When faced with the possible elimination of their unions and a reduction in their wages, 10,000 black and white dockworkers held a strike in 1907 in
What will be an ideal response?
New Orleans.
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The Japanese navy approved a preemptive strike against the U.S. navy at Pearl Harbor because it
a. sought control of the oil-rich Dutch East Indies. b. feared America's land-based air power. c. feared American superior willpower. d. had imperialist ambitions in the Americas.
A large-scale influx of foreign capital into Latin America did not occur in the first half of the nineteenth century because
A) severe depressions in Europe restricted export of capital from that area. B) political disorder in Latin America discouraged foreign investment. C) European capitalists preferred to send their capital to Africa and Asia. D) Latin American nationalistic legislation discouraged foreign investment.
The bracero program:
A) sought ways to keep Mexican workers in Mexico. B) began as a cheap source of legal migrant labor. C) saw many Mexicans cross the Rio Grande illegally. D) prompted civil rights activists to push for expanding legal immigration.
The list of Nixon illegal administration activities uncovered in the Watergate scandal included all of the following except
a. breaking into the Democratic party headquarters in order to bug them. b. paying Supreme Court justices to write favorable opinions. c. using the Internal Revenue Service to harass its enemies. d. forging documents to discredit Democrats. e. using the FBI and CIA to cover up previous crimes.