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Question 48 • EA Academy Civics 9

Which scenario best describes the effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Answer

A group of female students are allowed to join their school’s engineering club. Previously, only male students could join the club.

A young student is deaf. She has an interpreter who helps her in class and receives speech therapy as part of her educational plan.

A construction company is building a new hotel. The plans call for all doorways to be wide enough for a wheelchair to fit easily through them.

It is 1964. A restaurant in a southern state abandons its policy of not serving African Americans. Anyone can now sit at the lunch counter and be served.

Explanation

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits disability discrimination and requires accessibility in many public places and businesses. Designing the hotel’s doorways to accommodate wheelchairs is an example of making a building accessible. The interpreter and speech therapy in choice B are more closely associated with educational services, while choices A and D concern sex and racial discrimination.

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