To get Roosevelt to respond to unfair treatment of African Americans, A. Philip Randolph threatened to organize __________
A) all African American workers in one great union
B) a march on Washington to the Lincoln Memorial
C) the Congress of Racial Equality
D) a massive strike by all black workers
Answer: B
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Which of the following explains why the states with the highest percentage of farms and plantations that were 500 acres or more in 1860 were concentrated in the southeastern part of the United States?
a) The economy of the South was centered on the cultivation of labor-intensive crops that required large tracts of land and depended on slave labor. b) Northerners with the capital to expand their operations purchased large tracts of land in the South to build factories that employed yeoman farmers. c) As the cultivation of tobacco became less challenging and more profitable in the Upper South, slaveholders combined their farms and plantations. d) The transition of the white population in the South from yeoman farmers to slaveholders led to a proliferation of large farms and plantations.
Why was Billy Graham often in opposition with Southern business interests and political leaders during the 1950s?
A. because he was opposed to religious desegregation B. because he supported religious desegregation C. because he was opposed to Communism D. because he was tolerant of Communism
In the frontier states of the South, initial attitudes towards interracial marriages were
A) indifferent. B) tolerant. C) hostile. D) like those of the rest of the South.
Perhaps the most radical of the transcendentalists was
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe. b. Henry David Thoreau. c. Walt Whitman. d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.