The first state to recognize civil unions between partners of the same sex was __________
A) Massachusetts
B) New York
C) California
D) Vermont
D
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"Machine politics" was
A) a form of urban politics where local politicians, known as bosses, dominated urban areas. B) a form of urban politics where the boss of an unofficial political organization controlled a particular party or faction in office. C) a social theory in which all interest groups in society meshed together like the parts of a machine. D) a derisive term given to voting machines when urban reformers first introduced them. E) a form of urban politics influenced by the ideas of reformers.
Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England?
a. a single young woman whose attractiveness meant that some saw her as a threat to Puritan values b. a married woman who normally was subservient to her husband and the community, which made her behavior seem all the more bizarre c. a widow who presumably was too lonely or too dependent on the community to be taken seriously, but who had to be tried and convicted to keep others from thinking similarly d. a married woman who had just lost a child e. a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband
The Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade declared state laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional because they
a. violated the First Amendment by using a religious definition of person. b. violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by placing a particular burden on women not placed on men. c. wrote into law a particular philosophical and scientific view of human life that imposed unfair treatment on those who disagreed. d. violated the Fifth Amendment by interfering with doctors' professional medical practices. e. violated a woman's constitutional right to privacy in her own person.