The gathering at Amritsar (1919), the rallies in Soweto (1976) and the demonstrations in Tianamen Square (1989) directly resulted in (4) violence against the protesters. The Amritsar Massacre was when groups of nonviolent protesters gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh Garden and were fired upon by troops from the British Indian Army. The Soweto Uprising was a series of protests led by high school students who did not want to have the Afrikaans medium of instruction instilled in their schools, but this was met with huge violence and an extremely high number of casualties. The Tiananmen Square protests was when Chinese students protested because of China's corrupt political system and many protesters and civilians were killed.
The Wade-Davis Bill passed by Congress, then vetoed by Lincoln stipulated that a majority percentage of voters in Confederate states must take an oath of future loyalty to the Union before a process of restoration could begin. Out of these answers this would be B) 70.
The European colonization had devastating impact on Native Americans due to environmental changes and the introduction of diseases:
- The introduction of European weapons linked to the popularity of beavers led to overhunting. <u>Overhunting led to the extinction of beavers which affected the ecosystem as a whole. Europeans also brought pigs to the new land that ended up eating the foods deers and other animals depended on leading to scarcity.</u>
- <u>Europeans brought with them diseases (such as smallpox) that the native population were NOT immune to which resulted in a great number of deaths. The high mortality rate of the older population meant the loss of both tradition and knowledge.</u>
