Explain the rise of Black Power in the 1960s and discuss its organized manifestations
What will be an ideal response?
Students will point to young blacks' frustration with the pace of integration coupled with rising unemployment and a lack of opportunities for the emergence of a more militant current within the civil rights movement. Good students will identify Stokely Carmichael and the sit-in movement, the Watts riots, the growth of the Black Muslims under Malcolm X, and the armed presence of the Black Panther Party in most major American cities as expressions of Black Power. In effect, Black Power represented an eclectic response to the perceived inability of more legitimate types of protest to solve the mounting problems facing black youth during the 1960s.
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How was the Christianity of the Great Awakening similar to native African practices?
A) The Protestant ministers' preaching style was similar to African "spirit possession." B) The Christian concept of hell was similar to that of African beliefs. C) Both religions focused on Christ as a central figure of worship. D) Both religions utilized a multiple-God or spirit system of worship.
Why was Angel Island a place of sorrow for some Japanese and Chinese immigrants?
A) Asian immigrants met the spouses there that matchmakers had found for them and were often disappointed. B) Asian immigrants were often separated from their families there before undertaking the long journey across the sea. C) Asian immigrants were detained there and often interrogated while American authorities attempted to verify their identities. D) Asian immigrants needed to pass a grueling physical in order to gain entry to the United States. E) Asian immigrants were not allowed to see the loved ones with whom they traveled once they reached the island.
Judith and Deborah are remembered as
a. mothers of the ancient patriarchs. b. women who found the baby Moses cast adrift in the Nile. c. the two most important of Solomon's seven hundred wives. d. prophetesses and wise women consulted by their community's leaders. e. wives of foreign rulers who urged their husbands to let the Hebrews return to their own land.
What was the heresy of Arianism?
a. It questioned the divinity of Jesus. b. It denied the existence of God the Father. c. It denied the existence of the Holy Spirit. d. It reverted to Roman polytheistic religious beliefs. e. It doubted the existence of the Holy Spirit.