Why did African Americans own slaves?
A) Blacks owned slaves to assist with colonization in Africa.
B) Blacks owned slaves to force Native Americans onto reservations.
C) Blacks owned slaves to impress northern whites.
D) Blacks owned slaves to protect families from sale.
Answer: D
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Which statement best describes Eleanor Roosevelt's philosophy?
a) The market should provide for all industrious people and "trim the fat" from the labor force. b) Faith-based charities should provide for people who had fallen on hard times. c) The government should provide for the poor and the nation should develop a sense of social responsibility. d) Government assistance would inspire laziness and remove all incentives for work in the private sector. e) The government should provide "equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none."
Which of the following made it more difficult for the deadly illness known as AIDS, threatening to take on epidemic proportions in the late 1980s, more difficult to combat?
A. The highest rate of infection was occurring in populations for which mainstream American society had little concern. B. It was thought that latex condoms could stop the virus, but they couldn't. C. The Centers for Disease Control was understaffed and underfunded after congressional budget cuts. D. The virus was easily transmittable through casual contact.
The author of the short novel The Awakening was
A) Jane Addams. B) Kate Chopin. C) Florence Crittenden. D) Frances Willard.
Most new textile workers in the South were
A. young, single, African American males. B. poor and white. C. middle-class whites. D. young women.