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American Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the history, culture, politics, and society of the United States. Through critical analysis of literature, art, film, history, and social movements, this course examines the diverse experiences and identities that have shaped American life. Students investigate key themes such as democracy, race, gender, immigration, and national identity, while considering how the United States has influenced and been influenced by global contexts. By engaging with a variety of sources and perspectives, students gain a deeper understanding of the complexities and contradictions inherent in American society, both past and present.
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African American Odyssey The Combined Volume 5th Edition by Darlene Clark Hine
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Chapter 1: Africa
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Q1) The peoples of the forest regions of Western Africa are important in the study of African-American history because
A) they were the first region to open trade with Egypt and other Mediterranean areas.
B) they converted to Christianity in significant numbers.
C) they played an important role in the slave trade, both as traders and victims.
D) actually, the forest regions never became powerful enough to influence African history.
Answer: C
Q2) Most West Africans in the early sixteenth century made a living as ___________.
Answer: farmers
Q3) What was the Kingdom of Benin known for up to the seventeenth century?
A) elaborate, skillful work with diamonds
B) a large, sophisticated capital city, which had no beggars
C) a complete lack of slavery, unusual at the time
D) the only society dominated politically by women
Answer: D
Q4) The Portuguese referred to the area around the Congo River as ____________.
Answer: Angola
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Chapter 2: Middle Passage
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Q1) What steps did the Europeans take to reduce the risk of rebellion at the slave factories in Africa?
A) Slaves were kept drugged and shackled with heavy chains.
B) Families and ethnic groups were separated.
C) Men and women were separated into separate trading towns.
D) Europeans didn't really have to take many steps, as the completely overwhelmed Africans often submitted to the process.
Answer: B
Q2) What happened to many Africans once they became slaves in Muslim society?
A) They were always beaten and treated very harshly, and rarely survived more than a few months.
B) Many were freed or merged into Arab society.
C) Most were resold by the Arabs in Morocco to form a huge part of the European slave trade.
D) Both male and female African slaves were used as field labor.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Black People in Colonial North America
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Q1) What happened to the sophisticated Mississippian culture during the fourteenth century?
A) They were wiped out by European diseases.
B) They were destroyed by climatic change and warfare.
C) They became the most dominant culture in the hemisphere, after destroying a rival tribe.
D) They were the first culture to begin to use domesticated animals in agriculture in the world.
Answer: B
Q2) What is true about Native American relationships with African slaves?
A) Native Americans saw African slaves as very different, and quickly adopted racist views similar to those of the British.
B) Being very proud culturally, Native Americans refused to mix sexually with slaves.
C) Native Americans often provided refuge to escaping slaves and some areas saw extensive race mixing.
D) Native Americans never owned slaves, as they believed in the fundamental equality of people.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Rising Expectations: African Americans and the
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Q1) African Americans made many gains through the American Revolution. What was one limitation that they encountered?
A) They were not allowed to move into cities, and were forced to remain agricultural workers.
B) The free black population outside the North failed to increase in any significant way.
C) They faced many economic difficulties, made worse by whites who limited training and entry into certain fields and trades.
D) They were able to serve in the military in various capacities.
Q2) In what way does the final version of the Declaration of Independence specifically mention slavery?
A) It denounces the slave trade and calls for an end to it.
B) It does not mention it at all.
C) It calls for an immediate end to all inequality between all men and women, including blacks.
D) It lists attempts to get slaves to revolt as one of the wrongs perpetrated by the British.
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Q1) What compromise was made over the Atlantic slave trade in the Constitution?
A) It was immediately abolished, although southerners were allowed to keep the slaves they had.
B) It was gradually abolished over the next twenty years.
C) No compromise was made over the Atlantic slave trade. The Constitution outlawed the domestic slave trade.
D) The Constitution limited the Atlantic slave trade to a small number of ships per year, until a constitutional amendment after the Civil War banned it altogether.
Q2) Which of the following was not a force favoring the continuation of slavery?
A) the Constitution
B) the development of cotton as a cash crop
C) racism
D) continuing excitement over the Revolution
Q3) What prominent Protestant denomination came out of black efforts to establish a separate church in Philadelphia?
