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(09.03 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”If protected conduct is made criminal and the law which does so remains unexamined for its substantive validity, its stigma might remain even if it were not enforceable as drawn for equal protection reasons. When homosexual conduct is made criminal by the law of the State, that declaration in and of itself is an invitation to subject homosexual persons to discrimination both in the public and in the private spheres…The Texas statute furthers no legitimate state interest which can justify its intrusion into the personal and private life of the individual…They (the writers of the Constitution and its amendments) knew times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.”Source: Justice Anthony Kennedy, Lawrence v. Texas, 2003Which of the following does the decision in Lawrence v. Texas represent?

(06.06 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master…The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States…We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.”Source: Mary Elizabeth Lease, Farmer’s Alliance member, circa 1890Based on this quote, with which statement would Lease agree?

(06.04 LC)Which of these increased rapidly during the first several decades of the Second Industrial Revolution?

(07.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”The long trial has proved that the object for which Spain has waged the war cannot be attained. The fire of insurrection may flame or may smolder with varying seasons, but it has not been, and it is plain that it cannot be, extinguished by present methods. The only hope of relief and repose from a condition which can no longer be endured is the enforced pacification of Cuba.In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop. In view of these facts and of these considerations, I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the government of Spain and the people of Cuba, and to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government, capable of maintaining order and observing its international obligations, insuring peace and tranquility and the security of its citizens as well as our own, and to use the military and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary for these purposes.”Source: President William McKinley, speech to Congress 1898The United States retreated from the position in world affairs established by McKinley by

(06.03 LC)Why did business owners in the late 19th century attempt to establish trusts?

(08.01 MC)Which statement explains how the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis affected the Cold War?

(06.05 MC)Which of the following 20th century events is similar in nature to the Social Gospel movement that arose in the Gilded Age?

(06.06 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is not precedent in the history of the world; our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must, within a few weeks or months, be exchanged for billions of dollars’ worth of commodities consumed in their production; the existing currency supply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; the results are falling prices, the formation of combines and rings, the impoverishment of the producing class.”Source: Populist Party Platform, 1892According to Populists, how would the free coining of silver address the problems outlined in the party’s platform?

(08.06 LC)What form of protest is most often associated with American Indians in the 1960s and 1970s?

(08.06 LC)What form of protest is most often associated with American Indians in the 1960s and 1970s?