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POLS 2311 2026 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS.
In the case of Plessy v Ferguson the supreme court ruled that -
correct answer-State legislatures may pass laws that require
the races to be separate from one another
The immediate dispute in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson was
between the state of Louisiana and Home Plessy over whether
poesy had to pay a $25 fine to the state. In order to resolve that
dispute, the Supreme court had to divide which of the following
things? - correct answer-Does the fourteenth amendment
permit states to require people of different races to be
separated from one another in some circumstances?
The case of Nixon v. Henderson was a dispute about - correct
answer-voting in party primary elections
Who was painter in the case of Sweatt v. Painter - correct
answer-The president of the University of Texas
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One result of the dispute in Sweatt v. Painter was that - correct
answer-The Texas Legislature created a new University in
Houston
In the case of Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme court
ruled that - correct answer-Separate education facilities are
inherently unequal
What was the immediate response of most state and local
government in the South of the Supreme Court's decision in
Brown v. Board of education - correct answer-They avoided
implementing the court's decision
In the case of Brown v. Board of Education - correct answer-
Attorneys for the brown family granted that the facilities and
teacher in the black school in Topeka were equal to the
teachers and facilities in the white schools
Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas was integrated in
1957 - correct answer-When the president of the United States
intervened to help enforce the court order for integration
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With regard to the implementation of the principle of Brown v.
Board of Education in the schools Little Rock, Arkansas, in
1957, - correct answer-The governor and the state legislature
worked actively to opposed implementation.
The experience with school desegregation in little rock in 1957
illustrates which of the following statements from Alexander
Hamilton in Federalist 78? - correct answer-The judiciary [has]
merely judgement; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of
the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgements
Which of the following decisions was overturned, in part at
least, by constitutional amendment? - correct answer-Dred
Scott v. Sandford
Which Constitutional amendment makes slavery
unconstitutional? - correct answer-13th
According to class, which of the following is correct about the
constitutional convention and slavery? - correct answer-Many
delegates to the Constitutional convention objected on
principled grounds to slavery and yet agreed to a compromise
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that it continue where it existed so that the southern states
would join the Union.
in the case of Brown v Board of Education the Supreme Court
ruled that - correct answer-States may not require educational
facilities to be separated by race
In the case of Sweatt v Painter the Supreme Court ruled that -
correct answer-Sweatt must be admitted to the University of
Texas school of Law since there was no equal law school for
black students in the state
Consider these cases: Plessy v. Ferguson, Sweatt v. Painter,
Brown v. Board of Education, Nixon v. Herndon,. In how many
of them has the Supreme Court's ruling been overruled by the
Supreme Court? - correct answer-2
Part of the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott
case was that - correct answer-The Missouri Compromise was
unconstitutional.
POLS 2311 2026 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS.
In the case of Plessy v Ferguson the supreme court ruled that -
correct answer-State legislatures may pass laws that require
the races to be separate from one another
The immediate dispute in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson was
between the state of Louisiana and Home Plessy over whether
poesy had to pay a $25 fine to the state. In order to resolve that
dispute, the Supreme court had to divide which of the following
things? - correct answer-Does the fourteenth amendment
permit states to require people of different races to be
separated from one another in some circumstances?
The case of Nixon v. Henderson was a dispute about - correct
answer-voting in party primary elections
Who was painter in the case of Sweatt v. Painter - correct
answer-The president of the University of Texas
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One result of the dispute in Sweatt v. Painter was that - correct
answer-The Texas Legislature created a new University in
Houston
In the case of Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme court
ruled that - correct answer-Separate education facilities are
inherently unequal
What was the immediate response of most state and local
government in the South of the Supreme Court's decision in
Brown v. Board of education - correct answer-They avoided
implementing the court's decision
In the case of Brown v. Board of Education - correct answer-
Attorneys for the brown family granted that the facilities and
teacher in the black school in Topeka were equal to the
teachers and facilities in the white schools
Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas was integrated in
1957 - correct answer-When the president of the United States
intervened to help enforce the court order for integration
, Page | 3
With regard to the implementation of the principle of Brown v.
Board of Education in the schools Little Rock, Arkansas, in
1957, - correct answer-The governor and the state legislature
worked actively to opposed implementation.
The experience with school desegregation in little rock in 1957
illustrates which of the following statements from Alexander
Hamilton in Federalist 78? - correct answer-The judiciary [has]
merely judgement; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of
the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgements
Which of the following decisions was overturned, in part at
least, by constitutional amendment? - correct answer-Dred
Scott v. Sandford
Which Constitutional amendment makes slavery
unconstitutional? - correct answer-13th
According to class, which of the following is correct about the
constitutional convention and slavery? - correct answer-Many
delegates to the Constitutional convention objected on
principled grounds to slavery and yet agreed to a compromise
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that it continue where it existed so that the southern states
would join the Union.
in the case of Brown v Board of Education the Supreme Court
ruled that - correct answer-States may not require educational
facilities to be separated by race
In the case of Sweatt v Painter the Supreme Court ruled that -
correct answer-Sweatt must be admitted to the University of
Texas school of Law since there was no equal law school for
black students in the state
Consider these cases: Plessy v. Ferguson, Sweatt v. Painter,
Brown v. Board of Education, Nixon v. Herndon,. In how many
of them has the Supreme Court's ruling been overruled by the
Supreme Court? - correct answer-2
Part of the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott
case was that - correct answer-The Missouri Compromise was
unconstitutional.
