intro to south poli

Why were literacy tests implemented?

• To stop minorities from voting

• To ensure voters were citizens

• To determine literacy rates among all voters  

• To ensure voters cast an informed ballot

• To ensure the financial stability of the voter

Scholars of Southern Politics argue that a critical election occurred in the South in what year?

• 1870

• 1900

• 1968

• 1960

• 1876

Which party controlled the Southern region during Reconstruction (1865–1873)?

• Green

• Independent

• Republican

• Democratic

• populist

The deep Southern States are Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Mississippi.

• True

• false

George Wallace was the  Dixiecrat's presidential candidate in the 1948 presidential election.

• false

• true

Which of the following was a device used  to prevent many lower-income persons and minorities from voting after the Civil War?

• gerrymandering

• grandfather clause

• poll tax

• white-only general elections

• Terrorist tactics by the Ku Klux Klan and other lawless groups

After Ronald Reagan became the official presidential candidate for the Republican Party in the 1980s, he delivered a speech in _________________, as discussed in the Introduction to Southern Politics lecture.

• Dallas, Texas

• Montgomery, alabama

• Birmingham, Alabama

• Jackson, Mississippi

• Philadelphia, Mississippi

As stated in the Introduction to Southern Politics lecture, what does the term Solid South refers to?

• When the Southern Region declared its support to the Confederacy.

• The Southern region supported the Democrats Party after Reconstruction ended.

• The Southern region was loyal to the Populist Party. 

• The Southern Region allowed all minorities the right to vote after the 13th Amendment. 

• When the Southern region supported the Republican Party after the Civil War.

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited the states from denying the vote due to race?

• Tenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Twenty-Sixth Amendment

What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the case of Guinn v. United States (1915)?

• Literacy tests were constitutional.

• The grandfather clause was illegal.

• Poll taxes were illegal.

• White primaries were unconstitutional.

• The Fifteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.