The African American civil rights leader who waged an important insurgent campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 was:

A) Shirley Chisholm.
B) Jesse Jackson.
C) Harold Washington.
D) Louis Farrakhan.


Answer: B

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In the 1730s and 1740s, __________ abandoned its tradition of fair dealing and perpetrated a series of fraudulent seizures of western lands from the Delaware Indians

A) Pennsylvania B) Massachusetts C) Virginia D) Maryland

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Evidence that Chileans were growing increasingly dissatisfied with neoliberalism included

A) the ratification of a 1980 Constitution that institutionalized Pinochet's power. B) declining political participation and rising support for punishing human rights violations. C) the election of Augusto Pinochet to the Chilean Senate. D) the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of Pinochet and his associates.

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In 1844, Samuel Morse showed off his invention by telegraphing news of Zachary Taylor's nomination for the presidency over the wires from Baltimore to Washington.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Between the third and ninth centuries, the ________ civilization founded some 50 urban centers scattered throughout the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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