In the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v.Sandford in 1857, what claim was made by Chief Justice Roger Taney in his majority opinion?
a. The Founders made clear in the Constitution that all people are equal and have inalienable rights, and therefore government and whites must honor those rights.
b. Under the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal, but the Founders made it clear that phrase does not include women, who belong in the home.
c. The Founders believed that blacks had no rights that whites or government were bound to honor or respect.
d. The Constitution does not mention equality, but nevertheless, in the spirit of democracy it should be honored, and therefore both black and white men have rights.
Question -2-__________ argued many of the key civil rights cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and then later went on to become a justice of the Supreme Court.
a. Martin Luther King Jr.
b. Earl Warren
c. Thurgood Marshall
d. Robert Kennedy
Question -3-The influence the United States derives in world affairs that comes from the attractiveness to others of a nation's culture, products, and way of life is referred to as __________ power.
a. cultural
b. rising
c. relative
d. soft
Question -4-Jim Crow laws mandated which of the following?
a. racial segregation
b. poll taxes
c. grandfather clauses
d. black codes
Question -5-Which agency was subjected to intense scrutiny by Congress, the press, and the public because it failed to alert the nation to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and misread the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
a. the National Reconnaissance Office
b. the Central Intelligence Agency
c. the Department of Defense
d. the National Security Agency
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