In 1955, Emmitt Till was murdered in Mississippi because he:
A) applied for admission to the University of Mississippi.
B) violated the code of black submission by speaking informally to a white women.
C) tried to register to vote.
D) led a public celebration of the Brown decision.
Answer: B
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a. barbarity of the Native American peoples. b. wicked nature and savagery of Native Americans that gave the Spanish the right to enslave them. c. misplaced piety of the Native Americans who practiced it. d. lengths that some would go to accuse Native Americans of things that they never did.
When did the chain of events that culminated in the establishment of an independent United States begin? In 1763? In 1776? In 1783? At another date? Present evidence to support your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
Leopold I's policy of eastward expansion was challenged by
a. the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. b. a coalition of western European powers. c. an energized Sweden. d. the collapse of the Romanov dynasty. e. the revival of Ottoman power.
All of the following are true of nineteenth-century miners except
a. they labored under the hazards of cave-ins. b. sometimes miners faced explosions and deadly gas fumes. c. life under the mines was dark, cold, wet, and tenuous. d. miners toiled their lives away in "the pits." e. mine owners improved working conditions.