A member of the New Right who objected to affirmative action was MOST likely to criticize it for
a) Resulting in discrimination against white men
b) Benefiting only professional, white-collar workers
c) Inaccurately determining who qualified as a minority
d) Failing to adequately correct the injustices of the past
Ans: a) Resulting in discrimination against white men
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A) were examples of brilliant strategy. B) were decided by the use of tanks. C) caused enormous casualties to both sides. D) inflicted severe defeats on the Germans. E) brought American troops into the war.
The negotiation of the Treaty of Paris of 1783:
a) was a masterful bit of diplomacy by Thomas Jefferson. b) began only after the Battle of Yorktown. c) gave the new American nation control of Canada. d) led to the reestablishment of the 1763 Proclamation Line dividing Indians and white settlers.
A key element of George H. W. Bush’s victory in the 1988 presidential race was his television ad that depicted __________
A) Willie Horton, a black convicted murderer from Massachusetts B) Jesse Jackson as Dukakis’s foreign policy advisor C) Alice Walker and other black feminists as allies of the Dukakis campaign D) gangsta rappers as a crucial Dukakis constituency
In 2005 Mukhtaran Bibi gained worldwide support when she was sentenced by her Pakistani village council to what punishment?
a. imprisonment b. gang-rape c. having her hands cut off d. beheading e. exile