Which of the following is true about the Scottsboro Nine case?
a. It only took a year to get their convictions overturned and have them outside again.
b. It was the first racially charged case of such a kind in the state of Illinois.
c. It involved spurious charges of rape against nine African American men and adolescents.
d. The Scottsboro Nine were tried by a jury of their peers.
C
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The Boland Amendment
A) prohibited assistance to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. B) prohibited the sale of weapons to Iran. C) prohibited trade with the Soviet Union. D) repealed the embargo on trade with Cuba.
Walter Lippmann, a cofounder of the New Republic, claimed, in the period before World War I, that mankind could achieve all of the following except
a. the sublimation of evil. b. the conquest of social problems through reason and technology. c. the perfectibility of man and society. d. the establishment of a "Christian World Order."
Which of the following is a significant effect of the Louisiana Purchase?
A) It sharply divided the Democratic-Republicans. B) It forged a new coalition between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. C) It sharpened the political divide between East and West. D) It reversed the roles of Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.