How does the Civil Rights Movement challenge common notions about the postwar era?
A) The angry reactions of segregationists belies the common idea that old racist ideas had been forgotten.
B) The protests of those involved in the movement belie the common idea that racial harmony had been achieved.
C) The discord stirred up by the movement belies the common idea that the era was one of complacency.
D) The hard-won achievements of the movement belies the common idea that people were resisting progress of any kind during the postwar era.
E) The nonviolent methods of the protesters belies the common idea that people supported violence during the postwar era.
C
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A) only their men could obtain trade goods. B) they shunned trade goods, causing resentment. C) it destroyed women's community networks. D) the British refused to acknowledge matrilineal customs.
As a consequence of its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, France had to
A) pay an indemnity to Prussia of five billion francs. B) abandon Nice and Marseilles. C) agree to allow Prussia to control Luxembourg. D) try Napoleon III for war crimes before a Prussian tribunal. E) All of these are correct.