How Did Racism Negate the Progress Made by Federal Laws

question 54

Multiple Choice

How did racism negate the progress made by federal laws guaranteeing citizenship to Black Americans?

• A) Jim Crow laws were enforced in the states.
• B) The Civil War disrupted the period of Reconstruction.
• C) Black Americans did not move to the North.
• D) Whites lost trust in the Constitution.

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Definitions:

Untreated Population

A segment of the population that has not received a particular intervention, treatment, or exposure, used as a comparison group in studies and experiments.

Treatment Group

A group of subjects in an experimental study that receives the treatment or intervention being tested, as opposed to a control group that does not.

Placebo Group

A control group in an experiment that receives a sham or inert treatment, allowing researchers to measure the effect of the actual treatment against no treatment.

Significance Level

A threshold set by the researcher before an experiment to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis, typically denoted by alpha (α).