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stephzh

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The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, granted
 
  a. women the right to vote.
  b. African American men the right to vote for the first time.
  c. the right to equal education regardless of race or gender.
  d. the right to affirmative action in employment procedures.
  e. eighteen-year-olds the right to vote.

Question 2

David Baldus studied the death penalty and its impact on minorities in the early 1990s. What one frequently quoted finding of his study?
 
  a. The use of the death penalty was proportionate to the racial mix of society as a whole.
  b. Killers of whites are 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than killers of blacks.
  c. Blacks commit murder more frequently than whites.
  d. A killer of a white victim is less likely than a killer of a black victim to receive the death penalty.
  e. Blacks are more heavily represented on death row than whites, but more whites are actually executed.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A

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ANS: B





 

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