Which of the following statements about the Scottsboro case is LEAST accurate?
a. White Alabamans prided themselves on the initial verdict because, even though the black defendants were sentenced to death on flimsy evidence, they nonetheless were not lynched.
b. Despite initially receiving death sentences, all of the convicted defendants were eventually released.
c. The case brought national and international attention to the South’s often barbaric justice system, and the worst aspects of the Jim Crow system.
d. The notoriety of the case led to the substantial erosion of legal protections for African Americans, as white southerners dug in their heels against calls for reform.
d. The notoriety of the case led to the substantial erosion of legal protections for African Americans, as white southerners dug in their heels against calls for reform.
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A) clergy B) apostles C) humanists D) emperor
The artistic and aesthetic tastes of the court and the samurai were:
a. Too costly to have much influence on non-elites. b. Too foreign and strange to the vast majority of the culturally sensitive middle classes. c. Widely available to anyone who had the money and interest to afford them. d. Widely rejected because of their overt militarism.
The most important political figure to associate the West with democracy was __________
A) David Crockett B) Andrew Jackson C) John Quincy Adams D) George Caleb Bingham
To Herbert Hoover, "associationalism" meant
A. states and the federal government working together to restrain business. B. the creation of national organizations of businessmen in particular industries. C. businesses being run by a governing board of management and labor representatives. D. the formation of federal boards to oversee various aspects of industry. E. Congress and the president working together on economic legislation.