Author Question: What was NAACP leader W. E. B. Du Bois alluding to when he stated that Garvey's Black Star Line, a ... (Read 70 times)

azncindy619 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

As depicted in this photograph, why did the group Indians of All Tribes decide to occupy the site of an abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay between 1969 and 1971?

A) Alcatraz prison had been the site where many Native Americans had been imprisoned during
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
B) They felt the prison was the perfect site because, like an Indian reservation, it also lacked
many basic facilities.
C) The island had been part of an earlier reservation set aside for California Indians before it was
taken away from them.
D) The island was the site of an ancestral burial ground before it became the site of a federal
prison.

Question 2

The Great Compromise, devised by Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, impacted Congress by __________.

A) resolving the dispute over representation in Congress
B) aggravating the tension between free and slave states over the slave trade
C) proposing that members of Congress be directly elected by the people
D) giving each state one vote in Congress

Question 3

What was NAACP leader W. E. B. Du Bois alluding to when he stated that Garvey's Black Star Line, a black-owned fleet of steamships, arose and disappeared, and with it went some 800,000 of the savings of West Indians and a few American

Negroes in his 1923 biographical sketch Marcus Garvey? A) Garvey's incompetence and dishonesty as a business leader
B) Garvey's prowess in running a successful enterprise
C) Garvey's idea of encouraging self-sufficiency by encouraging black-owned businesses
D) Garvey's insistence on establishing an independent nation in Africa