Apollo and Athena supported :)
The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for superiority in extraterrestrial exploration was called Space Race.
America had reason to compete against the Soviet Union in Space Race: Sputnik beat the United States to space in 1957, damaging its national pride and igniting fears of Soviet technology. The Soviet Union wanted space just as badly as the United States did. The Soviet Union and the United States differed in how they propagandized the Space Race, but they shared the common bond of actually having space programs.
Muslim traders brought Islam and the Arabic language to many places.
The correct answer is C) the Reconstruction Era.
Indeed, during the Reconstruction Era (1863-1877); white Southerners were especially aggravated and oppose to the occupation of the South by the Union army, the enfranchisement of African-American citizens and the election of African Americans to positions of political power that gave them ascendancy over white southerners. The Democrats had not won an election during 20 years and back then, the Democratic party, notably its southern Bourbon Democrat component was the party of slavery, racial discrimination and social (and later legal) discrimination towards black Americans.
The 1876 presidential elections saw Republican Candidate Rutherford Hayes oppose Northern Democrat Samuel Tilden for the office of POTUS. Tilden won the popular vote as well as the electoral vote but the fact was that four states in the South had inconclusive results due to death threats and intimidation towards African American voters who always voted Republican.
There was a constitutional crisis and southerners were threatening with armed insurrection if Hayes was sworn in as POTUS. During meetings behind closed doors, a deal was struck. Democrats accepted Hayes as president and in exchange occupation Union troops were withdrawn from the South, leaving southern African Americans vulnerable to reprisals, discrimination, social segregation and subjugation by Southern white democrats. This was called the 1877 Compromise which effectively ended the Reconstruction Era. This situation is the one described by this cartoon. Tilden was not sworn in as president and the blood of another southern insurrection was not spilled.
The crisis set the stage for the battle between Unionism and state's rights, which eventually led to the Civil War. The Nullification Crisis also stalled the agenda of President Jackson's second term and led to the formation of the Whig Party and the Second American Party System.
