Black candidates for office were LEAST likely to be
A. fugitive slaves who had returned from the North.
B. ministers or educators.
C. southern blacks who had been free for generations.
D. impoverished freedpeople from the South.
Answer: D
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Why were some blacks attracted to the Communist Party during the 1930s?
A) The Communist Party vowed to establish a separate nation for them in Africa. B) The Communist Party said it was against racism, but never did anything to prove it. C) The Communist Party worked to reduce unemployment and worked against racism. D) The Communist Party was a large, mainstream party in the 1930s with many members.
Despite the benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists disliked the system because it
a. forced the South to adopt a one-crop economy. b. favored the northern over the southern colonies. c. reinforced class differences in the colonies. d. reinforced dependence on the mother country and stifled economic initiative. e. encouraged harsh repression by British officials.
Which of the following reflected new artistic trends of the 1920s?
a. the Realist School. b. James Joyce's Ulysses. c. Hermann Hesse's Dada Dance. d. New York city's Twin Towers. e. the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Why was the white South so fearful of Abraham Lincoln?
A) Lincoln had run for president as the candidate who would end slavery in the South. B) Southern whites were convinced Lincoln would do what he could to undermine slavery. C) Lincoln had outlined a plan for the colonization of the South. D) Southern whites saw all Northerners as deadly threats to their independence.