The Civil Rights Act of 1964 also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that benefitted workers by __________.
A. permitting labor unions to organize strikes against employers who practiced racial discrimination
B. investigating and litigating cases of job discrimination
C. raising wages for non-white laborers
D. allowing female employees to work six instead of eight hours a day
Answer: B
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The "Diplomatic Revolution" of 1756 was __________.
A. a new idea of how alliances could be used B. a shift in alliances C. the alliance of most of Europe against Austria D. a division of Europe into east and west
Randolph Bourne's vision of America was one in which
a. with suppression of dissent within the United States, the American melting pot would create liberty and justice for all. b. a cosmopolitan, democratic society in which immigrants and natives would together create a new "trans-national" culture. c. assimilation was deemed compulsory. d. a strong military would make America preeminent in the world.
The Panic of 1819 reflected the:
A) concern over the institution of slavery. B) transition from a farming to a more commercial economy. C) fear of Native and European encroachment on the economy. D) negative international response to the Monroe Doctrine.
Between the mid-1930s and the end of World War II,
A. Chiang Kai-shek finally obtained a firm grip on all but northwest China, and implemented a "crash program" of modernization, which won peasant support. B. the Chinese Communists steadily increased their power so that by 1945 up to thirty million people were under their control. C. Japan made peace with Chiang in 1940, joining him in a war against Mao's Communists. D. Mao Zedong married Chiang's daughter, which reunited China until the late 1950s. E. the Chinese Communist party changed its focus from organizing peasants to winning over the middle class city dwellers and the large bankers in Shanghai.