Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps due to their ancestry.
Peaceful relations with neighboring American Indian groups and fertile farmland helped Penn's experiment become a success. Philadelphia grew into one of the most important cities in colonial America, becoming the birthplace of the U.S. Constitution.
Congress played a significant role in expanding rights to marginalized Americans during the 20th century. Here are a few examples.
1) 19th amendment- This constitutional amendment gave women in the United States the right to vote.
2) Civil Rights Act 1964- This law ended segregation in public places. This included movie theaters, restaurants, parks, etc.
3) Voting Rights Act of 1965- This law got rid of poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests. During the late 19th and early 20th century, all of these were used as a means to prevent African-American citizens from voting. Thanks to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, all of these types of obstacles to stop African-Americans from voting were now illegal.
The correct answer is D) Joseph McCarthy.
McCarthy was a Senator from the state of Wisconsin during the 1950's. At this time, McCarthy claimed to have a list of 207 names of individuals within the US government that were communists. This accusation was seen as an immediate threat to American society, as the US was trying to stop the spread of communism on a global scale. The accusations raised fear and suspicion throughout American society. This era is now known as the second Red Scare.
The correct answer is B) The existence of slavery in the South.
The institution did Tocqueville see as an important exception to America’s egalitarianism was the existence of slavery in the South.
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French sociologist interested in political studies who traveled to the United States to research the operation systems in American prisons but ended up broadening his research to different aspects of American society.
He was very impressed with what he saw regarding the economic and political stability of the United States and its democracy. Indeed he ended up publishing a book in 1835 called "Democracy in America."
However, the institution that Tocqueville saw as an important exception to America’s egalitarianism was the existence of slavery in the South.
