Author Question: Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were a. retaliation for ... (Read 55 times)

Wadzanai · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were

a. retaliation for violent crimes against whites.
b. designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second-class status.
c. done to scare blacks into moving out of the South.
d. exceeding rare during the decade between 1890 and 1900.
e. prosecuted vigorously by Southern state and local legal authorities.

Question 2

The issue that finally touched off the movement toward the Constitutional Convention was

a. government control of public lands.
b. the struggle of control of commerce between states and the central government.
c. Indian policy.
d. monetary policy.
e. foreign threats to our independence.