Which of the following statements regarding the freedom rides is true?
A) ?The Kennedy administration sent in federal marshals to protect the freedom riders.
B) ?The freedom riders unexpectedly met more resistance in the North than in the South.
C) ?The rides were planned by the federal government to force a showdown with state governments.
D) ?The rides enlisted blacks and whites to testing a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in schools.
A
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What did the world learn about the Atlantic Passage from memoirs and ship logs?
A. Cargo was shipped in filthy conditions. B. Sailors were treated with respect and good pay. C. The work of sailors was unrelenting and brutally hard. D. The process of moving Africans to the Americas was horrific and inhumane.
Which of the following modern-day practices would the social Darwinists of the nineteenth century be most likely to support?
A. UN peacekeeping troops in war-torn countries B. welfare states C. universal health care D. price wars between competitors
This Lakota Sioux chief led his warriors in against General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
What will be an ideal response?
The first rupture of the European political order established by the Congress of Vienna was
A) the resignation of Metternich in 1848. B) a revolt by the Hungarians in 1848. C) the revolution in France in 1830. D) a military mutiny and provincial uprising in Spain in 1820. E) the result of the abdication of Charles X of Great Britain.