How did the Great Depression affect minorities?
What will be an ideal response?
In a word, badly. The text provides considerable evidence of whites forcing blacks, Mexicans, and Asians out of their jobs. Students should be struck by the comment of a California deputy sheriff who compared Mexican workers to pigs. The rise in racial violence was illustrated by the rise in the lynching rate and in efforts at quasi-legal lynchings like the case of the Scottsboro Nine.
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One of the qualities of India that made the British domination in India possible was
A) its diversity. B) the vastness of its economy. C) the size of its population. D) its climate. E) all of the above.
As one of Zheng He's men, Fei Xin describes his and other informants' observations in
a. Sumatra. b. Sri Lanka. c. Africa. d. India. e. Persia.
After unification, the people of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
a. suffered unemployment and insecurity. b. saw their countries achieve international recognition as manufacturing and technology leaders. c. elected to remain a communist state in the face of an unknown future. d. installed new capitalistic and political reforms based on the wealth of their oil and gas reserves. e. were still under the control of communist-leaning political leaders.
Explain the ideology of "manifest destiny," the sentiments that supported it, and the reaction of politicians and the public to it
What will be an ideal response?