Why was Jackie Robinson able to achieve success as an American icon while Paul Robeson’s career declined?
a) he voiced support for Cold War anticommunism
b) his talent as a public speaker surpassed Robeson’s
c) he accepted support of white segregationists in return for silence on racial issues
d) he worked under a false name to protect his private life
Answer: a
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Charlemagne was grandson of Charles Martel, who stopped the Muslim armies at Tours. In his general policies and political preferences, all of the following are valid EXCEPT:
a. He represented the first full synthesis of Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultural elements. b. He forged a distinctive Western cultural identity and raised its status. c. He was able to severely limit the Church’s influence so they could not pull political power from him. d. His imperial status was recognized by the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid.
Explain how Scandinavia solved the economic and social problems of the postwar years in comparison to Italy
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After the Dorr Rebellion in the early 1840s, the state government of Rhode Island
A) accepted John Dorr as its governor B) accepted the Dorrite constitution C) drafted a new, more democratic, constitution D) decided to let women vote in state elections
One legacy of the colonial period for independent Latin America was
A) a tradition of unbiased public service and integrity on the part of government officials. B) a tradition of autonomy for the municipality in relation to the central government. C) a massive concentration of power in the central government and bureaucracy. D) the contrast between such nominal concentration of power and the effective supremacy of great landowners on the local level.