The Supreme Court’s ruling in the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder case __________
a) struck down a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
b) indicated that further laws were needed to completely enforce integration
c) reversed a previous ruling by stating that segregation had reappeared in school districts
d) reinstated Plessy v. Ferguson
Answer: a
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The election of 1856 was __________
A) two separate contests for the North and South B) a return to power of the Whig Party C) a victory for Fillmore D) a setback for Democrats
The novelist William Dean Howells remarked, “It is in these things of iron and steel that the national genius most freely speaks.” Which of the following is an example of the “things” to which Howells refers?
a) Corliss engine b) garment industry c) labor unions d) iron law of wages
Fourierist and Owenite experiments both attacked
A) gender equality. B) wage labor. C) patriarchy. D) procreation.
During the Great Depression, President Hoover permitted the Federal Farm Board to
A) authorize a reduction in wages and output. B) increase tariffs so that any excess food would be used for domestic consumption. C) check the rapid increase in agricultural prices. D) establish stabilization corporations to purchase surplus wheat and cotton.