What was the purpose of Georgia’s 1877 poll tax?

a. to promote interstate commerce
b. to allow the state government to lower income taxes
c. to disfranchise blacks
d. to help support poor whites


c. to disfranchise blacks

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This illustration from Life magazine characterizes the threat from the Soviet Union as

A) easily penetrable. B) tenuous. C) purely fantastic. D) inescapable. E) more symbolic than real.

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Which of the following correctly summarizes the Carter administration's policy toward the area of the world with which it is paired?

A) Panama: treaties transferring full control over the canal to Panama by 2000. B) Soviet Union: growing détente and continued expansion of economic and cultural relations C) China: fortification of Taiwan with American Cruise Missiles. D) Europe: reduction of stores of chemical weapons E) Middle East: use of American troops to stop the Egyptian invasion of Israel

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Which two southern states did not allow black men to vote in 1868?

A) South Carolina and North Carolina B) Texas and Arkansas C) South Carolina and Georgia D) Mississippi and Virginia

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Friedrich Nietzsche questioned whether __________.

A. morality was personally valuable B. altruism was truly possible C. people really exist as individuals D. a state was necessary to preserve liberty

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