 100 times longer than for powder cocaine.
3. The Plessy Act was the first federal criminal law punishing the nonmedical use of drugs.
4. The Civil Rights Act authorized federal prosecution of any person who willingly injures, intimidates, or interferes with another person or attempts to do so by force because of other person’s race, color, religion, or national origin.
5. In the case of United States v. Whren 1996, it was ruled that aliens who enter the United States are bound by American law.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False

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