Which governmental action prevented African Americans from achieving equality during Reconstruction?
a. approval of the 14th Amendment
b. passage of Jim Crow Laws
c. issuing the Emancipation Proclamation
d. readmitting the Southern states to the Union
Answer: b. passage of Jim Crow Laws
You might also like to view...
What group was included in Richard Nixon's "quiet forgotten majority"?
A. young activists B. middle-class workers C. Southern demonstrators D. Vietnam War "hawks"
Ladies' Home Journal is described by the authors as emerging from
A) more free time for homemakers. B) higher literacy rates among women. C) advertising aimed at women. D) a new respect for the women's sphere.
Despite the Treaty of Paris, Britain continued to occupy forts in
A) the South. B) the Old Northwest. C) the West. D) the mid-Atlantic region. E) New England.
Mao Zedong's successor in Communist China, Deng Xiaoping, began a series of reforms by urging his countrymen
a. to work for more open and democratic government. b. to get rich. c. to continue the policies of the Cultural Revolution. d. to collectivize agriculture.