Your authors attribute the increase in black voter participation and the increase in the number of minority people who are now serving in public office to which of the following?
A) the Fifteenth Amendment
B) the Civil Rights Act of 1964
C) the Voting Rights Act of 1965
D) the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
E) lowering the cost of the poll tax
Question -2-One major problem in democracies is how to
a. form factions.
b. get the wealthy into power.
c. get the majority to promote the rights and interests of all.
d. effectively manage polling places.
e. establish restrictions on voting rights.
Question -3-The total value of all taxes collected by government at all levels, federal, state, and local, is
A) over half of the nation's income.
B) higher than in most other economically-advanced countries.
C) subject to a ceiling imposed by Congress.
D) about 35 percent of gross domestic product.
E) enough to run the government and maintain a budget surplus.
Question -4-Which of the following was a result of passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A) Within two years black voter registration increased.
B) White voter registration increased in a number of southern states.
C) The Voting Rights Act of 1965 had no impact on voter registration in the United States.
D) a and b.
E) States attempted to secede.
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