The Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott was triggered by
A) the onset of World War II.
B) Martin Luther King, Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail.
C) the murder of Emmett Till.
D) Rosa Parks' refusal to sit at the back of a bus.
D
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The life story of John F. Flintoff demonstrates which of the following?
A. Southerners from the mountains generally held antislavery views. B. Evangelical Christianity caused a significant number of white southerners to question the morality of slavery. C. The availability of land and capital in the 1840s made it easy for most nonslaveowning southern farmers to become slaveowners. D. Yeomen farmers generally aspired to become slaveowners.
Although immigrants from developing nations bring many benefits to a new country, they
a. normally returned home after only a few months. b. vote for conservative candidates in general elections. c. were expelled from most European countries in the late 1990s. d. face anti-immigrant discrimination and resentment. e. None of these
The Scots-Irish in South Carolina were
a. Catholics who moved from England to Scotland and then to North America. b. clannish, violent, heavy-drinking Indian-haters who dominated the back country. c. Quakers who set up Protestant missions to Christianize the Indians. d. the best educated and most dignified of the Anglican immigrants in the Middle Colonies. e. the governing elite.
Restrictions on black civil rights imposed by southern states after Reconstruction from 1876 to 1910 were known as __________
A) Black Codes B) the Code Noir C) the Compromise of 1877 D) Redeemer laws E) Jim Crow laws