In response to black power rhetoric, FBI Director Herbert Hoover convinced President Lyndon Johnson to unleash:
A) the 101st Airborne Division against militant groups.
B) the Central Intelligence Agency to engage in illegal domestic spying.
C) COINTELPRO, a secret counterintelligence program designed to destroy subversive political organizations.
D) the Poor People's Campaign.
Answer: C
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A. Wittenberg B. Geneva C. Bristol D. Amsterdam
One version of southern tenant farming was the sharecropping system, in which:
a. all of a family's members shared in the harvest even if they did not work on the farm b. the landlord supplied land and a house in return for part, usually half, of the crop c. each family member planted a crop, then pooled it with the family at harvest time d. the tenant farmer provided his own seed, mule, and plow, and gave the landlord one-fourth of the crop
Victoria Woodhull and her sister were prominent advocates of
a. racial equality. b. public health. c. capitalism. d. woman suffrage. e. free love and feminism.
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A) It deprived Europe of the major goods and services. B) It led to weakening of British control over sea routes. C) It severed ties between Britain and the rest of Europe. D) It led to widespread smuggling of goods into America. E) It was a disaster as it imperiled the American economy.