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The Players
VocabularyPlessey
v.Ferguson
Brown v.Board of Education
Dred Scottv. Sandford
Question
Who was the primary lawyer for the NAACP during the Brown v. Board
of Education trial?
Answer
Thurgood Marshal
Question
What was the name of the slave who sued for his right to be free after
being taken into free territory by his owner?
Answer
Dred Scott
Question
Who was the Chief Justice who pushed for a unanimous decision for
the Brown v. Board of Education trial?
Answer
Earl Warren
Question
What was the name of the man who argued that segregation violated the
Equal Protection clause of the Constitution?
Answer
Homer Adolph Plessey
Question
What was the name of Dred Scott’s owner?
Answer
John Emerson
Question
What does the Doctrine of Separate But Equal state?
Answer
That all factions of public life can be separate between Blacks and Whites
as long as the facilities are of equal or greater value.
Question
What is popular sovereignty?
Answer
The ability for people who live within a state or territories borders to decide
whether or not to allow slavery.
Question
What does NAACP stand for?
Answer
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Question
In what constitutional amendment is the Equal Protection Clause found?
Answer
Amendment 14
Question
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
Answer
The compromise which established popular sovereignty with the creation of the states of Kansas and Nebraska
Question
What was the result of the Plessey v. Ferguson decision?
Answer
Separate But Equal
Question
What is the time period after the Civil War called?
Answer
Reconstruction
Question
What body of southern laws was Plessey fighting against?
Answer
Jim Crow Laws
Question
What was the state of Louisiana’s argument in the Plessey case?
Answer
It is the right of each State to make rules to protect public safety.
Question
What was the main idea of Justice Henry B. Brown’s decision in the
Plessey case?
Answer
That legislation cannot change peoples’ racist beliefs.
Question
What prior Supreme Court case did Brown v. Board of Education
overturn?
Answer
Plessey v. Ferguson
Question
What was the situation in Topeka, Kansas that the NAACP focused on?
Answer
Linda Brown had been denied the right to attend an elementary school
only five blocks from her house because she was African American.
Question
What two groups had previously been integrated before the Brown case?
Answer
Labor Unions and the military
Question
What loop whole was left open to help ease social tension over the
Brown decision?
Answer
There was no time limit set for the desegregation of schools.
Question
What type of lawsuit was Brown v. Board of Education?
Answer
A class action suit
Question
What does the phrase “free soil” refer to?
Answer
A state or territory which does not allow slavery within its borders.
Question
Did the Supreme Court find the Missouri Compromise to be
constitutional or unconstitutional?
Answer
Unconstitutional, the Missouri Compromise infringed on the right of
the property (slave) owner.
Question
What was Dred Scott’s argument as to why he should be a free man?
Answer
When a person enters a free State or territory, the free status overrides the
previous condition of servitude.
Question
What free territories was Dred Scott taken to before returning to Missouri?
Answer
Dred Scott was taken to Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin.
Question
The Dred Scott decision was overturned by the adoption of what
two constitutional amendments?
Answer
The 13th and 14th Amendments.