The Ruling Reached by the U

question 52

Multiple Choice

The ruling reached by the U.S.Supreme Court in Smith v.Allwright

• A) declared that gerrymandering based on race is unconstitutional.
• B) brought to an end the white primary by declaring it unconstitutional.
• C) ruled that parties had to open their membership to all races.
• D) found that Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional and banned them.
• E) brought an end to the poll tax by declaring it unconstitutional.

---

Definitions:

Precausal Reasoning

A type of logic in young children characterized by a misunderstanding of cause and effect relationships.

Egocentrism

In Piaget’s terms, the tendency to “center on oneself”—that is, to consider the world entirely in terms of one’s own point of view.

Centered On Oneself

Focused primarily on one's own needs, desires, or emotions, often to the exclusion of others.

Egocentrism

A cognitive bias in young children, and sometimes adults, where one has difficulty understanding or acknowledging perspectives other than one's own.