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- Which of the following was NOT an African American musician during the Harlem Renaissance?
- It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically.
- North - Slavery was abolished, Many cities were destroyed, Confederate money was worthless.South - Economy grew, but wages for workers did not; Women replaced men in the factories.
- Public school systems and teacher colleges were established; African Americans were admitted to some schools and colleges.
- state of collapse, value of land had fallen, Confederate money was worthless, 2/3 of transportation system in ruins, agricultural system in chaos because slaves had been freed
- kept African-Americans in a condition similar to slavery by requiring annual labor contracts, African-American children must accept apprenticeships and could be whipped/beaten, set specific work hours, required licenses to work in non-agricultural jobs
- How did the stock market crash weaken the banking system?
- the presidents wanted a moderate policy toward the South by granting pardons to Southern citizens & restoring Southern states to the Union, Congress wanted a harsh policy.
- Benjamin Lundy; founded anti-slavery newpaperJe hudi Ashmun; founded refuge on LiberiaWilliam Lloyd Garrison; published paper, found america nanti-slavery society.Fredrick Douglass; former slave (escaped), publisher, writer, opposed violence, popular speaker of anti-slavery society.Harriet Tubman; escaped slave, helped escape from the south.
- ending the bank of the United States, expanding westward and removing American Indians from the Southeast.
- Which Countries refused to agree to the London Naval Treaties?
- Where did the african Americans Migrated during the great migration?
- Because of Monroe's presidency; the name captured Americans' hopes of partisan and national unity following the War of 1812.
- Romanticists - advocated feeling over reason, inner spirituality over external rules, individual above society, & nature over environments created by humans.Transcendentalists - urged people to transcend, or overcome, the limits of their minds and let their souls reach out to embrace the beauty of the universe.
- - California was admitted to the Union as a free state- The remainder of the Mexican cession was divided into the two territories of New Mexico and Utah and organized without mention of slavery;- The claim of Texas to a portion of New Mexico was satisfied by a payment of $10 million;- New legislation (the Fugitive Slave Act) was passed to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their masters; and- The buying and selling of slaves (but not slavery) was abolished in the District of Columbia.
- Jackson's supporters came together in opposition to Adam's presidency and took the name Democratic-Republicans to stress their differences with Adams' party. Adam's became known as the National Republican party.
- What was the major reason behind Hoover's landslide victory in 1928?
- Which of the following best describes the racial tension in the U.S after WWI?
- John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath sympathetically portrayed the plight of
- Which of the following best describes African Americans' participation in WWI?