The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees that no citizen will be denied the right to vote based upon their "race, color, or previous position of servitude." The Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870 and was the third and final Reconstruction Amendment. This amendment was a major amendment in advancing racial equality in the United States in that it guaranteed African Americans the right to vote. However, it would continue to take years before the spirit of this law was fully implemented and continues to be challenged today in the courts.
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The response is Option D. New grain crops developed in the Green Revolution is NOT something that contributed to worldwide population growth at that time.
Explanation:
The Green Revolution refers to a push towards technological advancement and agriculturally engineered outputs like high-yielding varieties and crops in the 1950s and 1960s. It was particularly impactful in developing countries where there had yet to be much industrialization or mechanization of food production. Advances in irrigation and the use of chemical fertilizers also helped to increase food production in these areas in the 1950s and 1960s. Research institutes studying specific staple crops were established like the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines in 1960.
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After reading the excerpt from "On the Gull's Road." The word acrimony means:
Explanation:
- "On the Gull's Road" is a short story that is written by Willa Cather. The theme of this story is undying love even death is near.
- In the given excerpt the words "I told him curtly that he was mistaken, but my acrimony made no impression upon his blandness. I felt that I should certainly strike the fellow if he stood there much longer, running his blue ring up and down his beard. I should probably have hated any man who was Mrs. Ebbling's husband, but Ebbling made me sick." These words show that narrator is very angry with Mrs. Ebbling's husband.
