On May 7, 1963, when thousands of schoolchildren marched in King’s Children’s Crusade, Birmingham police responded with __________
A) a public relations campaign to turn public opinion against the marchers
B) fire hoses and police dogs to disperse them
C) a press conference to announce the desegregation of downtown stores
D) a bombing campaign against black churches
Answer: B
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The phrase "wall of separation between church and state"
A) was explicitly written into the First Amendment of the Constitution to guarantee that governments not interfere with the work of churches and churches not interfere with or gain support from government. B) came from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to members of a local Baptist association in Connecticut expressing the republican belief that politics and religion should remain as separate from each other as possible. C) was one of the rare anti-republican sentiments expressed by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to local Baptist Church association in Connecticut. D) was used by Thomas Jefferson to advocate for the expansion of state support of the Congregational churches in Connecticut, through mandatory taxes, to include all Christian churches and Jewish synagogues.
Which of the following statements best characterizes the totalitarian state in the 1930s?
A. It was democratic and championed individualism and democratic freedoms. B. It was an all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorship that subordinated individual needs, and employed police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control. C. It limited its authoritarian dictates to the political and economic aspects of the state's affairs, in an effort to have freer social and cultural choices serve as means of placating the masses. D. It wanted the masses to keep quiet and not obstruct state policy. E. It depended upon the appeasement policies of the Eastern democracies.
The singer who was known as the “queen of Tejano music” was __________
A. Tish Hinojosa B. Selena Quintanilla Perez C. Gloria Estefan D. Shakira
The Indian coalition that fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn was hoping to
a. avenge the attack on the Sioux at Wounded Knee. b. defend traditional religious practices, like the outlawed Sun Dance. c. drive settlers away from the newly opened Bozeman Trail. d. build a pan-Indian movement across the American and Canadian Plains to repel white settlement. e. defend their territory from white gold-seekers.