Why were white women among the major beneficiaries of affirmative action?
A) because gender discrimination in employment was made illegal by the 1964 Civil Rights Act
B) because women’s groups effectively lobbied Congress in the 1970s
C) because conservative Republicans favored affirmative action for women
D) because the Supreme Court ruled that gender discrimination in employment violated the Fourteenth Amendment
Answer: A
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What was Lincoln's early military policy toward the Confederacy?
a. He wanted to take the South back by force as soon as possible. b. He wanted the South to be responsible for starting the war. c. He wanted the North to take the first military action. d. He wanted the North to refrain from military action regardless of southern actions. e. He wanted to start the war with a decisive Union victory in a key southern city.
Weimar Germany?s most serious handicap was the insecurity of the middle classes caused by the
A) economic chaos caused by inflation in the 1920s and depression in the early 1930s. B) fear of communist revolution. C) activities of the Nazis and other right-wing extremist parties. D) rise of totalitarian governments in Italy and Portugal. E) free trade movement.
By 1914, what percentage of Britain's population lived in cities?
A) 95 percent B) 50 percent C) 10 percent D) 40 percent E) 80 percent
What was Lincoln's primary goal immediately following the Civil War?
a. paying off the debts of the war b. punishing the rebel states c. reunifying the country d. improving the lives of former slaves