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panfilo

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One striking new feature of the 1932 presidential election results was that
 
  a. the South had shifted to the Republican party.
  b. Democrats made political gains in the normally rock-ribbed Republican western states like Kansas.
  c. despite the calamity of the Great Depression, the popular and the electoral vote for president was surprisingly close.
  d. a clear gender gap opened up in which more women favored the Democrats.
  e. African Americans shifted from their Republican allegiance and became a vital element in the Democratic party.

Question 2

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by the needed 38 states largely because
 
  a. the Catholic Church opposed it.
  b. many Americans realized that its goals had already been achieved without amending the Constitution.
  c. an antifeminist backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly stirred sufficient opposition to stop it.
  d. many suspected that it would require such things as rigid quotas and unisex bathrooms.
  e. many Americans believed that equal gender treatment was a matter of changing attitudes, not creating laws.



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Answer to Question 1

e

Answer to Question 2

c



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