<span>Through the use of poll taxes, literacy tests, and the _______________ ____________, freedmen were kept from voting during the Reconstruction era in South Carolina.</span>
Answer: B. Cuba was one of only two colonies in Spain’s shrinking empire in the Americas.
Option B i.e North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the correct answer.
In 1949, the United States, Canada, Iceland and other nine western nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom ) founded NATO. It is a military alliance which was established to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
<span>A democratically elected government replaced a military dictatorship
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The correct answer is - B. Mali became primarily a Muslim culture.
Mali and Axum had lot of similarities, but also some differences. While both of them were strong and powerful empires, they had different cultures, and were influenced by different sources.
Mali became influenced heavily by the Islam, thus gradually became a Muslim culture society and empire. Axum on the other hand was not influenced by the Islam, in fact Axum was considered as one of the biggest powers in the world at its peak, and it was the one that interfered in the Arabian Peninsula, not the other way around.