What role did Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren play in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?
A) He was extremely reluctant to overturn Plessey v. Ferguson.
B) He knew he only needed to win limited political support.
C) He worked hard to ensure that the Court reached a unanimous decision.
D) He and President Eisenhower had a bad relationship.
C
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Why did the Allied attack on Axis-held territory begin in North Africa?
A. North Africa served as the stronghold of the Italian army. B. The German army was too strong to be confronted with a frontal assault. C. The Americans wished to weaken the Soviet Union through a prolonged German assault. D. The American Army was too heavily involved in the Pacific to participate in a larger assault.
By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to
a. prohibit excessive profits from being made off of arms sales to foreign countries. b. limit a president to two terms. c. remove the power to declare from the Congress and grant it to the president. d. require the president to gain Congressional approval before sending U.S. troops overseas. e. forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum.
Muhammad's earliest followers came from
a. central Asia. b. Spain and Italy. c. distant lands. d. his immediate family. e. Jewish neighbors.
Who were known as the "Wobblies"?
A. New soldiers uneasy on their feet B. Russian immigrants C. Radical labor activists D. FBI informants during the Red Scare