What was a result of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)?
a. Same-sex married couples did not count in the Census.
b. Same-sex married couples received more legal rights.
c. Married heterosexual couples experienced greater public scrutiny.
d. Married heterosexual couples lost some tax benefits.
a
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Ordered the removal of Japanese Americans to camps?
A) General DeWitt B) General Eisenhower C) President Roosevelt D) the U.S. Supreme Court
Research shows that foreign-born citizens make up a substantial proportion of engineers and scientists working in the U.S. Proponents of immigration claim that these individuals are occupying valuable jobs in the U.S. economy, so limitations on immigration policy should be enforced. What is one potential limitation of this conclusion?
What will be an ideal response?
Among other things, the Immigration Act of 1924 severely limited the number of Asians allowed to immigrate to the U.S. The law is an example of
a. integration. b. racial common sense. c. institutionalized discrimination. d. absorption assimilation.
The systematic ranking of different groups of people in a disparate hierarchy is referred to as ______.
A. social stratification B. social inequality C. class differences D. class status