Introduction to African American Studies
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Course Introduction
Introduction to African American Studies offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the history, culture, and contributions of African Americans from the earliest presence in North America to the present day. The course examines key themes such as the transatlantic slave trade, struggles for civil rights and social justice, expressions of identity through literature, music, and art, and the ongoing impact of race and systemic inequality in the United States. Students will engage with a variety of texts and media, critically analyzing how African American experiences have shaped and been shaped by broader historical, social, and cultural forces.
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Chapter 1: Africa
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Q1) According to the "out-of-Africa" model for development of man, A) modern humans actually emerged in Europe about 200,000 years ago, rather than Africa.
B) African peoples and other human groups are actually very distinct genetically, since many different groups developed at the same time from different types of hominids.
C) modern humans evolved in Europe, Africa and Asia from Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens.
D) modern humans originated in Africa, and began migrating to the rest of the world about 100,000 years ago.
Answer: D
Q2) The earliest known hominids were the A) australopithecines.
B) Homo sapiens.
C) Homo erectus.
D) paleoanthropologists
Answer: A
Q3) Most of the northern third of the African continent is made up of the ___________ Desert.
Answer: Sahara
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Chapter 2: Middle Passage
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Q1) 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
Q2) What do we learn of slavery from the story of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo of Bondu?
A) Almost all Africans were illiterate members of very poor tribes.
B) English slavers deliberately sought out certain Africans to assist them in enslaving more tribal groups.
C) Some Africans were successful in organizing armed resistance to the British slave efforts.
D) The experiences of captured slaves varied considerably according to the available resources, class level and education of the slave.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Black People in Colonial North America
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Q1) What does the story of Anthony Johnson, a black man in early Virginia, tell us about blacks in general in the colonies before the 1670s?
A) Blacks never were able to gain their freedom from slavery.
B) Blacks had no legal rights in the courts, as opposed to the Spanish system.
C) Blacks could own fairly substantial amounts of property, and have their own servants and slaves.
D) Blacks were rarely allowed any types of rights, as they were always considered "chattel."
Answer: C
Q2) Which statement is true of the colonists at Jamestown in the early months of 1619?
A) The colonists were all white until a Dutch warship brought about 20 Africans to the colony.
B) The colonists were roughly half white and half black.
C) The colonists included some of African descent.
D) The colonists were evenly divided between blacks, whites and Native Americans.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence
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Q1) Which of the following is not true about life for black soldiers during the Revolution?
A) They risked their lives as spies behind enemy lines.
B) Black men fought at nearly every major battle throughout the war.
C) They fought in segregated units.
D) A black did have the opportunity, although rare, to become an officer.
Q2) How did the colonists, armed with Enlightenment thought, interpret the actions and policies of the British government in the 1760s and the 1770s?
A) They were furious because the taxes were high and would take away their hard-earned wealth.
B) They thought the British government was engaged in a great conspiracy to take away their natural rights and make them slaves.
C) The colonists really had very little reaction to the British government's actions at this time. They were able to get around the policies very easily.
D) The colonists pushed for additional regulations, because they realized they could not protect themselves against encroaching Indians.
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Q1) In general, which of the following was not a reasons why a master might free a slave?
A) It might generate a profit for them, in addition to the slaves' labor.
B) They might think that manumission was the only way to keep slaves from leaving en masse.
C) They might not find a certain slave useful.
D) Most masters after the revolution tended to believe in the equality of all humans.
Q2) Which of the following was not a difficulty faced by early black schools?
A) There were threats of violence against them by whites.
B) They never had sufficient enrollment.
C) African-American parents thought that schools were useless.
D) Funding was a constant problem, as many African Americans had little money.
Q3) What statement is not true about mutual aid societies?
A) They were patterned after white institutions.
B) They were always blind to color difference, especially within black society.
C) They were similar to insurance companies, and helped provide benefits in the event of death and sickness for their members.