A) African Methodist Episcopal
B) Baptist
C) Catholics
D) Nation of Islam
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Chapter 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom
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Q1) Slave clothing was generally
A) Very beautiful, as the slave women wove their own cloth for their families and made all of their own clothes.
B) Plentiful, but often not very warm in colder regions of the South.
C) Pretty sparse, as they generally only got clothing from the master twice a year.
D) The same for all ages and genders of slaves.
Q2) "Jumping the broom" was
A) a European wedding custom, practiced by slaves at times.
B) an ancient African custom which informally joined a couple.
C) a method of punishing slaves.
D) a method of determining who one's mate would be.
Q3) Which of the following is not true about slave marriages?
A) Women and men were more equal as husband and wife than white couples.
B) Many masters allowed slaves to have legal, formal wedding ceremonies.
C) Couples sometimes did not live on the same plantation, and could only visit each other when the master allowed it.
D) Slaves tended not to take marriage very seriously, since they could be broken up at any time.
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Chapter 7: Free Black People in Antebellum America
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Q1) Most white northerners in the period 1820-1860
A) were generally more liberal than southerners in race issues.
B) wanted nothing to do with blacks, and had the same kind of racist ideas as southerners.
C) were about equally divided between those who wanted slavery to continue and those who fought against it.
D) thought that blacks were very hard, honest workers, and would take jobs away from them.
Q2) Regarding employment, free blacks in the Upper South
A) were never hired by whites, since they could get free slave labor.
B) faced less competition from immigrants until the 1850s, and therefore could get jobs in industry more easily than blacks in the North.
C) were in skilled trades, like carpenters, bakers, and barbers.
D) could generally only get jobs as barbers within the black community.
Q3) What types of skilled jobs were black men able to find?
A) ironwork or bricklayers
B) newspaper journalists
C) house servants
D) shoemakers or barbers
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Chapter 8: Opposition to Slavery
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Q1) Most women who opposed slavery did not have the status or education of women like Forten and Stewart. What did these women do in the abolitionist movement?
A) Very little. They had no opportunity to oppose slavery in public.
B) They could harbor fugitives or even buy relatives.
C) They could write letters to the editors of their newspapers expressing their views.
D) Some women could vote against pro-slavery politicians.
Q2) Who initially supported the American Colonization Society?
A) all northern whites
B) some upper South slaveholders
C) some atheists who had formed an antislavery group
D) several former presidents, including James Madison
Q3) What were the limitations of the early antislavery movement?
A) Blacks and whites worked in the same organization, but often could not agree on goals.
B) White abolitionists did not think that blacks should have equal rights.
C) Most did little to abolish slavery in the South.
D) They were generally only working for the gradual ending of slavery.
Q4) Other than Africa, where did some African Americans choose to migrate?
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Chapter 9: Let Your Motto Be Resistance
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Q1) Why did some black abolitionists become increasingly militant during the 1840s?
A) They were inspired by various slave rebellions and mutinies on ships.
B) They were unable to organize in any way because of racism.
C) They were extremely angry about whites continuing to subordinate women.
D) Historians do not yet understand this phenomenon.
Q2) Why did Frederick Douglass become disillusioned with the AASS?
A) They refused to turn toward violence, which he began to advocate.
B) They seemed to value him more for being a fugitive slave than for his oratory and intelligence.
C) He was upset because the AASS refused to press for the abolition of slavery in foreign countries as well as the United States.
D) He felt that the organization should turn toward the example of France and Spain in abolishing slavery.
Q3) Who was/were the main leader(s) of the underground railroad in the early 1840s?
A) Harriet Tubman
B) Charles T. Torrey and Thomas Smallwood
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Madison Washington
Q4) What was the usual destination of the slaves on the underground railroad?
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Q1) What effect did the new fugitive slave laws have on many whites in the North?
A) Whites were overjoyed to have the blacks removed from their territory.
B) Whites generally paid little attention to any issue involving blacks.
C) They were horrified, as they personally witnessed scenes of slaves being recaptured.
D) Whites in the North renounced racism and began to immediately work for black voting rights.
Q2) What was Lincoln's reaction to the secession of the Confederate States of America?
A) He warned them that he would not permit them to leave.
B) He accepted their leaving, but immediately decided to free the slaves in the remaining states.
