Before the middle of the fifteenth century, sub-Saharan Africa had remained remote and mysterious to Europeans because
a. there was little of value for them there.
b. sea travel down the African coast had been virtually impossible.
c. Islamic societies prevented Europe from making inroads there.
d. they did not know that it existed.
e. they feared the people who lived there.
b
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A) Du Bois advocated a more radical Pan-African agenda than Garvey. B) Du Bois believed that Garvey was in the pay of the Department of Justice. C) Garvey envisioned separate black nations in many locales across the world. D) Garvey rejected Pan-Africanism as a threat to his integrationist stance.
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Which of the following undermined Ford’s reelection campaign in 1976?
A) his marital infidelities B) his financial dealings C) the weak economy D) the war in Vietnam
Which of the following statements about American workers is NOT true?
A. Although the Carnegie "rags to riches" experience hardly matched the experience of most workers, the opportunity to improve economically was enjoyed most by white males. B. Samuel Gompers of the AFL succeeded as a union leader because he advocated radical changes in the structure of American capitalism, rather than merely seeking better wages and working conditions. C. To achieve high productivity, managers using the Taylorism model tended to treat workers as impersonal cogs in the industrial machinery. D. During the later nineteenth century, labor unions provoked alarm among social and political leaders because of a wave of strikes.