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Disability rights activists' protests and pressure on elected officials resulted in some lasting improvements in everyday life, including all of the following except
 
  a. state funding for a network of Centers for Independent Living to allow disabled people to live outside of institutional settings.
  b. 1973 Rehabilitation Act, which prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities by any program or agency receiving federal funds.
  c. changes to improve disabled persons' access to buildings, sidewalks, public transportation, and so forth.
  d. the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, which extended civil rights protections to handicapped people.

Question 2

The accomplishments of the women's movement in California in the 1970s and 1980s include all of the following except
 
  a. the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in Congress and its ratification in California.
  b. comparable worth legislation in setting salaries for women in state employment.
  c. ending sex segregation in the state's labor market.
  d. electing several women as mayors of major cities and other local high offices.



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

c



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