What was the result of the popularity of the Populist Party among blacks in the South?
A) Blacks were able to gain substantial numbers of political offices and dominate politics in the South.
B) Since blacks were completely excluded from formal participation in politics, they could not vote for Populists.
C) Southerners realized that blacks were a potent political force and that they would have to share power politically.
D) It heightened fears of white southerners that African Americans might gain political power.
Answer: D
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A. They had begun massive rearmament programs. B. They were experiencing severe inflation. C. They were pouring massive sums into social welfare programs. D. They depended on reparations payments from Germany to pay their loans and, since American banks had stopped making loans to Germany, those reparations payments ceased.
When order was restored in China in 1928, what kind of government established control?
a. The old regime transformed into a republican form of government. b. Local warlords effectively replaced the state. c. The party known as the Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, which embodied Sun Yat-Sen's movement, completed the reconquest of virtually the whole of China. d. Yuan Shikai served as prime minister and provisional head of state.
Which of these was intentionally terminated by Mikhail Gorbachev?
A) the Soviet Union B) the Warsaw Pact C) glasnost D) the Brezhnev Doctrine
State ratification convention delegates from South Carolina had all of the following serious concerns about the Constitution EXCEPT
A) states being able to retain powers not expressly relinquished by the provisions of the Constitution. B) the political and economic interests of the northern states were being protected to the detriment of southern states. C) future possible limitations being placed on the institution of slavery. D) the Constitution made it too difficult raise a sufficient army to protect the country from Indians and external threats from nations such as Britain and France.