D) They completely eliminated racial discrimination in the insurance industry.
Q4) Which slave led a rebellion in Virginia in 1800?
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Chapter 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom
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Q1) What does the example of Celia and Robert Newsom in 1855 tell us about sexual exploitation of black women?
A) The court refused to accept that Celia had a right to defend herself from rape.
B) White men could be held accountable for the murder of their slaves, especially female slaves.
C) Sexual exploitation rarely happened, since generally the slave women instigated the matter.
D) Sometimes sexual relationships between white men and black women could be consensual.
Q2) Kentucky raised a significant quantity of hemp, a plant related to marijuana. What was hemp used for?
A) medicine and painkillers
B) helping to start fires for iron production
C) feeding cows
D) rope and bagging for cotton bales
Q3) Most victims of the slave trade moved by foot, usually chained or roped together, in groups called _______________.
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Chapter 7: Free Black People in Antebellum America
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Q1) Who was the first African American to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court?
Q2) 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
Q3) Why was it difficult for blacks to find jobs in the North after 1820?
A) There were very few jobs in the North after 1820, due to an economic depression.
B) White immigration increased, and employers preferred to hire whites.
C) Racism began in the North only after 1820.
D) .Industry, especially textiles, began to shift to the south.
Q4) When property qualifications were removed from voting requirements in most states during the Age of Jackson,
A) elites disfranchised black men.
B) elites continued to allow those wealthy black men who could vote before to vote.
C) elites opened the voting process up to black women as well.
D) elites allowed Native Americans to vote, but not any other ethnic group.
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Chapter 8: Opposition to Slavery
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Q1) Other than Africa, where did some African Americans choose to migrate?
Q2) Which of the following is not a correct statement about the effort to colonize free African Americans?
A) The rate of colonization was far too low to be effective, not even keeping up with the increase in the slave population.
B) American blacks found the cultures of their new lands very different, and often didn't adapt.
C) All blacks supported colonization, and looked forward to moving to Africa.
D) Colonization occurred in Africa and Haiti..
Q3) What was a difference between Gabriel's Rebellion and Vesey's Rebellion?
A) Only Gabriel's was influenced by the French and Haitian Revolutions.
B) Vesey included more elements of religion in his plot.
C) Vesey was a slave, and Gabriel was a free man.
D) Gabriel's Conspiracy was successful.
Q4) 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
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Chapter 9: Let Your Motto Be Resistance
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Q1) Why do we know very little about the underground railroad?
A) The records of the organization were burned in a fire set by white mobs.
B) It was only a myth, told by antislavery advocates to keep black slaves' hopes alive.
C) It was a secret organization with no centralized command, and the efforts were separated from each other by region and time.
D) It existed for only two years, and had only one leader, Harriet Tubman.
Q2) Which of the following is true about black participation in the new AFASS versus the AASS?
A) The AFASS forbid any black involvement.
B) Blacks had a greater, more prominent, leadership role in the AFASS.
C) The AFASS had more black members, but refused to allow blacks to have leadership roles.
D) The AASS always had more prominent blacks in leadership positions.
Q3) What was the most significant abolitionist society?
A) American Colonization Society
B) Americans for a Democratic Society
C) Christian Freedom Organization of Philadelphia
D) American Anti-Slavery Society
Q4) What was the name of Frederick Douglass's influential newspaper?
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Q1) What does the story of Shadrach Minkins tell us about the Fugitive Slave Act?
A) Abolitionists were prepared to break the laws to help slaves.
B) Whites in the North were just as racist as whites in the South.
C) Black churches were very important in helping slaves escape to freedom.
D) Abolitionists would only go so far to help slaves, and sometimes let them be returned to slavery if they thought the story would generate more sympathy.
Q2) Where did Stephen Douglas stand on the issue of slavery?
A) He was for popular sovereignty, and thought masters should be able to bring their slaves anywhere.
