Which of the following was an explanation offered for the destructive race riots that swept American cities between 1964 and 1968?
A) they were revolutionary violence to overthrow a racist, reactionary society.
B) they were evidence of a communist plot to subvert the United States.
C) they were senseless outbursts by troublemakers.
D) they were the product of white racism, poverty, slum housing, poor education, and police brutality.
E) all of these choices
E
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Why were middle- and upper-class city dwellers drawn to the Masonic order in the early nineteenth century?
A. They found its informality and absence of ritual attractive. B. The order offered harmony and shared values. C. They enjoyed the vaudeville-like entertainment offered in the lodges. D. The order emphasized equality among all people.
Why did reformers turn their attention to prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages in the nineteenth century?
a. They believed that high tariffs on alcohol were leading more people into poverty. b. They thought that large producers of alcoholic beverages were driving smaller companies out of business. c. They did not want Americans to import alcoholic beverages from other countries. d. They believed that drunkenness brought many social evils into society. e. They were worried that people were buying harmful liquor because alcoholic beverages were not regulated.
_____ resembles the sort of market gardening that many subsistence and community gardeners continued to pursue in the twentieth century.
A. Jungle clearing B. Horticulture C. Desertification D. Salinization
The Quebec Act
a. outlawed Catholicism in British Quebec. b. provoked outrage among American colonists because it sustained unrepresentative colonial assemblies and denial of jury trials in Quebec, setting a dangerous undemocratic precedent in America. c. restricted Quebec's boundaries to the area north of the Great Lakes. d. was generally ignored by the thirteen seaboard colonies because it had little effect on their relations with Britain. e. granted Quebec a representative assembly and trial by jury.