Which group or groups did the flu epidemic of 1918 strike most seriously?

A) the elderly and sick
B) middle-aged women
C) healthy young adults
D) children in poverty

W.E.B. Du Bois helped found the National Association for the advancement of Colored People in 1909 to

A) provide black businesses with technical assistance.
B) give college grants to African-American students.
C) fight white people.
D) advanced the cause of civil rights.

The head of the American Federation of labor was

A) Eugene Debs.
B) Samuel Gompers.
C) Edward Bellamy.
D) Henry Clay Frick.

How did World War I begin?

A) The British Navy launched an assault.
B) German forces overran neutral Belgium.
C) Russia invaded Poland.
D) Italy retreated from the Alps.

Why did Calvin Coolidge veto the McNary-Haugen bill?

A) It did not provide enough support for farmers.
B) Coolidge was against free markets.
C) America did not need overseas products.
D) Coolidge was a Progressive politician.
E) Coolidge favored laissez-faire economics.

During and after his trips to Africa in 1964,Malcolm X did all of the following EXCEPT

A) sever ties with Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam.
B) call on African nations to place the violation of black Americans' human rights before the U.N.
C) form a secular organization to foster unity among black Americans.
D) harden his conviction that all whites were "devils" and racists.