WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bidwell, Dooley v. United States, and Downes v. Bidwell, were dubbed “Insular Tariff Cases” in the 1901 report in which their rulings were published. Overall, the rulings in the Insular Cases complicated the question of which Constitutional rights are granted to citizens of U.S. territories.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scholars unanimously agree that the Insular Cases gave the Court’s sanction to U.S. colonial rule over the unincorporated territories-and that the reason for it was racism.

Detailed explanation-3: -1 Amici have written and edited works about the Supreme Court’s early-twentieth-century decisions known collectively as the Insular Cases, in which the Court held that noncontiguous islands annexed at the end of the nineteenth century were part of the United States for some purposes but not for others.

Detailed explanation-4: -False-The Supreme Court ruled in the Insular Cases that the U.S. Constitution DID NOT automatically applied to people in acquired territories.