When Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961,
a. there was relief at the end of his "lame duck" second term.
b. Congress was firmly in the hands of the Republicans.
c. he was unhappy with Vice President Nixon's unbending anticommunism.
d. he had succeeded in establishing American domination of the Cold War.
e. he remained an extraordinarily popular figure.
e
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Why did Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" movement gain momentum with black Americans in the 1920s?
A. The influx of southern industrial plants crowded out black farmers who could not get industrial jobs. B. Black Americans had suffered highly disproportionate losses during World War I and patriotic morale therefore declined. C. The southern economy did not improve and the region did not experience the creation of a consumer culture. D. Many blacks moved northward found racial discrimination to be as bad as in the south.
A meta-analysis found gender similarities for some facets of narcissism, but men scored higher on the ______ facet.
A. vulnerable narcissism B. exploitative/entitlement C. grandiosity D. ambivalent
Chief Justice Roger Taney’s decision in the Dred Scott case included all of the following provisions EXCEPT
a. slaves were not citizens of the United States, and could not bring suit in court. b. free blacks were not citizens of the United States, and had no rights which whites must respect. c. the federal government could bar slavery from territories, but not from existing states. d. the Missouri Compromise had been unconstitutional.
Who did most conservative Southern whites and white Northern blue-collar workers support in the 1968 presidential election?
A) Richard Nixon B) George Wallace C) Hubert H. Humphrey D) Robert Kennedy