In the South, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the 1870s and 1880s led directly to the:
A. racial integration of public schools.
B. decline of the Democratic party.
C. organization of the Ku Klux Klan.
D. segregation of public facilities.
Ans: D. segregation of public facilities.
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A) domestic servant in a plantation "Big House." B) free black publisher. C) field slave. D) literate, free black artisan.
The destruction of Pylos is significant because
A) 1200 Linear B clay tablets were preserved by the fire. B) it cleared the way for Knossos to become the dominant power in Greece. C) slaves freed from Pylos led Greece into a golden age. D) several intact royal tombs have been found there. E) it definitively ended the Minoan period in Greece.
In spite of opposition to new ideas, the church did embrace some findings, including:
a. Copernicus' ideas of retrograde planetary motion. b. Robert Boyle's establishment of the Royal Society to study the natural world. c. the Gregorian calendar based on the new astronomy, as issued by the pope. d. Galileo's explanation of the sun in the Letter to the Duchess Christina e. Newton's ideas of gravity and thermodynamics
Which segment of the population was mostly left out of the rising wealth that characterized the 1950s?
A. suburbanites B. white collar workers C. urban minorities D. government workers