What is the claim to fame of Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce?
a. They were the only black men to serve as state governors in the nineteenth century.
b. They were the only black men to serve in the U.S. Senate until the second half of the twentieth century.
c. They were the first black men to serve in a presidential cabinet, under Grant and Hayes respectively.
d. They cast the deciding votes which resulted in President Johnson’s impeachment.
b. They were the only black men to serve in the U.S. Senate until the second half of the twentieth century.
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After 750, the Abbasid caliphate had its capital in
a. Damascus. b. Antioch. c. Baghdad. d. Cordoba. e. Toledo.
The growing power of which country led Britain to abandon its policy of "splendid isolation"?
A) Austria-Hungary B) Russia C) Germany D) United States
Who established a sultanate on the island of Zanzibar, after supplanting the Portuguese?
a. Ethiopians b. the Shona c. Omani Arabs d. the Ottomans e. the Spanish