The victim of police brutality who inadvertently became a racial spokesperson in 1992 was:
A) Reginald Denny.
B) Rodney King.
C) Johnny Cochrane.
D) Geronimo Pratt.
Answer: B
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An effect of Draco's special authority to codify and publish laws for the first time was the ________
A. granting of rights of habeas corpus B. granting of the right of the accused to face their accuser C. publication of set laws that applied to all of the lower classes D. publication of laws strengthening the hand of the state against powerful nobles E. introduction of laws made by a tyrant
Discuss some of the characteristics of black voluntary societies in the period. How did gender and class shape the types of activities black people were involved in?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York in 1911 was instrumental in obtaining passage of
A) the Seventeenth Amendment. B) corporate income tax laws. C) minimum wage laws for women. D) state workmen's compensation laws.
Why was the 1807 federal slavery law unsatisfying for everyone?
A) On the one hand, slave owners felt it threatened their livelihood, but on the other hand, abolitionists felt it did little to end slavery. B) It did nothing to affect slavery or the slave trade in the U.S. and only frustrated relations with European allies. C) On the one hand it appeased anti-slavery European allies, but on the other hand it frustrated U.S. slave owners. D) It only granted African Americans freedom, not any voting or civil rights, yet it infuriated their slave owners. E) It appeased southern slave owners, but infuriated northern abolitionists.