The massive nineteenth-century influx of Irish immigrants into the United States was accompanied by
a. the passage of restrictive immigration laws.
b. legislation lengthening residency requirements for citizenship.
c. the growth of anti-Catholic sentiment.
d. a nationwide typhoid fever epidemic.
c
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Which practice provides some support for the idea that planters were benevolent parents to their slaves?
A) The masters of large plantations had close relationships with most of their slaves. B) Planters generally treated their slaves like their own children. C) Slaves in the American South were treated better relative to slaves in Brazil and the West Indies. D) Planters, as Christians, acknowledged the validity of slave marriages. E) Planters made sure that slaves were given a rudimentary education.
During the Red Scare, the Supreme Court
a. vigorously defended the First Amendment rights of accused Communists. b. was never called upon to deal with the difficult constitutional issues involved in prosecuting alleged Communists. c. upheld a law that made it a crime to be a member of the Communist Party. d. ordered Communists to register with the attorney general.
The New York colony
A. had its founding proprietors from the Carolina colony. B. banned slavery from its inception. C. made a commitment to representative assemblies. D. emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch. E. saw its population grow slowly for its first fifty years.
In 1957, the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, required
A. the arrest of hundreds of whites protesting at the school. B. the replacement of many of the school's teachers. C. President Dwight Eisenhower to remove the governor of Arkansas from office. D. the presence of federal troops to enforce court orders. E. the Supreme Court to issue another decision, Brown II.