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Wadzanai

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Which of the following was NOT an oppressive White response to Black emancipation immediately following the Civil War?
 
  a. Black people, even elderly women such as Rosa Parks, were required to give their bus seats to White people.
  b. The Ku Klux Klan and local vigilante groups conducted raids, lynchings, beatings, and burnings.
  c. The courts were much more likely to send Blacks to prison than Whites.
  d. Overt slavery was replaced with a more covert kind of slavery: sharecropping.

Question 2

According to Harding, one way newly freed Blacks asserted their independence after the Civil War, despite ongoing oppression, was to
 
  a. request permission to carry guns and drive carriages.
  b. enslave White people in sharecropper arrangements.
  c. send their children to formerly Whites-only schools.
  d. withdraw women from the full-time agricultural labor force.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a. Black people, even elderly women such as Rosa Parks, were required to give their bus seats to White people.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: d. withdraw women from the full-time agricultural labor force.



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