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Which of the following is not true of the concentration of slave populations in the South before the Civil War?

What common method of enforcement of slave regulations was “an adaptation of the militia” in which free white men were expected to serve for a set period of time?

What action did JFK order after the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba?

What generic term denotes local laws enforcing a strict regime of slave repression, including bans on slaves striking white people, being absent without a pass, owning guns, hiring themselves out for extra work, appearing as a witness in court, and even playing drums?

hat effect did the above act have on the Kansas Territory?

How were the educational benefits from the GI Bill limited for African-American veterans?

Which branch of the federal government, the branch with ultimate power over the military, originally controlled the process of Reconstruction?

What emerging field of study, which often involved measurement of skull size and theories of evolving species, gave whites scientific excuses for their racial preconceptions of blacks as unintelligent and backward?

Despite the end of the slave trade in 1808, some smugglers continued to import slaves to the United States from Africa illegally.

After the United States entered the war in 1917–three years after it began–President Wilson desegregated the military in an effort to promote racial equality.