Working-class whites tended to oppose abolition because they feared __________.
a. being overrun by the black population
b. an increase in the crime rate
c. the outbreak of a civil war
d. increased economic competition from blacks
Answer: d. increased economic competition from blacks
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In the 1630s, the major conflict between the New England colonists and the local Indians was known as the:
A) Powhatan Conflict. B) Jamestown Massacre. C) Pequot War. D) Roanoke War. E) Wampanoag War.
The Supreme Court decision that outlawed Oklahoma’s “grandfather clause” was __________
A) Guinn v. United States (1915) B) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) C) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) D) Smith v. Allwright (1944)
The First Reconstruction Act of 1867 _______
A) recognized southern state governments as legitimate B) confiscated all property of ex-Confederates C) guaranteed freedmen the right to vote in southern elections D) supported the Black Codes E) placed the South under military rule
Whose publications and speeches led him to be called the Poet of War?
A) Leon Trotsky B) Rudyard Kipling C) Felix Dzerzhinsky D) Gavrilo Princip