B) He thought that slavery should be abolished immediately.
C) He thought that blacks and white should have equal political and social rights.
D) He thought that all blacks should be shipped back to Africa as quickly as possible.
Q3) Who supported John Brown's efforts financially?
A) Most white northerners donated some money.
B) a few wealthy abolitionist and black leaders
C) a few southerners who were sick of the troubles over slavery
D) a large portion of the African American "Forty Niners"
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Chapter 11: Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War
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Q1) How did southerners react to black troops fighting for the Union?
A) They generally refused to recognize them as prisoners of war, and instead attempted to treat them like escaped slaves.
B) They treated them as they did the other white Union prisoners, infuriating Lincoln, who wanted the prisoners kept separate.
C) They attempted to persuade them to become slaves and fight for freedom with the South.
D) They immediately hung every black soldier they caught.
Q2) Which of the following slave states was never a member of the Confederacy?
A) Virginia
B) Delaware
C) Tennessee
D) North Carolina
Q3) What can be said about the First South Carolina Volunteers?
A) They were well paid for black troops, almost as well as the whites.
B) They were generally all from the North.
C) General Hunter sometimes used white troops to force blacks to volunteer.
D) They fought bravely at the assault on Fort Wagner.
Q4) Which black unit was involved in the assault on Battery Wagner in July of 1863?
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Chapter 12: The Meaning of Freedom: the Promise of Reconstruction
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Q1) What form did the violence in the South take?
A) only against individuals, when whites saw blacks "stepping out of line"
B) generally, only with mobs of whites lynching black men
C) generally, with significant provocation from the black victim before murders took place
D) violence was widespread, and took any form and any level of brutality
Q2) What did the Fourteenth Amendment not do?
A) It made all people born in the United States citizens.
B) It unpardoned many of the people Johnson had pardoned.
C) It made the black codes unconstitutional.
D) It explicitly gave black men the right to vote.
Q3) Which of the following is true about the Port Royal Experiment?
A) Ex-slaves began to work the land around Port Royal, South Carolina, and some were able to purchase property.
B) It was a Southern experiment to re-institute slavery. The experiment failed when Lincoln discovered it.
C) It was an attempt to force slaves into industrial labor in the North.
D) Blacks there were immediately forced on ships to go to Africa.
Q4) 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 was the result of the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
A) It eliminated all discrimination in public places on the basis of race.
B) It was championed by both Republicans and Democrats.
C) It was eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
D) It was never passed by either house of Congress.
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) Which three states were still unredeemed in 1876?
A) Florida, Georgia, and Alabama
B) Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina
C) Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia
D) Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana
Q4) ________________ is the right to be brought before a judge and not be arrested or jailed without cause.
Q5) The number of blacks elected to office in the former Confederate states during Reconstruction generally depended on _____________________.
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Chapter 14: White Supremacy Triumphant: African
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Q1) How did the railroad companies feel about segregation?
A) They opposed the idea, mainly because they wanted equal access for blacks.
B) They opposed the idea, because they wanted the additional money from blacks buying first class tickets.
C) They opposed the idea, because they did not want to have the added expense of maintaining separate cars.
D) Railroad companies were strongly behind segregation.
Q2) What is true about the number of lynchings in the South over the period 1889-1932?
A) About two to three people were lynched every week.
B) It was actually very small, although the black press constantly reported false occurrences.
C) About ten people were lynched daily, in the South alone.
D) No statistics were ever kept about the numbers of lynchings.
Q3) When black men moved within the South, to where did they usually go?
A) to urban areas, where they had more, and different, economic opportunities
B) to Florida, which had the most liberal race laws
C) to another rural area, where they could use the skills they had
D) to the South Carolina coast, where jobs were readily available in agriculture
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) Who was Hampton Institute's most famous and prized student?
Q2) What was not a reason why some people were critical of Washington's approach with the Tuskegee Institute?
