What was the most common initial reason for settlement in North America by the first colonists?
a. family reunification
b. religious freedom
c. flight from diseases rampaging through Europe
d. commerce
Answer: d
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a. It is a strategy that originated with the Cold War. b. It is an offensive strategy; deterrence is defensive. c. It was used by conservative monarchical states to contain the ideology espoused by the French Revolution. d. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union adopted containment as an official policy to balance against American power. e. It uses only soft military power, as in economic sanctions.
Which individual was NOT one of the "Big Four" African Americans who shaped the civil rights struggle in the 1950s and 1960s?
A) Wiley Bishop B) Martin Luther King, Jr. C) Whitney Young D) Roy Wilkins