Which of the following helps explains the rapid growth of discriminatory laws in the late nineteenth- century South?
a. Many northerners had lost interest in guarding the rights of blacks.
b. The black population of the South was growing faster than the white population of the South.
c. Race relations were destabilized by industrialization in the South.
d. Supreme Court rulings favoring minority rights created a white backlash.
a. Many northerners had lost interest in guarding the rights of blacks.
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a. Kautilya. b. Kalidasa. c. Mahavira. d. Kali.
How did expansion affect men like John Jacob Astor?
a. As free African Americans, men like Astor could settle in the West and make a life for themselves. b. As displaced Native Americans, men like Astor could relocate in the newly acquired land of the West or Florida, making a new life for themselves. c. Expansion gave entrepreneurs like Astor the opportunity to create prosperous immigrant neighborhoods like Astoria, New York. d. Expansion gave entrepreneurs like Astor the opportunity to create prosperous companies in the West. e. Expansion gave immigrants like Astor the opportunity to work hard in an industrial mill and one day save enough money to start their own business.
The purpose of Richard M. Nixon's so-called "Checkers speech" was primarily to
A) promote a commercial product. B) announce his campaign for office. C) lampoon one of his opponents. D) share details about his home life. E) defuse a political scandal.
European laws of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries generally forbade women from owning property, handling money, signing contracts, or holding public office. Why was this?
a) Legal codes of the time treated women as perpetual children who had to be cared for by their fathers, husbands, and eventually sons. b) The restrictions on women were not unusual, since the majority of men were forbidden these things as well. Consider This: How did Sofonisba’s father arrange for her to receive training? See 2.6: Narrative: Wondrous Sofonisba. c) The Church condemned women who engaged in such practices. Consider This: How did Sofonisba’s father arrange for her to receive training? See 2.6: Narrative: Wondrous Sofonisba. d) Women were actually able to do all these things as long as specially convened town councils approved it. Consider This: How did Sofonisba’s father arrange for her to receive training? See 2.6: Narrative: Wondrous Sofonisba.