Thirty-seven thousand African American servicemen gave their lives as Union soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, a rate of loss about 40 percent higher than that among white soldiers. Why did black soldiers fight and die so fiercely?
A. They hoped to win their civil rights after the war.
B. The freedom of their race hung in the balance.
C. More than for a white soldier, their capture by rebel forces might mean death.
D. All of these answers are correct.
Answer: D
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A) short in duration. B) steadily increasing. C) non-existent. D) long-lasting.
The Aztec chief Moctezuma allowed Cortés to enter the capital of Tenochtitlán because
a. Cortés's army was so powerful. b. Moctezuma believed that Cortés was the god Quetzalcoatl. c. there was little in the city of interest to the Spanish. d. he was told to by the gods. e. his translator Malinche persuaded him to do so.
By 1900, congressional legislation barred ____ from immigrating to America
a. illiterates b. the Chinese c. foreign workers under contract labor for substandard wages d. Jews e. socialists
All of the following were significant cultural phenomena of the 1970s EXCEPT
A. massive religious movements. B. self-improvement regimes. C. evangelical Christianity. D. attachment parenting.