The phrase "black belt" refers to this in the South
A) the areas of greatest slave population
B) the center of large plantations
C) law codes that restricted free blacks
D) the fertile soil of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi
Answer: D
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A) Muhammad Ali B) Muhammad Ahmed C) Jamal al-Din al-Afghani D) Murad
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a. increasingly poor and less popular b. more popular than ever because of their humility c. less powerful as they shared power with a new priestly class d. increasingly wealthy and yet resented e. extinct as the religion died out
Which of the following generated the political crisis of the 1890s?
A) anger about increased immigration B) discontent among women C) anger about the suppression of wages D) discontent among farmers
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a. the French established an impregnable fortress at Zanzibar. b. Belgian troops were driven out of the Cape area after they had tried to conquer the Boers. c. the racially tolerant Boers were able to organize a biracial, intertribal force which successfully resisted the British army for three years. d. the British were more sympathetic to the rights of the local population than were the Boers. e. the Boer commander, General Shaka, proved to be an effective political and military leader.