In light of the decisive Vietminh victory at Dien Bien Phu the day before it started, the Geneva Conference was
A. a decisive triumph for the Vietminh.
B. a serious diplomatic defeat for the United States.
C. a great victory for France in its quest to restore its colonial empire.
D. a qualified success for the U.S.
Answer: D
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Formal education for average children in the southern colonies was
A) almost nonexistent in their rural society. B) highly developed, with public funding of primary, secondary, and college levels. C) patterned after the village system used in New England. D) not valued, even by the wealthy planter elite.
Which of the following was not true about religious practice in Southeast Asia?
a. Buddhism and Hinduism were never in competition in the region. b. Rulers used either Hinduism or Buddhism to gain a political advantage. c. Hinduism served to fortify the positions of the upper class. d. Theravada Buddhism became a dominant religious force in much of the region. e. Daoism did not become a major movement in Java or Sumatra.
In the 1860s, Black Codes were
A. enacted by the Freedmen's Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights. B. designed to give whites control over freedmen. C. holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments. D. passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states. E. vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
The ethnic revival of the 1970s involved which of the following?
A. whites B. Latinos C. blacks D. All these answers are correct.