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cdr_15 · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

In the 1936 presidential campaign, there was a shift in black political allegiance of historic proportions when:

A) a majority of black voters abandoned the Republican party to support the Democrat Roosevelt.
B) nearly 50 percent of the black vote went to the Communist party.
C) a majority of black voters abandoned Roosevelt's New Dealers and supported the Republican party.
D) W. E. B. Du Bois rallied the black community around the Socialist party candidate, Norman Thomas.

Question 2

An important difference between Irish immigrants and other Americans was the tendency of the
former to

A) take up domestic service. B) move further west.
C) favor large families. D) scorn domestic service.