What role did civil rights for African Americans play in the election of 1948?
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The ideal answer should include:
1. Truman campaigned for reelection in 1948 on a platform of support for civil rights that was unprecedented in the White House.
2. In the summer of 1948 he ordered the desegregation of the armed forces and the federal civil service.
3. Alienated by the civil rights plank, white Southerners walked out of the Democratic convention and ran South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond as an independent candidate.
4. African American voters in Chicago, Cleveland, and other northern cities played a key role in swing states.
5. African American votes proved the difference in the election.
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Robert Owen was motivated by all of the following except
A) poverty, ignorance, and immorality of his workers. B) profit margins of the factories. C) poor governmental reforms that had been passed. D) the failings of laissez-faire economic policies. E) utopian society.
An examination of American voters in the late nineteenth century reveals
A. there was greater voter interest in local elections than in national elections. B. voters did not strongly identify with either the Republican or Democratic Party. C. southern white males voted Republican as a matter of unquestioned faith. D. poor whites in the south made up the largest demographic of American voters. E. eligible voter turnout for presidential elections was quite high.
How did Timur justify his conquests?
A) God had granted him universal rule. B) As heir of the Mongols, he was merely preserving their empire. C) He considered himself the heir of the Roman Caesars. D) He attacked only those disloyal to Islam.