Following the capture of New Orleans by the U.S. Army in 1862, what led General Nathaniel Banks to force blacks to return to plantations?
A) He wanted to avoid riots.
B) He wanted to protect their safety.
C) He wanted them to work for their former owners in the sugar and cotton fields, but now for wages supposedly negotiated annually.
D) He was a supporter of the Confederacy.
C
You might also like to view...
“Authenticity” is a social construct that is ultimately ______.
A. always relative and context dependent B. always false C. either true or false depending on the context and intended audience D. only true to the receiver and not relevant to the sender
How was the black vote related to the desegregation of the military after World War II?
A) Black voters helped to stall the eventual desegregation of the military. B) Black voters made no impact on the pace of desegregation of the military. C) Black voters helped to hasten the desegregation of the military. D) Black voters failed to vote in sufficient numbers to change segregation in the military.
The Korean Tonghak movement included which of the following elements?
a. Hatred of Japan and the West b. Christianity c. Confucianism d. Buddhism e. All of these choices
What did the secretary of state offer in his Marshall Plan?
A. to train free-world armies in the art of oriental hand-to-hand combat B. to provide financial aid to rebuild Europe's war-torn economies C. to station U.S. troops in Europe to defend democratic nations D. to place atomic energy research under United Nations control