Perhaps the greatest success story in Africa in recent decades as been in South Africa where in the 1990s
a. the black minority achieved equal rights as the result of a successful revolution.
b. the white majority granted economic equality to the nation's black population.
c. apartheid was abolished and non-whites achieved political and social equality.
d. F. W. de Klerk was elected the nation's first black prime minister.
e. separate regions were set aside for the country's black population.
c
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
President Lincoln's suspension and disregard of several important civil liberties during the Civil War
a. was overridden by a protesting Congress. b. included the suspension of habeas corpus. c. led to the arrest of several critical newspaper editors. d. was allowed by Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court to continue after the war. e. was defended by him as necessary to save the Union.
African slaves labored in plantation conditions on islands off the coast of Africa in the Mediterranean as early as the 1440s. What was one major difference between this system and the Atlantic slave trade?
a) The Atlantic slave trade was exclusively in African slaves and did not include Europeans from Russia and the Balkans. b) The Atlantic slave trade to the Americas was more likely to end with freedom and settlement. c) Conditions in the Americas were more hospitable and there was less exposure to disease. d) Portuguese colonies in the Americas primarily called for domestic servants and semi-skilled laborers.
The first president to attempt seriously to alter the historic pattern of racial discrimination in the United States was __________
A) Harry Truman B) Franklin D. Roosevelt C) Theodore Roosevelt D) John F. Kennedy E) Herbert Hoover