The _____ outlawed attempts to deny suffrage to African Americans through literacy tests, poll taxes, or any other attempt to disfranchise citizens
A) Twenty-fourth Amendment
B) Interstate Commerce Commission
C) Civil Rights Act of 1964
D) Twenty-fifth Amendment
E) Voting Rights Act of 1965
E
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Barack Obama named __________ as secretary of state when he took office in 2009.
A. John Kerry
B. Al Gore
C. Hillary Clinton
D. Bill Richardson
A good example of Europeans building on rather than just borrowing technologies from other civilizations is
a. the compass. b. gunpowder cannon. c. paper-making. d. none of the above.
How did the feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony react to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment?
a. The two encouraged the nation's feminists to support the amendment, stating this was the "Negro's hour" and that women could afford to wait a few years for the vote. b. Although they publicly supported the amendment, private correspondence indicates that both women feared the impact the Negro vote could potentially have on women's suffrage. c. Stanton's support of the amendment and Anthony's opposition led to a temporary split in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. d. Angered that the Constitution was being amended to, in effect, make gender a qualification for voting, they campaigned against ratification of the amendment.
The first goal of postwar expansionists in the United States after 1815 was to __________
a. obtain the Pacific Northwest from Great Britain b. obtain Florida from Spain c. acquire the former French colony of Louisiana d. develop the trans-Appalachian West e. eradicate the Native Americans