Between 1791 and 1804 this French colony achieved independence:
A. Cuba
B. Haiti
C. Guiana
D. the Dominican Republic
E. French Indochina
B
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In the spring of 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in __________.
A. Detroit, Michigan B. the Watts section of Los Angeles, California C. Washington, D.C. D. Memphis, Tennessee
What explains the election of African Americans to a number of local and state positions by the mid-1960s?
a. African Americans were concentrated in the urban core ghettos where their voting power in these districts was not diluted by a large white population. b. New laws passed in California and by the federal government had eliminated policies that discouraged blacks from voting. c. More African Americans were finishing high school and going to college. This resulted in an increase in the number of blacks running for public office. d. Many whites were beginning to see blacks as their equals, so they were more willing to vote for black candidates than they had been in the past.
While racist sentiment developed quickly, the primary motive for the slave trade was __________
A) religious conversion B) profit C) military service D) displays of power by European rulers
"An Act of Congress which deprives a person…of his liberty or property merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular Territory…could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law"
This statement is from the A) Compromise of 1850. B) Ableman v. Booth decision. C) Kansas-Nebraska Act. D) Dred Scott decision.