Unlike in the House, the scheduling of legislation in the Senate is
A. controlled by the Rules Committee.
B. initiated by means of a discharge petition.
C. governed by closed rather than open rules.
D. determined by the majority and minority leaders.
E. determined ad hoc.
Answer: D
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Which amendment to the Constitution guaranteed women the right to vote?
A) Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 B) Eighteenth Amendment in 1918 C) Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 D) Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964 E) Twenty-sixth Amendment in 1971
Literacy tests were used to
A. finance election campaigns. B. ensure that the people who voted would take the vote seriously. C. ensure that women voted with their husbands, who legally controlled the money in a marriage. D. help subsidize public education in the North. E. disenfranchise African Americans in the South.
When the ballot is so long that the voter loses interest and stops, it called
A. a quitter B. ballot nullification C. ballot fatigue D. a tactic by the parties to fix the election.
The sensationalist stories of muckrakers can be said to have contributed to the policies of a. Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement
b. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement. c. John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier. d. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.