The African Americans -- "Exodusters" -- who left the South beginning in the 1870s
a. were lured to the North by agents seeking industrial workers
b. moved to escape poverty.
c. were acting on a rumor that there was free land for them in Kansas.
d. comprised 50,000 people hoping to resettle in Africa and leave southern racism behind.
e. were acting on the advice of noted leader Booker T. Washington.
b
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Factors that led to Herbert Hoover's victory in 1928 included all of the following EXCEPT
a. Hoover's anti-prohibition stance drew new Republican votes from ethnic workers. b. fundamentalists attacked Al Smith because he was a Roman Catholic. c. the voters associated the apparent prosperity of the 1920s with the Republicans. d. Hoover had always distanced himself from the reactionary wing of the Republican Party.
Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship among the Allies during the Second World War?
a. The relationship reflected the closeness of friends locked together in a mutual quest for survival. b. It was a hostile relationship with each nation openly criticizing the failings of the others. c. Cooperation among the Allies was undermined by an undercurrent of suspicion. d. Only after D-Day did the relationship become one of complete trust.
Women emigrated from Spain to the New World
A) beginning with Columbus. B) exclusively as free women. C) almost always as nuns. D) in large numbers from the very beginning.
Why was the leadership of the labor organization movement taken over by the American Federation of Labor?
A) the demise of the Knights of Labor B) the birth of Congress of Industrial Organization C) the creation of International Workers of the World D) the rise of United Labor Party