C) At first, startled by their suddenness, Lincoln did nothing.
D) All of these are correct.
Q3) What was the main issue in the Dred Scott case?
A) whether all slaves should be free or not
B) whether a slave taken into free territory was free
C) whether a slave woman could be legally raped by a white man
D) whether the abolitionists could continue to use mass mailings as a major strategy
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Chapter 11: Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War
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Q1) How did Lincoln react to the actions of Gens. John C. Fremont and David Hunter, who ordered all slaves in their areas freed under the First Confiscation Act?
A) He generally ignored their actions.
B) He immediately countermanded their orders, and told them to stick to the letter of the law.
C) He immediately approved of their actions, sending them medals of valor and bravery for their support of the northern cause.
D) He approved of their actions privately, but required them to return slaves to their masters.
Q2) Other than outright racism, why did many white working-class people oppose the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
A) They feared that it would lead to social and political rights.
B) They feared that the freed slaves would rush into the North, and compete with them for jobs.
C) All northerners actually approved of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
D) They thought that it would make the southerners act more harshly toward their slaves.
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Chapter 12: The Meaning of Freedom: the Promise of Reconstruction
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Q1) Which of the following is not true of Special Field Order #15?
A) It set aside some land between Charleston and Jacksonville for former slave use.
B) Sherman allowed some of the slaves to use army mules.
C) Relative to the freed population of slaves, it affected a very large number of people.
D) The order forced former slaves to work in repairing the wartime damages to Southern cities.
Q2) What were some of the limitations of black teachers in the South?
A) They were often former house slaves, and had no knowledge about the lives of agricultural workers.
B) They were often poorly educated themselves.
C) They were highly educated, and frequently became very frustrated with their students.
D) They had some education, but were generally forced into teaching, and therefore put little effort into it.
Q3) The ________________ became the most important institution to blacks after Reconstruction.
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Chapter 13: The Meaning of Freedom: the Failure of Reconstruction,
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Q1) What is true about the constitutions developed by the Republican-dominated conventions?
A) They allowed all blacks to vote.
B) They did not disfranchise huge numbers of former Confederates.
C) They generally provided few guarantees to blacks.
D) None of these are true.
Q2) Where was the Klan most powerful in the South?
A) where blacks were a huge majority of the population
B) where blacks were a large minority of the population
C) where blacks were a small minority of the population
D) the KKK was very powerful in all areas of the South
Q3) The number of blacks elected to office in the former Confederate states during Reconstruction generally depended on _____________________.
Q4) What is true about the end of Reconstruction?
A) Whites learned that intimidation and violence would not reduce the amount of black voting.
B) Republicans regained control of southern legislatures.
C) It left few lasting benefits for blacks.
D) The high level of violence completely ended.
Q5) Where was the KKK founded?
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Chapter 14: White Supremacy Triumphant: African
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Q1) What problem did farmers not face during the later nineteenth century?
A) They had to depend on banks for loans, since they weren't self-sufficient any longer.
B) Businessmen, not farmers, dominated economic life in America.
C) They had easy access to railroads at very cheap prices.
D) Farmers faced very few problems during the late nineteenth century.
Q2) Which of the following was a belief of the Populist Party?
A) Government ownership of railroads and communication systems.
B) Blacks and whites should be social equals in America.
C) Economic control of the nation should move to bankers and industrialists.
D) That the government should become more involved in foreign affairs, particularly in Europe.
Q3) What were the actual reasons for many lynchings?
A) In many cases, blacks had committed a crime, and whites were impatient for justice.
B) Many blacks who competed with whites economically were lynched.
C) Lynchings occurred only because the lowest element of white society felt threatened by blacks.
D) Blacks had started some sort of violent protest in urban areas.
Q4) What was the name of the case that upheld Louisiana's segregation laws?
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Chapter 15: Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy
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Q1) Where did the term "buffalo soldiers" come from?
A) Blacks would use their free time to herd buffalo.
B) Native Americans admired blacks' fighting abilities, and thought their hair similar to the buffalo.
C) Blacks would frequently desert and run away during combat, a trait the Indians thought was like the buffalo.
D) Whites thought that blacks were so lazy and cowardly that they were going to be slaughtered like the buffalo.
