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📝 Background to the civil rights problem in USA

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Q1. During the second half of the seventeenth century, colonists in Virginia began importing slaves in large numbers primarily to work on which cash crop?

🔹 A. Rice

🔹 B. Tobacco

🔹 C. Cotton

🔹 D. Wheat

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. Why did many Southern whites find Reconstruction policies, such as Black voting rights and integrated schools, difficult to accept?

🔹 A. They believed the policies violated states' rights

🔹 B. They feared economic competition from freedpeople

🔹 C. They thought the policies were a federal overreach threatening the traditional social order

🔹 D. They opposed any changes to agricultural production methods

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: C

Q3. If one‑fifth of the U.S. population in 1800 were African American and that number equaled roughly 5 million, what was the estimated total population?

🔹 A. \(20{,}000{,}000\)

🔹 B. \(25{,}000{,}000\)

🔹 C. \(30{,}000{,}000\)

🔹 D. \(35{,}000{,}000\)

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: C

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