The purpose of the 21st Amendment, enacted in December 1933, was to
A) repeal the Prohibition Amendment.
B) give women the right to vote.
C) enlarge the size of the Supreme Court.
D) outlaw discrimination in federal hiring.
E) change the date of the presidential inauguration from March to January.
Ans: A) repeal the Prohibition Amendment.
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A) Cultural influences flowed in both directions, with each culture influencing the other. B) Ottoman scholars came west, but few Europeans went east. C) Ottoman conquest of Constantinople delayed the onset of the Renaissance. D) Western merchants and artists had little interest in or contract with the Ottomans. E) Ottoman rulers refused to let Italian artists and architects work in Istanbul.
For most Cincinnati workers before the Civil War, a manufacturing job
A) imposed a form of "wage slavery." B) encouraged the "manly virtues." C) depended upon worker skills. D) guaranteed a decent livelihood.
The 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction proposed
(A) A plan for Radical Reconstruction (B) The Ten-Percent Plan (C) The Fifty-Percent Plan (D) Andrew Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction
Under Gorbachev, the Soviet Union began a restructuring (perestroika) process and an opening (glasnost) toward the West
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.