Q2) What issues did some blacks and whites bring up to criticize the Spanish-American War?
A) It was merely a way for Americans to kill off black Americans.
B) The war was far too costly, and would hurt America's economy..
C) Some saw it merely as an attempt to extend subjugation of darker races and Jim Crow laws outside America's borders.
D) That the war dragged on far too long.
Q3) Who was Hampton Institute's most famous and prized student?
Q4) Who is regarded as the "father of the blues"?
Q5) Who began the push to eliminate black men from major league baseball?
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Chapter 16: Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African
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Q1) What types of political activities was Washington supporting behind the scenes?
A) He tried to get the grandfather clause overturned in the courts.
B) He tried to improve conditions on segregated railroad cars for blacks.
C) He tried to both improve conditions for blacks on segregated railroad cars and get the grandfather clause overturned in the courts.
D) Washington actually supported white supremacy on a number of occasions.
Q2) What methods did the NAACP use to try to gain black civil and political rights?
A) They worked within the court and legislative system, chipping away at discrimination, racism, and the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
B) They attempted to use violence, secretly, several times, but abandoned it after the government began an investigation of the organization.
C) They would hold huge rallies, with jazz and blues music to attract followers.
D) They worked actively to discredit Washington, and to limit funding to Tuskegee.
Q3) What book, written by W. E. B. Du Bois, was one of the major literary accomplishments of the twentieth century and contained his first formal attack on Washington?
Q4) What was the first college fraternity for black men?
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Chapter 17: African Americans and the 1920s
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Q1) What idea did works like Color Struck and The Blacker the Berry . . . reflect?
A) Blacks, if given the opportunity, could excel in America.
B) Many black people also had color prejudices against darker-skinned blacks.
C) Slaves were constantly beaten, and degraded.
D) Most black intellectuals were leaning toward communism as a solution to black problems.
Q2) What was the "Harlem Renaissance"?
A) an outpouring of literary and artistic work from blacks during the 1920s
B) a brief time when blacks in Harlem had equal social rights to whites during the 1920s
C) the name given to the time period when Harlem was growing larger, and getting more black institutions
D) a time when historical buildings in Harlem were given great attention
Q3) Why did the Harlem Renaissance end?
A) Racists began an influential campaign against the art and literature.
B) The great artists of the period began to die off.
C) The Great Depression devastated book sales across the country.
D) Artists' disagreements over the role of literature became very heated, and they split apart.
Q4) What organization was Randolph asked to lead in 1925?
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Chapter 18: Black Protests, the Great Depression, and the New Deal
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Q1) What was generally not a characteristic of black society during the Great Depression?
A) Many blacks emerged from the Great Depression owning little other than their bodies.
B) Blacks often refused to help others, since they barely had enough money or resources to even feed their families.
C) Women frequently would trade or share goods or services to get by.
D) Blacks actually made substantial gains in civil rights, since whites were preoccupied with the economy.
Q2) Which of the following was a reason for blacks to move over to the Democratic Party during the 1936 election?
A) Blacks felt that Roosevelt had been doing more for them than any other president.
B) Blacks wanted to support the Democratic Party, especially in the South.
C) Blacks actually didn't begin to support the Democratic Party until after World War II.
D) Blacks hoped to continue the dramatic gains made during the 1920s in civil rights.
Q3) Who was the first black Democrat to ever win a House of Representatives seat?
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Chapter 19: Meanings of Freedom: Culture and Society in the 1930s
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Q1) Which of the following was an alternative religion that became prominent among African Americans during the 1930s and 1940s?
A) the Peace Mission Movement
B) African Episcopal Methodists
C) the Nation of Muslims
D) the Church of God in Christ
Q2) What was one difference between Harlem Renaissance artists and Chicago Renaissance artists?
A) Chicago Renaissance writers focused solely on political gains for their race. They refused to take part in "frivolous" fictional writing.
B) Writers of the Chicago Renaissance refused to publish their works with white publishers.
C) Chicago Renaissance writers generally did not feel that their work would solve racial problems.
D) These artists were very similar in goals, methods, and projects.
Q3) Who was the leader of the Peace Mission Movement?
