The Supreme Court began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s because
a. the Court was the only branch of government with the Constitutional authority to do so.
b. the courts were dominated by New Deal liberals.
c. President Eisenhower had requested the Court's assistance.
d. Congress and the presidency had largely abdicated their responsibilities by keeping hands off
the issue.
e. the Constitution clearly prohibited any segregation.
Answer: D
APUSH
- Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Summer nearly to death on the Senate floor because
- Hilton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contented that
- Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise primarily because
- Within two months after the election of Lincoln
- During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party
- In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic party
- Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because
- The crucial Freeport Question that Lincoln demanded that Douglas answer during their debates was whether
- The financial and economic collapse of 1857 increased northern anger at the South's refusal to support
- In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court
- The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for
- Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor because
- The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by
- As submitted to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution was designed to
- Southerners were especially enraged by abolitionists' funding of antislavery settlers in Kansas because
- Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contended that
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Northerners especially resented Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act because it
- The Gadsden Purchase was fundamentally designed to
- The primary goal of the Treaty of Kanagawa , which Commodore Matthew Perry signed with Japan in 1854, was
- Southerners seeking to expand the territory of slavery undertook filibustering military expeditions to acquire
- The conflict over slavery following the election of 1852 led shortly to the
- The most significant effect of the Fugitive Slave Law, passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, was
- The greatest winner in the Compromise of 1850 was
- Under the terms of the Compromise of 1850