Describe the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 . Why were they necessary, given that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were enacted decades before?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Describe the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations involving interstate commerce.
2, Describe the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as protecting the right to vote regardless of race or ethnicity.
3, Explain how the South had successfully avoided the promises of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments through various mechanisms including Jim Crow laws and literacy tests. Since it appeared that the South would never rescind these laws itself, Congress stepped in to pass these two landmark pieces of legislation.
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a. result in a shift of governmental resources toward military spending b. result in a transition to democracy c. result in a more personalist regime d. result in a relative stable and legitimate regime
What is the most frequently occurring value?
a.) the mode b.) the variation ratio c.) frequency distribution d.) the median