A particularly brutal lynching in __________ led activist Ida B. Wells to speak out against the lies and racial injustices that drove lynch mobs.
a. Atlanta, Georgia,
b. Birmingham, Alabama,
c. Memphis, Tennessee,
d. Tulsa, Oklahoma,
c. Memphis, Tennessee,
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____________________ was the Buddhist monk who attempted to usurp power from the Fujiwara clan
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One of the most lasting African American institutions and the first they fully controlled was the:
A) school. B) Freedmen's Bureau. C) church. D) state legislatures.
What resulted from the influx of laborers from the depressed countryside and of foreign immigrants?
a. Wages and incentives for factory workers were wiped out. b. Working and living conditions improved for laborers. c. Mill owners locked some workers out of employment. d. More people left the cities to make a living on the farm.
In the Supreme Court cause of Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), the U.S. Supreme Court decided that
a. federal officials had a responsibility to return fugitive slaves but local state officials did not. b. both federal and local state officials had an equal responsibility to return fugitive slaves. c. although the Constitution allowed slaveholders to reclaim fugitive slaves, it did not require local state or federal officials to assist them in the process. d. fugitive slaves could not be reclaimed from states which refused to recognize the legality of slavery.