Why did Congress pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A. to facilitate the prosecution of those who had restricted the voting rights of African Americans
B. because it was clear that the South had no intention of living up to the spirit of the Fifteenth Amendment
C. because Congress was afraid the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. would lead a boycott of white businesses if the legislation was not passed
D. to prevent the race riots from spreading from African American neighborhoods into traditionally white neighborhoods
Answer: B
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Not until Congress passed the _____ in 1965 did the federal government begin to enforce the right of African Americans to vote
a. Voting Rights Act b. Civil Rights Act c. Universal Suffrage Act d. Fourteenth Amendment e. Twenty-sixth Amendment
What event sparked the formation of the McGovern?Fraser Commission?
A)the creation of the Bull Moose party by Theodore Roosevelt B)the "corrupt bargain" between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay C)thenomination of Hubert Humphrey at the 1968 Democratic Convention D)the assassination of anti-war candidate Senator Robert Kennedy
Every argument about politics and policies is based upon
a. factual evidence gleaned from history. b. an identifiable series of assumptions. c. one of four theoretical perspectives. d. experiences of humans in different cultural contexts.