How does this image of a Texas poll tax receipt exemplify the ineffectiveness of the Fifteenth Amendment when it came to the enfranchisement of African Americans?
A) The amendment allowed states to establish property requirements for suffrage, and at the time
most African Americans did not own land or property.
B) The amendment stated that suffrage could not be denied or abridged because of "race, color,
or previous condition of servitude," so Southerners found other ways to disenfranchise blacks.
C) The amendment used flowery, indirect language that was too vague and therefore very easy to
undermine.
D) The amendment denied suffrage to anyone who was unable to read and write.
B
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Which of the following is a reason for Eisenhower's victory in the 1952 presidential election?
A. Many voters hoped he would end the Korean War. B. African Americans were led to believe he would actively work for enactment of civil rights legislation. C. He publicly denounced Joseph McCarthy. D. He promised to end American support of the French in Indochina.
A supporter of temperance believed
A) that church attendance should be mandatory. B) in the separation of church and state. C) that immigration should not be permitted. D) in abstinence from alcohol. E) that slavery should be abolished.
As a result of revivalism, northern evangelicals were involved with each of the following EXCEPT ________
A) abolitionism B) missionary and benevolent associations C) the temperance movement D) Indian removal E) publication of religious tracts
The Mormon leader who led Mormons in 1847 to the shores of the Great Salt Lake to be free of any government authority to establish settlements was
A) Brigham Young. B) Joseph Smith. C) Hyrum Smith. D) George Romney.