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SAT US History Practice Question

As a result of President Truman's insistence that the Democratic Party include a civil rights plank in its 1948 platform,

  1. A.substantial numbers of white voters abandoned the Democratic Party, allowing the Republican Party to win the general election that November.
  2. B.Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act within the next four years.
  3. C.African American activists, encouraged that civil rights were becoming part of the national debate, founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
  4. D.Martin Luther King Jr. was encouraged to organize the March on Washington.
  5. E.many Southern Democrats, or Dixiecrats, left the Democratic convention and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party.

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