Northerners viewed the Brooks-Sumner affair as illustrative of the brutalizing effect of abolitionism on the North
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
FALSE
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What was a distinctive feature of settler colonies?
A) The economy depended on the cultivation of a single crop. B) They reflected the society and culture of the Old World. C) Warriors residing in castles ruled the native population. D) They functioned as trading posts for foreign merchants.
During the Reconstruction period, northerners
A) only reluctantly supported the idea of giving blacks the right to vote. B) generally wanted to confiscate the property of southern whites and give it to the blacks. C) enthusiastically endorsed the idea of black equality. D) opposed granting citizenship to blacks.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev surprised the world in a speech in February 1956, in which he
A) offered to destroy all Soviet nuclear weapons. B) declared communism to be a failure and embraced capitalism. C) denounced former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's tyranny, trials and purges of political rivals, and mass executions. D) promised to put a man on the moon by 1965.
Describe the role of African-American voters and leaders during Congressional Reconstruction in southern states. How powerful were they? What did the state governments they participated in "do for blacks"?
What will be an ideal response?