Which of the following is considered one of the roots of the Los Angeles riots of 1992?
a. The failure of Congress to renew the Voting Rights Act
b. The all-white composition of the Los Angeles City Council
c. The dramatic increase in hate crimes against ethnic minorities in Los Angeles
d. Strained relations between African Americans and Korean immigrants
d
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Regarding black military service during the War of 1812, what had white Americans practically forgotten?
A) Haiti's revolution B) blacks' heroism and service during the American Revolution C) the violence of Gabriel's conspiracy and the Louisiana Revolution D) the origins and development of slavery and blacks' desire for freedom
The Solidarity movement in Poland
A) was temporarily crushed by Jànos Kàdàr in 1981. B) failed to gain massive support due to stiff opposition from the conservative Catholic church. C) was formed by Wladyslaw Gomulka in 1956. D) lacked cohesion and quickly disintegrated and disappeared in 1980. E) was outlawed in 1981 and its leaders arrested.
The term New South refers to
a. A South committed to civil rights and racial equality. b. The southwestern states of New Mexico and Arizona. c. a post-reconstruction South committed to industrialization and modernization. d. a revival of the Confederacy.
What was an element of the United States economic diplomacy in the 1920s?
A. promoting arms sales abroad to bankrupt rival powers B. reducing the tariff to allow other nations to sell their goods in the United States C. canceling World War I debts owed by European nations to the United States in order to make it feasible to reduce German reparations D. reducing German reparation payments to the victorious Allies in return for helping stabilize the German economy