A) Critics would have preferred an emphasis on liberal arts education.
B) Critics felt it merely prepared blacks to accept subordinate positions in life.
C) Critics felt Washington's model merely continued forms of labor perpetuated in slavery.
D) Critics often felt that Washington was pushing too hard for change.
Q3) Why did whites send blacks to fight in Cuba?
A) They thought blacks were actually braver.
B) They thought blacks were immune to yellow fever, and would withstand the climate better.
C) They were hoping that a majority of blacks in America would be killed in the fighting.
D) The whites responsible for military policy understood that fighting would prove blacks the equal to whites.
Q4) Who began the push to eliminate black men from major league baseball?
Q5) Who is regarded as the "father of the blues"?
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Chapter 16: Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African
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Q1) How did Woodrow Wilson act toward black people when he became president?
A) Wilson was a firm believer that blacks and whites should be equal.
B) Wilson held southern views about race; he segregated federal offices to avoid friction between the races.
C) Although Wilson didn't personally like blacks, he did appoint substantial numbers of them to high offices in his administration.
D) Wilson did everything he could to restrict black voting rights and other political opportunities.
Q2) What type of political influence did Booker T. Washington have?
A) Very little, since white politicians of the time all felt blacks were socially inferior.
B) Washington actually had tremendous influence for a black man at the time. President Teddy Roosevelt respected him, and consulted with him regularly on political appointments.
C) Washington, like most blacks, was generally ignored by whites at this time.
D) Very little, since he felt blacks should not agitate for political equality.
Q3) What was the first college sorority for black women?
Q4) What was the motto of the NACW?
Q5) 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) How did the New York Giants' (baseball) manager attempt to get a black man into baseball?
A) by having him wear makeup over his skin
B) by describing him as the best baseball player he had ever seen
C) by filing a legal suit against the league for discrimination
D) by describing him as a Native American, rather than a black person
Q2) For what proposal is Garvey best remembered?
A) establishing the Black Star Line, a group of steamships that were supposed to help blacks get back to Africa
B) filing legal cases against the system of segregation
C) setting up numerous schools for young black children in New York
D) forcing many blacks to enlist in his army, and fight New York policemen on a daily basis
Q3) What organization reemerged shortly after the release of the movie, The Birth of a Nation?
A) NAACP
B) Ku Klux Klan
C) Actors Against Racism
D) the first motion picture rating organization
Q4) What organization was Randolph asked to lead in 1925?
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Q1) Who was central to the NAACP's effectiveness during the 1930s in chipping away at segregation through the court system?
Q2) How were jobs allocated in the tobacco industry?
A) Overall, they were allocated pretty fairly-all positions were given out according to skills and ability.
B) They were allocated strictly by race and gender. This left black women with the most difficult and tedious jobs.
C) Black women were generally the only workers in the tobacco industry, so they exercised a tremendous amount of political clout.
D) Generally, only according to seniority within the company.
Q3) What was a problem with the Civilian Conservation Corps?
A) It only employed whites.
B) It employed few blacks in segregated camps.
C) It paid whites and blacks the same amount, and provoked violent riots among many white workers.
D) Many workers were made sick because of the focus on urban, industrial work in the CCC.
Q4) 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) Who replaced Wright as "best known black American male writer"?
A) Ralph Ellison
B) Toni Morrison
C) James Baldwin
D) Langston Hughes.
Q2) Which of the following is true about Mahalia Jackson?
A) She was a famous gospel singer, based in Chicago.
B) She was the first African-American woman to write a fiction book published by a white press.
C) She was a journalist who campaigned against lynching.
D) She was an innovator in the area of dance in Chicago.
Q3) Who broke the color barrier in baseball in 1947?
A) Satchel Paige
B) Jackie Robinson
C) Rube Foster
D) Sammy Sosa
Q4) Who was the leader of the Peace Mission Movement?
