Which of the following statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is LEAST accurate?
a. Following the assassination of President Kennedy, the act was swept through Congress without meaningful opposition.
b. In order to hasten the desegregation of public schools, the U.S. Office of Education was authorized to actively assist local communities in that process.
c. It required that any program receiving federal monies had to abolish discriminatory practices or lose its funding.
d. It gave the U.S. Attorney General greater power to protect against discrimination in schools, public facilities, and the ballot box
a. Following the assassination of President Kennedy, the act was swept through Congress without meaningful opposition.
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A) at the beginning of the war B) through government films detailing Nazi atrocities C) only as the war entered its final stages D) as European Jewish refugees flooded into the United States from 1941 onward
Which of the following best explains the fact that ancient Egypt left no written law codes?
A) The pharaoh was a god on earth and thus the source of all law and justice. B) Egyptian society was so unsophisticated that laws were not needed. C) Ancient Egyptians had no means of writing down their laws. D) Egyptians were expected to care for themselves without government oversight. E) Families—not the pharaoh or abstract laws—held final power.
The South furiously objected to the House's passage of the Tallmadge amendment to the Missouri statehood bill because
a. they believed it would threaten the sectional balance. b. they saw Missouri as their key chance to gain a slaveholding majority in the Senate. c. they thought it would slow the growth of the West. d. they realized it would open the door to radical abolitionism. e. they saw Missouri as the key to the future of slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory.
Which of these tasks did the Nahua consider to be women's work?
a. Ancestor worship b. Harvesting crops c. Grinding corn d. Leading soldiers in battle e. Buying and selling