The white citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, responded to the bus boycott with __________
A) violent attacks and police force
B) a willingness to compromise
C) minimal interest
D) a boycott of black-owned businesses
Answer: A
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a. left the power to protect the equal rights of citizens solely to the states. b. did not guarantee that all southern public facilities would be integrated. c. protected African Americans in the full exercise of their civil rights. d. guaranteed the vote to all property-holding African Americans.
The _____ allowed the federal government to negotiate with Indian tribes to trade their land east of the Mississippi River for land west of the river
A) Hartford Convention of 1814 B) Louisiana Purchase of 1803 C) Treaty of Ghent of 1814 D) Land Act of 1820 E) Indian Removal Act of 1830