14. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 14: Reconstruction in South Carolina

**Quiz for Document 14.3: Robert Brown Elliott, In Defense of the Civil Rights Bill (1874)**

Quiz for Document 14.3: Robert Brown Elliott, In Defense of the Civil Rights Bill (1874)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. What does Elliott say motivates him to speak in favor of the passage of the civil rights bill?

The privileges it will guarantee for him

The privileges it will guarantee for African Americans in the South

African Americans’ contributions to the Civil War

The U.S. Constitution

2. Why, according to Elliott, should the Congress disregard Alexander Stephens’s arguments against the passage of the bill?

He made arguments in Congress that favored states’ rights.

He was one of the founders of the Confederacy in 1860.

He is not an experienced legislator.

He did not participate in the military during the Civil War.

3. In urging his fellow legislators to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1875, Elliott characterizes it as

the capstone of liberty, which Americans have pursued since the Revolution.

an imperfect and partial measure, but one step toward full black freedom.

important for protecting the United States from another civil war.

a vital component of a strong national economy.

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