When Fraser Baker, the black postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina, was murdered by a white mob, Ida Wells Barnett called on the White House to __________
A) appoint another black person to the office
B) send federal troops to the state to protect black lives and property
C) compensate black families who lost loved ones in the white supremacist violence
D) arrest the governor of the state for inciting the mob
Answer: C
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The life story of John F. Flintoff demonstrates which of the following?
A. Southerners from the mountains generally held antislavery views. B. Evangelical Christianity caused a significant number of white southerners to question the morality of slavery. C. The availability of land and capital in the 1840s made it easy for most nonslaveowning southern farmers to become slaveowners. D. Yeomen farmers generally aspired to become slaveowners.
Massachusetts Bay Puritans
A) were Calvinists. B) were separatists. C) wrote the Mayflower Compact. D) believed hard work assured one of receiving God's saving grace.
The 1857 Lecompton (Kansas) constitution was
A. rejected, then approved by Kansas voters. B. written by Stephen Douglas. C. twice rejected by a majority of Kansas voters. D. antislavery. E. approved and later reaffirmed by Kansas voters.
Culture shock refers to:
A) major changes originating within one's home culture B) the initial mental and physical stress experienced, to varying degrees, when an individual enters a new culture C) major changes originating outside one's home culture D) the perception that one's home culture is overwhelmed by external cultural forces