W. E. B. Du Bois’s article “Close Ranks” divided the black community because it
a. argued that only an all-black movement could bring about the uplift of the black community.
b. argued that blacks had a patriotic duty to lay aside race struggle during times of war.
c. argued that blacks would only advance in America if they joined white workers in the Socialist Party.
d. argued that black and white Americans had to join together to preserve market capitalism from the threat of communism.
b. argued that blacks had a patriotic duty to lay aside race struggle during times of war.
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a. Potato rot b. Religious warfare between Protestants and Catholics c. The failed war for Irish independence d. Drought compounded by a typhoid epidemic e. Wheat blight
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a. stood a better chance of making their escape permanent if they fled by sea. b. were likely to be captured and punished. c. could not trust other slaves to hide and feed them. d. had no help from runaway slaves. e. all of these choices.
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a) surrendered immediately. b) only surrendered after a second bomb was dropped. c) only surrendered after a bomb was dropped on Tokyo, their capital. d) only surrendered after American forces landed and fought their way into Tokyo. e) never officially surrendered, they simply stopped fighting.