Chapter 14

Quiz for Document 14-6: Robert Browne Elliott, Speech to Congress (1874)

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Question 1

In his speech to Congress in 1874, Robert Browne Elliott frames the Civil Rights Act of 1875 asA. one more step toward the full reunification of the Union and the Confederacy.
B. redundant due to the ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
C. the capstone of the long American struggle for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
D. a law that would undermine the progress achieved by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Question 2

The Slaughterhouse Cases decision by the Supreme Court threatened the validity of civil rights legislation by asserting that the Fourteenth AmendmentA. applied to property not individuals.
B. protected civil rights from federal restrictions, not state restrictions.
C. supported civil rights of whites, not blacks.
D. was ratified by states under military occupation.

Question 3

Elliott holds that the opinions of Georgia Senator Alexander Stephens maintained a political doctrine regarding the states that hadA. been established since the War of Independence.
B. proven by civil war to be legitimate.
C. supported universal civil rights.
D. very nearly destroyed the nation.

Question 4

According to Elliott, a new political reality that ended race as a barrier to full equality under the law for African Americans had clearly been established in the United States byA. the Emancipation Proclamation.
B. four years of warfare.
C. the “Civil War” amendments.
D. wartime Supreme Court decisions.