To protect their interests, in the 1880s Mexican-Americans in Arizona and New Mexico
A) formed a vigilante group called Las Gorras Blancas (the White Caps).
B) lobbied the government for more soldiers.
C) built forts that protected their land.
D) hired mercenaries to patrol their land and expel any trespassers.
E) worked to convince the Mexican government to re-annex the American southwest.
A
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a. true b. false
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a. Indian peoples stopped hunting mammals. b. Indian peoples gained greater control over their food supply. c. Epidemic diseases swept across the Americas. d. Warfare became far less common in the Americas.
Several significant abolitionists including John Brown __________ to more actively take part in work to free slaves or abolish slavery
A) joined radical religious movements B) moved to border regions or contested territories such as Kansas C) blended in among the southern elite D) offered themselves as workers on southern plantations themselves
All of the following helped to foster the German people's acceptance of Nazism EXCEPT for
A) the growing threat of the USSR. B) widespread economic hardship. C) the rise of anti-Semitism. D) lingering resentments against the Versailles Treaty. E) the belief in Germans' racial superiority.