LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Question
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Who signed both the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965) into law?
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President Kennedy
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President Reagan
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President Johnson
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President Nixon
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Having broken the filibuster, the Senate voted 73-27 in favor of the bill, and Johnson signed it into law on July 2, 1964.
Detailed explanation-2: -credit: Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library. On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights bill into law in a White House ceremony.
Detailed explanation-3: -On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson came to the Capitol to sign the Voting Rights Act. Following a ceremony in the Rotunda, the president, congressional leaders, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and others crowded into the President’s Room near the Senate Chamber for the actual signing.
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