The legal precedent for the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education was
a. the 1943 Supreme Court decision involving Gordon Hirabayashi, in which the plaintiff's lawyer argued that a law was constitutional only if it applied to all citizens, not a specific group.
b. the 1947 federal court decision in a case brought by the League of United Latin American Citizens against several Orange County school districts where LULAC argued that creating separate schools for Mexican American students violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
c. the 1941 creation of the Fair Employment Practice Commission to investigate workplace discrimination.
d. the 1943 repeal of exclusion acts that had targeted Asians, followed by the postwar War Brides Act, which allowed Chinese and Filipino men to bring their wives to the United States.
b
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The United States seized control of the Hawaiian Islands from Spain in 1898.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Until the 1840s, the North and the South were similar in which of the following ways?
A. Both regions tried to apply the states' rights doctrine against federal authority with nearly equal frequency. B. Both regions had an equal commitment to industrialization. C. Slavery was clearly profitable in both regions. D. Both regions invested heavily in the building of canals and railroads.
A probable contributing factor to the rise of individualism in the West was
a. the Second Vatican Council. b. the economic depression of the 1950s to 1960s. c. increasing religious fundamentalism during the post-war period. d. the high unemployment rates following the war.
Ignatius of Loyola was the founder of
A) the Capuchin Order. B) the Brothers of the Common Life. C) the Society of Jesus. D) the Swiss Brethren. E) the Dominican Order.