Q4) What did the development of black culture during the 1930s and 1940s help African Americans counter?
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Q1) What was not a spark to the Detroit Race Riot in 1943?
A) disputes over jobs and housing in Detroit
B) anger over the brutality of the police in Detroit
C) a fight over segregation of Detroit's beaches
D) anger over a dramatic rise in the price of food by white-owned businesses
Q2) How did the Cold War influence African Americans' struggle for rights?
A) It made racism and segregation less acceptable as the United States struggled for control and influence among African and Asian nations.
B) It decreased the power of the federal government, which was then less able to help blacks.
C) It decreased the power of the military, making military desegregation less significant.
D) The Soviet policy of overt racism was seen as negative by Americans.
Q3) What was significant about the Southern Regional Council?
A) It was a white racist group, dedicated to destroying the NAACP.
B) It was a black group, organized to fight for civil rights in the South.
C) It was an interracial group that challenged the racist system in the South.
D) It was a militant black group that focused on the use of violence to destroy racism.
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Chapter 21: The Freedom Movement
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Q1) Who was chosen to lead the new Montgomery Improvement Association?
A) E. D. Nixon
B) Rosa Parks
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Jo Ann Robinson
Q2) Why did students form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, rather than join the SCLC?
A) They thought that Martin Luther King was a communist.
B) They didn't agree with the type of leadership structure of the SCLC.
C) They thought that older people did not know anything about segregation.
D) All of these answers are correct.
Q3) Which of the following is true about the Montgomery bus boycott?
A) It was a spontaneous action with little planning, history, or effort behind it.
B) The bus boycott was a result of years of activism and organization.
C) The bus boycott damaged the city's buses, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
D) It was planned, led, and organized entirely by the capable Martin Luther King Jr.
Q4) Who was responsible for the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers?
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Chapter 22: Black Nationalism, Black Power, Black Arts, 1965-1976
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Q1) What was not a view of Malcolm X about changing black people's status in America prior to 1964?
A) He thought that nonviolence was an ineffective tactic.
B) He rejected integration, saying that most blacks did not want to spend time with whites.
C) He felt that real revolution would only come with bloodshed.
D) He hoped to work with the NAACP and Martin Luther King to affect change.
Q2) Why did the Black Panthers alarm white Americans?
A) They advocated self-defense, and frequently patrolled black neighborhoods with guns to protect them.
B) They were stressing a return to segregation, which had become unpopular.
C) They advocated violence against all whites, regardless of political views.
D) They hoped to move all African Americans to Africa, thereby removing an important part of the labor force.
Q3) Which college created the first black studies department in 1968?
A) University of California at Berkeley
B) San Francisco State College
C) Harvard University
D) University of Alabama
Q4) Who was the first black woman to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list?
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Chapter 23: African Americans at the Millennium
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Q1) Which of the following was not an achievement of the women's movement of the 1970s?
A) Women secured passage of a constitutional amendment prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.
B) Women gained access to affirmative action programs in higher education.
C) Women gained the right to a legal abortion.
D) Women pushed for equality in the workplace.
Q2) How was the cultural flowering of the 1980s and 1990s different from that in the 1960s and 1970s?
A) The art included more political flavor than before.
B) Literature was mainly aimed toward poetry in languages other than English.
C) Film began to be used as a political tool and art form.
D) The 1980s and 1990s included women, especially novelists, to a greater degree.
Q3) What institution continued to be at the center of black life during the late twentieth century?
A) newspapers
B) music, particularly rap
C) churches
D) the NAACP
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Q1) Why did President Bush's popularity plummet after the 2004 election?
A) Voters did not agree with his decision to appoint Rice as secretary of state.
B) Voters were angry about the way he handled the war in Iraq.
C) Voters did not like his economic policies, as the number of people in poverty skyrocketed.
D) Actually, Bush's popularity began to plummet after his election in 2000, not 2004.
Q2) Which city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005?
A) Houston
B) New Orleans
C) Miami
D) Galveston
Q3) Who became the president of South Africa at least partially as a result of the antiapartheid movement in the United States?
A) F. W. de Klerk
B) François Mitterrand
C) Nelson Mandela
D) W. E. B. Du Bois
Q4) Who led the "Rainbow Coalition"?
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