The postwar rumor among former slaves that they were to receive "forty acres and a mule" from the government was based on provisions of

A) the Thirteenth Amendment. B) the surrender terms at Appomattox.
C) Special Field Order 15. D) the Emancipation Proclamation.


C

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a)  the equality of believers in the eyes of God b)  the impossibility of finding eternal salvation c)  the supremacy of the authority of the pope d)  the merging of church and state institutions

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Under Justinian, what was the relationship between the eastern and western Roman empires?

A) Reunification was conceivable but unlikely. B) Most of the ties between the two empires were still intact. C) The two halves were more alike than different. D) Justinian did not try to join the two under his rule.

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A) ?refers to the process of converting a wartime economy to a peacetime economy. B) ?refers to the process of eastern European countries coming under Communist rule. C) ?refers to the process of a veteran becoming a private sector employee. D) ?refers to the process of a Communist nations becoming democratic. E) ?None of these are correct.

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Booker T. Washington's speech, now referred to as the Atlanta Compromise, asserted that:

A) African Americans ought to fight for their full political rights. B) economic progress could take place without racial integration. C) white Americans owed African Americans not just an apology, but massive reparations. D) African Americans ought to immigrate to Africa. E) the only answer to racial oppression was a vote for liberal Democrats.

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