Sec. 2. No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political
subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States
to vote on account of race or color.- Voting Rights Act of 1965 How did
this Act help expand the rights to citizens? *

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

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the causes of the dust bowls were severe droughts,   lands became dry and hard, temperature was higher than usual, hot and dry conditions killed crops, high winds. because of those factors, the winds kicked up dry soil and created clouds of dust.