Prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 __________
A) northern blacks had not been allowed to vote in city elections
B) Lyndon Johnson had not been a strong advocate of civil rights legislation
C) the Republican Party had been the lone supporter of civil rights
D) the vast majority of blacks in the South were denied the right to vote
Answer: D
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A) holding the colonial cities and abandoning the countryside to the colonists. B) pursuing and destroying the main Continental Army. C) cutting off New England from the remainder of the colonies. D) invading the Southern colonies.
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A) a dramatic fall in prices. B) a dramatic rise in prices. C) a failure of the grain market. D) a widespread famine. E) a population decline which led to massive unemployment.
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A) ?Constantine claimed to see a vision of God. B) ?Constantine claimed to see a prophecy of defeat. C) ?Constantine ordered the sacrifice of a senator's daughter. D) ?Constantine ordered a bonfire to burn the sins of his soldiers. E) ?Constantine executed his most trusted general.
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A) stopped attending services by 1900 B) believed the school was the center of life C) were church-attending Protestants D) had few private moral standards E) were Roman Catholic parishioners