Question

Which of the following tactics did a political party use to reconcile American ideals with public policy? (1 point)
• Hundreds of White and Black people got on buses and rode through the South to test the desegregation of interstate travel by the federal government.
• Leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association lobbied state legislators to pass state amendments to permit women voting rights.
• President Grant, who led Northern armies during the Civil War to defeat the Southern Confederacy, was elected in 1868.
• In Supreme Court case Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, the court ruled that forced busing of students to integrate schools is permissible.

Answer 1

The tactic that best fits the description of a political party using strategies to reconcile American ideals with public policy is:

• Leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association lobbied state legislators to pass state amendments to permit women voting rights.

This action directly aimed at aligning the democratic ideal of suffrage with legislative action to achieve voting rights for women, thus representing a concerted effort to change public policy in line with American democratic principles.