Explanation:
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
Answer:
"All your other hopes have merged... engrosses you."
Explanation:
In this sentence, we learn that Scrooge has pursued wealth over other aims. We learn this because of the words the woman says to Scrooge. She tells us that all his "nobler" aspirations have disappeared. She also states that she has seen all of them go, one by one, until the only ambition he has left is that of making more money.
The correct answer is:
The decision by Congress in 1873 to stop buying and minting silver.
The Coinage Act of 1873, signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant, was a general reform of the laws associated with the Mint of the United States.
The act was later criticized by advocates of bimetallism as the "Crime of '73" because it ended bimetallism in the United States, by setting the nation on the gold standard.
