In 1883, the Supreme Court set back the cause of blacks' civil rights by __________
A) declaring the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
B) offering a narrow interpretation of the Fifteenth Amendment
C) affirming the ruling in the Dred Scott case
D) ruling that convict-lease programs were constitutional
A
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World War I was supposed to be a war "to make the world safe for democracy." With all this language, how did Americans apply these ideals to the treatment of blacks?
A) They didn't. Americans continued to hold onto racism, and reacted violently against blacks. B) After the war, blacks gained substantial rights, as the Civil Rights Movement began in the 1920s. C) Many Americans began to question racism and its ideas after the war. D) Although the military was integrated during World War I, few other democratic changes were made.
In recent decades Nigeria has experienced all of the following except
a. military rulers. b. tension between Christians and Muslims. c. struggles between pastoralists and farmers. d. wide-spread prosperity because of its great natural resources. e. considerable political and military violence.
The Cuban missile crisis ended when
A) the United States invaded Cuba and overthrew Batista. B) the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade Cuba and his agreement to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey. C) Khrushchev agreed to end the blockade of Berlin. D) the United States threatened to impose a strict embargo on all Cuban exports. E) None of these answers is correct.
Manifest destiny might best be described as the belief that Americans were
A) God's chosen people. B) a melting pot of immigrants. C) obligated to educate the Native Americans. D) destined to abolish slavery.