Q5) What did the development of black culture during the 1930s and 1940s help African Americans counter?
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Chapter 20: The World War Ii Era and the Seeds of a Revolution, 1936-1948
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Q1) What prominent African American was affected by the anti-communist witch hunts?
A) Ralph Bunche
B) Paul Robeson
C) Mahalia Jackson
D) Mabel Staupers
Q2) How did President Roosevelt respond to requests to improve blacks' situation in the defense program before the election of 1940?
A) He immediately desegregated the armed forces, but refused to desegregate defense industry jobs.
B) He immediately desegregated defense industries, but refused to desegregate the armed forces.
C) He did very little, other than token appointments for blacks.
D) He was unable to push any changes for blacks through the very racist Congress.
Q3) What prompted President Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 9346?
A) Mabel Stauper's efforts to end quotas for black nurses
B) the March on Washington Movement
C) the murder of 2500 black soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge
D) the ineffectiveness of the FEPC during the early part of World War II
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Chapter 21: The Freedom Movement
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Q1) What event sparked the Montgomery bus boycott?
A) the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.
B) the arrest of Rosa Parks, a local seamstress and civil rights activist
C) the violence against black men on the buses
D) A dispute over police brutality in the city.
Q2) How did whites in Alabama react to the Freedom Riders passing through their state?
A) They paid little attention, since the riders were peaceful and made no trouble.
B) They reacted violently, bombing the buses and beating the riders and bystanders.
C) They generally supported the black students, as long as they were peaceful.
D) They supported the students with donations of food and money.
Q3) When Rosa Parks was arrested, how long did E. D. Nixon and Jo Ann Robinson initially plan for the boycott to last?
A) one day
B) one month
C) one year
D) ninety days
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) Which of the following was not a characteristic of poetry during the black arts movement?
A) It combined sounds and rhythms of the street, music, and religious sermons.
B) It was published by a variety of journals in Chicago, Detroit, and New York.
C) It generally only used very formal, stilted language to dramatize the effects of white society on black life.
D) The only poetry published was by black men.
Q2) Who was often considered the most popular black writer of the black arts movement?
A) James Baldwin
B) Richard Wright
C) Martin Luther King
D) LeRoi Jones
Q3) What led to the downfall of Great Society programs?
A) Lyndon Johnson's increased spending on the Vietnam War
B) Johnson losing interest in the Great Society
C) the election of Richard Nixon
D) the violence of the Black Power movement
Q4) Who was the first black woman to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list?
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Q1) What statements of Farrakhan's attracted national attention during and after the 1984 presidential campaign?
A) He said that blacks were actually superior to whites.
B) He said he hoped for a return to a male-dominated, segregated society, where blacks were subordinate.
C) He denounced rap music, and called it "the music of the devil."
D) He made anti-Semitic comments, stating that he thought Jewish people were at the heart of black problems in America.
Q2) 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.
Q3) What rap artist emerged to counter the images of women presented by gangsta rap artists?
Q4) For what did Pope John Paul II apologize in 1993?
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Q1) What did the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke involve?
A) the discrimination against a black student attempting to enroll in law school
B) a white man who claimed that he was not allowed to vote with black students
C) a white man who said that the University of California's admission requirements discriminated against him
D) a group of black and white students who refused to attend classes together
Q2) Which of the following groups was not a part of the coalition that elected Ronald Reagan in 1980?
A) white southerners unhappy with the civil rights movement changes
B) people opposed to women's rights and abortion rights
C) white northerners unhappy about busing and affirmative action
D) people who hoped to increase government spending on different government programs
Q3) What was the effect of Reagan's policies on the EEOC and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights?
A) His actions made the groups far stronger and pervasive in American society.
B) He had no policies with respect to these agencies.
C) Both were hampered in operations or reduced to insignificance.
D) Reagan abolished both of them during his first few days in office.
Q4) Who led the "Rainbow Coalition"?
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