Author Question: Who were the border ruffians? A) Antislavery supporters from Missouri who violently fought with ... (Read 49 times)

jessicacav · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

What was the major social reason why the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?

A) Research showed that segregation taught African American children to accept their inferiority
to whites.
B) African American students were taught by unqualified black teachers.
C) Segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
D) Black children had been kept apart from white children from a young age.

Question 2

The depiction of tight packing of Africans on this slave ship demonstrates which of the following views that Europeans and colonists had toward enslaved Africans?

A) Slaves were regarded to be valuable property.
B) Slaves were thought to prefer living in close proximity to each other.
C) Slaves were treated more like objects than people.
D) Slaves were tenderly cared for so that they could remain healthy during the voyage.

Question 3

How did this Republican campaign poster from the election of 1900 address the idea that the United States should establish an American overseas empire?

A) American intervention made life in Cuba more difficult.
B) American intervention was done for the purpose of acquiring overseas markets.
C) American intervention in foreign nations improved their quality of life.
D) American intervention showcased its military and naval superiority.

Question 4

Who were the border ruffians?

A) Antislavery supporters from Missouri who violently fought with proslavery forces in Kansas.
B) New England abolitionists who sent money and guns to support antislavery forces in Kansas.
C) Kansas settlers who wrote a proslavery constitution for their territory.
D) Illegal voters from Missouri who voted for a proslavery government in Kansas.