The purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to guarantee voting rights by __________
A) banning literacy tests and poll taxes
B) solely relying on the Fifteenth Amendment to protect voting rights
C) eliminating Jim Crow laws in the South that led to desegregation
D) fining and jailing any group or person who tried to prevent anyone from voting
A
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A. Japan immediately offered unconditional surrender. B. Over 100,000 were severely injured or sickened. C. Over 130,000 (one-third) of the city's civilians were killed. D. Four out of every five buildings were leveled.
Why was the ideal of a common national culture more elusive in the 1990s?
A. American politics no longer enforced a nationalist ideal. B. Conservative Americans embraced the ever-changing American immigrants. C. Immigrant families viewed being an American in residential and economic terms. D. Immigrant families forbade their children to partake in anything American.
The yeoman farmers of the South ________
A) were typically slave owners B) did not own the land they worked C) were located primarily in the backcountry D) were clustered around the large plantations E) were quite different from their northern counterparts
Mayan males were in charge of growing corn in fields which were cut into the rain forest through ________ techniques.
a. hydroponic cultivation b. cross-pollination c. organic farming d. slash-and-burn cultivation