Text Structures in Plessy v. Ferguson Quiz

Read this excerpt: "Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race." What text structure is primarily used here?

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Argumentative

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read this excerpt: "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane." This is an example of which text structure?

• Persuasion

• Timeline

• Problem and Solution

• Argumentative

Justice Harlan writes: "The present decision will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott Case." What structure does he use here?

• Timeline/Chronology

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Description

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The majority opinion states: "We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority." Which structure is this?

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Persuasion

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read this excerpt: "In the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality." Which text structure is shown?

• Description

• Argumentative

• Timeline

• Cause and Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Justice Harlan states: "In respect of civil rights, common to all citizens, the Constitution of the United States does not, I think, permit any public authority to know the race of those entitled to be protected in the enjoyment of such rights." What structure is primarily used?

• Problem and Solution

• Persuasion

• Cause and Effect

• Timeline

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The majority writes: "Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences." What text structure is used?

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Argumentative

• Persuasion

Read this excerpt: "The argument also assumes that social prejudices may be overcome by legislation, and that equal rights cannot be secured except by enforced commingling of the two races." What structure is evident here?

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Description

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Justice Harlan states: "The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law." What structure is Harlan using?

• Cause and Effect

• Persuasion

• Description

• Timeline

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Read this excerpt: "The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color." Which text structure is present?

• Compare and Contrast

• Timeline

• Argumentative

• Description

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5