The migration of which group in the second half of the nineteenth century suggests that the settlement of the West was more than a simple “westward” movement?
a) Mexicans moving north
b) Exodusters moving to Texas
c) Mormons moving to the South
d) Asians moving to Indian reservations
a) Mexicans moving north
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After 1434, the following discovery accelerated European contacts with the African west coast:
a. The adverse currents and prevailing winds along the west coast of Africa that impeded the return journey were overcome by sailing across the Atlantic to the Americas, thence to Europe in what is now known as the triangle trade. b. The adverse currents and prevailing winds along the west coast of Africa that impeded the return journey were overcome by sailing toward the Atlantic islands such as the Canaries, Madeira, and Azores. c. The new merchant ships were equipped for both rowing and sailing, using slaves being transported for sale as rowers, keeping them fit as well as expediting the journey. d. The Portuguese learned new navigation techniques that allowed them to round the southern tip of Africa and sail across the Indian Ocean.
Roosevelt faced the issue of race and discrimination against African Americans in America by
a. avoiding it as much as possible. b. not interfering with southern segregationist Democrats. c. allowing his wife to keep channels open to African-American leaders. d. largely ignoring the issue. e. all of these choices.
Osiris judged whether or not souls were worthy of immortality
A. by examining their holiness at the moment of their death. B. through their completion of a journey full of tests. C. by weighing their hearts against a feather symbolizing justice. D. through the individual's level of sincere faith in Osiris as a redeemer. E. through their adherence to the code of Hammurabi.
Martin Luther King Jr. rose to leadership in the civil rights movement during the 1950s. His strategies, different from those of the recent past, would become the primary techniques of the civil rights movement into the 1960s. What is the most accurate summary of this transition in the movement?
A. King's rhetorical skills on TV, rather than organized action, caught the nation's attention. B. Direct and often violent confrontation replaced nonviolent passive resistance. C. King proposed nonviolent confrontation instead of solely relying on the NAACP's strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts. D. King appealed directly to President Eisenhower to lend his support to efforts to speed up desegregation.