What was the primary reason for the Race Riots of 1919? In what city was rioting the worst?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans:
1) White hostility based on competition for lower-paying jobs and black encroachment into white neighborhoods.
2) The Chicago riot was the worst, lasting thirteen days and leaving 38 dead, 520 wounded, and 1,000 families homeless.
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Answer:
Which country was created from Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I?
a) Czechoslovakia b) Germany c) Turkey d) Greece
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