As a result of election-law reform in the late 19th and early 20th century,
a. blacks in the South were largely disenfranchised.
b. Asian immigrants were granted voting rights when they became citizens.
c. all citizens over the age of 18 were granted voting rights.
d. it became possible to register and vote on the same day.
e. more immigrants became involved in politics.
a
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A) Gadsden Purchase. B) Treaty of Vera Cruz. C) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. D) Treaty of San Juoaquin.
The Chinese premier from 1982 to 1987 was ________
A) Deng Xiaoping B) Mao Zedong C) Jiang Zemin D) Xi Jinping
While the stated purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation," in practice
A. it antagonized the Soviets to the point that it led to direct military confrontation with the Soviet Union. B. it allowed Soviet expansion as long as the United States was not directly threatened. C. it led the United States to support dictatorial regimes as long as they sided with the United States and against the Soviet Union or leftist governments. D. only those countries with militaries capable of fighting proxy wars against communist regimes were supported.
All of the following factors contributed to the legalization of slavery in Virginia in the second half of the seventeenth century EXCEPT
a. English colonists began to enslave large numbers of Native Americans for the first time in the wake of Bacon’s Rebellion. b. birth rates in England began to decline which helped to make the people of England less inclined to indenture themselves as servants in America. c. high death rates in the first half of the seventeenth century had left the colony of Virginia in relatively short supply of laborers. d. planters’ need for workers to clear forests and cultivate crops continued to grow.