Round 11: Tossup 18
Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description acceptable. The non-exclusivity of this status was solidified in the Bancroft Treaties. A defendant unknowingly granted this status was denied it in Perez v. Brownwell, which was overturned nine years later in Afroyim v. Rusk. The rights granted by this status were found not to apply to unionized butchers in the Slaughter-House Cases. United States v. Wong Kim Ark affirmed the jus soli principle for granting this status, which was found to not apply for slaves in Dred Scott v. Sandford. An oral civics test is a requirement for attaining this status. For 10 points, name this status granted by the Fourteenth Amendment to individuals born on United States soil. ■END■
ANSWER: United States citizenship [or being a citizen or national of the United States of America or equivalents; accept US or USA or America in place of “United States”; accept citizenship or natural born-citizenship alone after “United States” is read; prompt on citizenship or natural-born citizenship alone before “United States” is read by asking “of what country?”; prompt on being born in the United States by asking “what status does that grant the individual?”; prompt on being American or from the United States or being native to the United States]
<Editors, American History> | Packet K
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