The correct answer is option B) "He defied the election results and stayed in power for two more years". The dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet on Chile extended from 1973 to 1990. The 1988 elections were initially a failure because it let Pinochet to stay in power even though he shouldn't by the Constitution. The 1988 Chilean national plebiscite was a national referendum that helped to put pressure on Pinochet, resulting in the end of his dictatorship in 1990.
The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.
It led the execution of 35 African Americans and some were hanged making it the biggest execution
It did not bring to an end the tremendous injustices that African Americans had to suffer on a day-to-day basis, and some of its activities, such as the work of the Federal Housing Administration, served to build rather than break down the walls of segregation that separated black from white in Jim Crow America. Yet as Mary McLeod Bethune once noted, the Roosevelt era represented “the first time in their history” that African Americans felt that they could communicate their grievances to their government with the “expectancy of sympathetic understanding and interpretation.” Indeed, it was during the New Deal, that the silent, invisible hand of racism was fully exposed as a national issue; as a problem that at the very least needed to be recognized; as something the county could no longer pretend did not exist.
