In what ways did Reconstruction succeed? In what ways did it fail? What has been its legacy?
What will be an ideal response?
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On the home front in 1946, postwar America was characterized by
a. lengthy retention of wartime price controls. b. a slow demobilization of military forces. c. an epidemic of labor strikes. d. maximum federal action to guarantee full civil rights for blacks. e. severe unemployment of returned GIs.
Before the American Revolution, black Americans
a. had never served in any of the colonial militias. b. were banned from militias in the southern colonies, but invited to serve in all of the New England ones. c. served in the militias of many colonies, North and South. d. served in the militias of the southern colonies, but not in those of New England, which had a negligible African-American population.
Between 1880 and 1900, most immigrants coming to the United States settled in the cities along the east coast because
a. many factory jobs were available in the East b. little farmland remained to be settled in the Midwest c. most immigrants came from the cities of Europe d. city laws afforded special rights and protections for immigrants
Girolamo Savonarola was a unique figure who ruled Florence, claiming __________.
A. the French invasion was a divine punishment B. he was descended from the last Roman emperors C. to be the legitimate pope D. the Holy Roman Emperor was the only legitimate sovereign of the Italian cities