Author Question: Why did Brazil's white rulers hesitate to enact discriminatory and segregationist public policies ... (Read 73 times)

tatyanajohnson · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Why did Brazil's white rulers hesitate to enact discriminatory and segregationist public policies that were applied in the Unites States?

A. because blacks in Brazil comprised a far larger proportion of the population than blacks in the United States
B. because blacks in Brazil and United states were equally proportionate in number
C. because all black slaves in the United States fled to Brazil after the civil war
D. because the blacks in Brazil, unlike those in the United States, had not experienced slavery
E. because the blacks in Brazil were protected under the Jim Crow laws

Question 2

In the United States, after the Civil War, many states passed Jim Crow laws that ________.

A. depoliticized racial identity
B. consisted of nondiscriminatory laws for political stability
C. released all black slaves to return to normal life
D. provided equal rights as the whites to black people
E. segregated and discriminated against anyone who looked even a little bit black