What was President Eisenhower's role in the efforts in 1957 to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
a. When segregationist mobs attacked black children and began to riot, he sent in federal troops to keep order.
b. He went on national television and told the American people that segregation was wrong.
c. He ordered his attorney general to file a friend of the court brief that supported the school board's efforts to maintain segregation.
d. He congratulated the governor for being willing to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to keep out black children.
A
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A) Nashoba. B) Silver Lake. C) Carthagena. D) Brooklyn.
The term "stranger effect" refers to
a. the revulsion that peoples often have to foreigners. b. the bigotry shown by European towards native peoples. c. the power that is deferred to foreigners on account of exotic or strange qualities. d. a belief that strangers were sent by the gods.
Convinced that Lincoln would destroy their “peculiar institution,” South Carolina legislators __________
A) asked to negotiate directly with the Republican candidate B) debated emancipating slaves in their state C) responded by taking measures to secede D) offered free blacks the right to vote
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What will be an ideal response?