What was the Lost Cause? What purposes did it serve in the post-Reconstruction South?
What will be an ideal response?
The Lost Cause was the independence of the South, which didn't happen because the South lost the Civil War. It gave Southerners a romantic ideal of life before the War and justification for their contemporary actions.
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How did Stokely Carmichael change SNCC around 1965?
A) He expelled all white members. B) He began to admit whites. C) He forced all members to renounce nonviolence and Christianity. D) He set age limits on group members to allow only college-age students to be members.
Before the1930s, the United States __________
A) had no appreciable middle class B) had the lowest average unemployment rate in the world C) provided no welfare state benefits D) had never experienced a significant economic downturn
Anti-immigration groups sought all of the following except
a. new legislative restrictions. b. tighter border control. c. harsh penalties for companies that employed undocumented workers. d. turning people away who try to enter the U.S. illegally. e. a ban on immigration from Mexico, the biggest source of illegal immigrants.
Which of the following statements best describes the typical pattern of immigrant life?
A. Stripped of their religious and linguistic identity, immigrants dispersed into the general population mix of the city, rapidly assimilating into their adopted homeland. B. Clustered into ever-changing neighborhoods in the cities, with a church or synagogue at the center, ethnic communities both preserved Old World flavor and eased the transition to an Americanized culture. C. Hostile to Anglo-Saxon ways, immigrants crowded together in "foreign quarters," embracing each other's cultural contributions while resisting assimilation. D. Shaped by their rural peasant backgrounds, European immigrant men married quickly and bought a farm as soon as they could.