The sixteen-year-old student who led the school strike in Farmville, Virginia in 1951 was:

A) Barbara Johns.
B) Spottswood Robinson.
C) Vernon Johns.
D) Ella Baker.


Answer: A

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Which of the following describes the Japanese government's policy regarding forests in the late seventeenth century?

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What will be an ideal response?

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All of the following were TRUE of the Anasazi people EXCEPT

A) they began building communities in New Mexico and Arizona perhaps 700 years before the arrival of Columbus. B) they cultivated crops such as corn, beans, squash, and chilies to feed a settled, urbanized community. C) they developed Chaco Canyon, a large city in northwest New Mexico as the hub of a widespread trade and ceremonial network. D) they managed to avoid the slow decline that plagued other early American peoples such as the Hohokam because of their adaptability to significant droughts.

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