The majority of those killed in the Triangle fire were

older men.

mostly young women.

all older women.

mostly children.

Why did blacks refer to Chicago as "the Promised Land"?

they saw it as one full of economic opportunities

they wanted to return home to their birthplace

they realized it was the best place to receive an education

they knew the urban north would be a life free of racism

What was the reality of a sharecropper's life in the Delta?

a time of quiet contemplation while working with family members

freedom to achieve whatever your slave ancestors could not

a destitute existence where it was nearly impossible to make money

a stepping stone to owning land and beginning your own business

What happened at "the settle"?

the sharecropper negotiated with the plantation manager for a fair cotton price

an outside arbitrator was brought in to negotiate cotton crop prices

the plantation manager paid the sharecropper for his share of crop

the sharecroppers banded together to form a union.
What taboo subject did Ida B. Wells suggest was consensual between black men and white women?

drinking

smoking pot

sex

co-habitation

How did Ida B. Wells attempt to change the way Americans viewed lynchings?

as an institution where whites were not guilty of crimes done against humanity

as a crime where whites could be rehabilitated through community service

as a historical tradition where blacks were helpless to change the prevailing system

as a practice where whites were the problem and blacks those in need of justice

"Place" refers to:

the notion that immigrants should stay in their own neighborhoods.

the idea that immigrants should stay in Europe, Asia, or Latin America.

the belief that black folks should stay in the rural South, away from northern cities.

the feeling that black folks should remain segregated from whites, and make no demands for better schools, housing, or high-wage jobs.

To what does the author of "Tulsa Burning" credit for the lack of knowledge of the riot in the city of Tulsa today?

the city has been rebuilt

Black folks got over it, moved back to town, but never forgot the past.

The city of Tulsa has a bad case of collective denial about what happened.

The Ku Klux Klan "white-washed" the historical accounts of the event.