The Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers convicted and sentenced to death for the alleged rape of two white women,
A. None of these answers is correct.
B. were ultimately freed as a result of a Supreme Court decision.
C. had their conviction overturned, only to have five of them later reconvicted.
D. all served their full sentences.
Answer: C
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With the influx of Irish and German immigrants to the United States, Catholics became accepted members of society
A) False B) True
Which describes the Puritans' attitude toward the Church of England in the early seventeenth century?
A) They wanted to separate from the Church and form their own congregation. B) They believed that the Church did not align itself closely enough with the Pope. C) They supported the English kings, not the bishops, as their spiritual leaders. D) They felt that the Church had lost too many Catholic rituals to be meaningful. E) They wanted to improve the Church of England from within.
Which of the following was a function of the L’Accademia dei Lincei?
A) reviewing proposals for heresy B) publishing discoveries and theories C) preserving the writings of the ancient Greeks D) translating the works of Islamic scholars
In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations
A. led to more diversification in corporate research. B. developed similar research goals as in Europe. C. occurred as federal funding for research greatly expanded. D. centralized the sources of research funding. E. was deemed unnecessary, since so many American university laboratories existed.