Why did the Newark, New Jersey, riot take place in 1967?
A) Newark had the most highly educated black population in the nation.
B) Newark had the highest level of employed mothers with teenaged children.
C) The city had the highest unemployment rate for black men in the nation.
D) Newark was one of the only segregated cities in the North.
Answer: C
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a. its members insisted on rigid adherence to the gold standard. b. he believed that stabilizing national currencies might hurt America's recovery from depression. c. he saw economic agreements as devices to get the United States into the League of Nations. d. the Conference refused to deal with the issue of lowering German war reparations. e. it was dominated by British and Swiss bankers.
Warfare resumed in Vietnam in 1959 because
a. of the Afghan invasion of Kazakhstan. b. Ho Chi Minh rejected the Geneva Accords. c. the United States, fearful of a Communist victory in the elections agreed to at Geneva, had ignored the Geneva Accords and aided the South Vietnamese government. d. Ngo Dinh Diem began a Communist takeover of South Vietnam. e. of the Chinese Communist invasion of nearby Cambodia.
In the 1840s, John Deere introduced significant improvements to the
A. cotton gin. B. reaper. C. plow. D. thresher. E. tractor.
Which of the following is NOT true of the many Turkic states that controlled Southwest Asia after the collapse of the Seljuk regime?
A. Trade and economic growth flourished in all of the Turkic states. B. They all used the local ulama to regulate matters of religion and public behavior. C. They all continued to use mounted slave soldiers. D. They all expelled Christians from their lands.