Author Question: In response to the Supreme Court's ruling in the Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg case, President ... (Read 66 times)

NguyenJ · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

Parliament believed the colonists would accept the Tea Act because

a. it would lower the price of tea.
b. it confirmed the power of colonial assemblies to tax the colonists.
c. allowed the Dutch to sell some tea in the colonies.
d. it gave colonial merchants greater profits.

Question 2

In response to the Supreme Court's ruling in the Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg case, President Nixon

a. proposed that busing also be used to solve the de facto segregation of northern school systems.
b. sent federal troops to ensure the peaceful integration of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools.
c. urged the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system to defy the Court's ruling.
d. said that busing as a remedy to end segregated schools was reckless and extreme.