What was not an element of abraham lincoln's platform in 1860?

a.) passing a homestead act for western settlement

b.) allowing states to decide on the slavery issue

c.) building a transcontinental railroad

d.) stopping the spread of slavery

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

the term is einsatzgruppen