Opponents of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act calculated that
a. they had enough votes from senators and congressmen opposed to racial equality to defeat the bill in the House and Senate.
b. it would fail because liberals would not be able to support legislation that would end laws that gave women special protections.
c. it would be derailed by the inclusion of sexual orientation in the new law.
d. discrimination in hiring would not be eliminated by this law.
e. Southern Democrats would be able to filibuster the bill in the Senate to death.
b
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President Andrew Johnson was
A) impeached by the House and convicted by a two-thirds majority of the Senate. B) neither impeached by the House nor convicted by the Senate. C) impeached by the Senate, but not convicted by a two-thirds majority of the House. D) impeached by the House, but not convicted by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.
In 1996, California voters passed a controversial ballot initiative known as Proposition 209, which
A. provided stiffer penalties for employing illegal aliens in California. B. eliminated racial and gender preferences in hiring and college admissions. C. established immigration quotas for the state. D. tightened work restrictions on illegal aliens.
Siddhartha Gautama
A) was born a prince of the Shakyas of India. B) defined the Middle Way to human happiness. C) renounced his birthright to become an ascetic. D) discovered the Four Noble Truths. E) all of the above.
___________ is a Trinidadian author of Indian descent who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.
A. Anita Desai B. Salman Rushdie C. R. K. Narayan. D. V. S. Naipaul. E. E. M. Forster.