During the 1970s, __________
A) the relative economic status of most black workers improved
B) the gap between poor black people and poor white people shrank
C) the black middle class grew
D) the urban black population shrank
Answer: C
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In October of 1867, five Native American tribes, including the Comanche met with a U.S. delegation at Medicine Lodge Creek in Texas. What were the four other tribes and who led the U.S. delegation?
A) Kiowa, Naishan, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. William Tecumseh Sherman led the delegation. B) Cheyenne, Sioux, Kiowa, and Naishan. General George Custer led the delegation. C) Navaho, Kiowa, Naishan and Cheyenne. General Ulysses S. Grant led the delegation. D) Apache, Kiowa, Naishan and Sioux. William Tecumseh Sherman led the delegation.
During the 1920s, American foreign policy toward Europe was characterized by
A) a willingness to forgive the World War I debts owed to the U.S. government by former allies. B) a desire to lead the League of Nations. C) by independent internationalism with an occasional willingness to enter into arms control treaties. D) a commitment to the World Court. E) complete isolation from other countries.
Which of the following best summarizes Aristotle's fears the deterioration of forms of government?
a. monarchy to anarchy, aristocracy to tyranny, and constitutional government to oligarchy. b. monarchy to oligarchy, aristocracy to anarchy, and constitutional government to tyranny. c. monarchy to tyranny, aristocracy to oligarchy, and constitutional government to anarchy. d. aristocracy to democracy, oligarchy to anarchy, and constitutional government to tyranny. e. tyranny to oligarchy to monarchy.
Which of the following statements about voting in the years following Reconstruction is LEAST accurate?
a. White Democrats sometimes courted black voters and even nominated black candidates. b. White Democrats sometimes stuffed ballot boxes in order to defeat Republican majorities. c. Democratic state governments enacted laws which explicitly denied black men their right to vote on the basis of their race. d. Democratic state governments enacted laws which allowed the indirect disenfranchisement of black men without technically violating the Fifteenth Amendment.