In the context of the freedom of religion, the Supreme Court has ruled that:
A) the right to hold a belief is relative and subject to question by authority.
B) public schools, which are agencies of government, cannot sponsor religious activities.
C) religious beliefs are superior to the law and take precedence over constitutional laws.
D) both public and private schools are barred from teaching about religion.
E) individuals cannot pray, when and as they choose, in schools or in any other place.
B
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In his reelection bid in 1948, Truman made an unprecedented political stand by
A) campaigning on a platform of support for civil rights. B) calling for the nationalization of America's largest industries. C) appealing to the radical left's social and economic agenda. D) demanding America make peacetime coalitions for mutual defense.
When the organized anti-slavery movement in the United States began in the late 1700s, what was meant by the concept of gradual emancipation?
a. Gradual emancipation was meant to give the freed slaves plenty of time to assimilate into society by gradually releasing them from property status. b. Advocates of gradual emancipation believed that by preventing the extension of slavery to new areas and relocating emancipated slaves outside of the U.S., slavery would eventually die out. c. Gradual emancipation referred to outright abolition of slavery, but only in one state at a time. d. Gradual emancipation meant a quick and decisive abolition of slavery, and was called “progressive” because it indicated an immediate step forward. e. Gradual emancipation meant that the states, due to their inability to eliminate slavery, would surrender sovereignty to the federal government in order to abolish slavery.