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What advances were made by African Americans and women during the Great Depression

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The Great Depression of the 1930s worsened the already bleak economic situation of African Americans. They were the first to be laid off from their jobs, and they suffered from an unemployment rate two to three times that of whites. In early public assistance programs African Americans often received substantially less aid than whites, and some charitable organizations even excluded blacks from their soup kitchens.

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Answer: House of Representatives

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The Two Houses of Congress. Congress is divided into two chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate is sometimes called the upper chamber and the House the lower chamber because the Founders thought that different sorts of people would be elected to these two bodies.

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Lexington & Concord, MA

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Explanation:

Lexington & Concord, MA happened on April 19, 1775.

Fort Ticonderoga was captured by American forces on May 10, 1775.

Declaration of Independence written & signed was signed on July of 1776.

Trenton and Princeton happened in December 1776.
Saratoga, NY was during October of 1777.
Valley Forge was at the end of 1777.
Monmouth Courthouse battle happened on June 28, 1778

King's Mountain, Cowpens, & Guilford Courthouse (SC, NC) happened in first half of 1781.

Yorktown, VA happened in October 1781.
Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783

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D. Prevent smuggling.

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In common, customs writs of assistance worked as common search warrants that did not terminate, providing customs executives to search wherever for hidden goods without having to receive a particular warrant.

Writ of assistance, in English and American colonial history, a universal search warrant published by superior countrified tribunals to assist the British administration in implementing trade and exploration laws.

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