By the World War I years, the NAACP and the Urban League regularly appealed to employers and unions to accept black laborers

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


Answer: TRUE

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Who were the "Captains of Industry?"

a. Owners of small firms b. railroad lines that controlled the movement goods c. Owners of medium size firms that specialized in consumer goods d. Owners of shipyards with extensive ties to global trade e. Owners or managers of large firms with extraordinary economic and political power

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Alexander the Great

What will be an ideal response?

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As secretary of war, John Floyd of Virginia shipped tons of war materiel to the South in order to aid the infant Confederacy

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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When someone in the household of black physician Ossian H. Sweet fired a fatal shot into the white mob assaulting the Sweet’s new house in a white neighborhood, the Sweets were

a. dragged immediately from their homes and murdered irrespective of their gender. b. arrested and acquitted of all charges thanks to the legal support of the NAACP and famous white attorneys. c. found guilty by an all-white jury, which rejected their pleas of self-defense, sentenced Ossian Sweet and his brother to execution, and sentenced Ossian’s wife to life imprisonment. d. rescued from prison by a black mob and spirited away to Europe to escape prosecution.

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