In Which Case Did the U

question 43

Multiple Choice

In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court interpret literacy tests as excluding Blacks on the basis of literacy, not race, because the tests also excluded illiterate whites not covered by grandfather clauses; thus, the tests did not violate the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments?

• A) Smith v. Allwright
• B) Williams v. State of Mississippi
• C) Plessy v. Ferguson
• D) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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Definitions:

Interval Estimation

A range of values, calculated from sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Test Statistic

A value, derived from sample data, used in hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Sample Standard Deviation

A measure of the variability or dispersion of a sample data set, quantifying the extent to which the numbers vary from the sample mean.

Confidence Interval Estimate

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a specified level of confidence.