How did the Louisiana Purchase impact the United States?
A) The new lands gave the United States Florida.
B) The acquisition doubled the size of the country.
C) It gave the Great Lakes region to the United States.
D) It blocked the United States' access to the Gulf of Mexico.
Answer: B
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A. required each state to pass its own civil rights laws B. worked to gain full black male suffrage C. gained passage of the Fourteenth Amendment D. gained passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
a. whites left the South in record numbers. b. centuries of discrimination and oppression ended. c. whites refused to do business with blacks. d. black southerners gained new power in the region. e. the South became strongly Democratic.
Gendered wording in job ads is an example of ______.
A. explicit sexism and discrimination B. old-fashioned sexism C. occupational segregation D. subtle ways modern sexism persists
The first superpower confrontation over decolonized territory was in ______________.
A. Cuba B. North Korea C. China D. Vietnam E. India