Dower rights provided a widow with about ____________________ of her husband's estate if he preceded her in death
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
one-third
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Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall used all of the following tactics in the courts to "chip away" at segregation EXCEPT
A) force states to pay all teachers the same wage regardless of race. B) demonstrate that schools were not providing equal accommodations for black and white students as required under Plessy v. Ferguson. C) sue the federal government for its failure to force the states to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. D) make segregation as expensive as possible to the states by forcing them to live up to "separate but equal."
Compare the relations between the English and Indians in Virginia, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and Pennsylvania
What will be an ideal response?
The 1996 welfare reform bill ended a fifty-year federal guarantee of assistance to families with dependent children
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The key issue dividing the two major parties in the late 1880s was ________ policy
A) Indian B) tariff C) land D) currency