Why Did President Dwight Eisenhower Deploy Federal Troops to Little

question 53

Multiple Choice

Why did President Dwight Eisenhower deploy federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957?

• A) There were massive race riots as a result of a federal court order to bus white children into African American neighborhoods for schooling.
• B) The governor of Arkansas mobilized the Arkansas National Guard to block the enforcement of a federal court order to integrate Little Rock Central High School.
• C) Ku Klux Klan members from Little Rock were making terrorist threats against President Eisenhower if the local school district tried to integrate.
• D) It was feared that communists had infiltrated the local government.
• E) The local police refused to respond to calls from African American neighborhoods.

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Definitions:

Hapsis

Perceptual ability to discriminate objects on the basis of touch.

Proprioception

The sense of the relative position of body parts and strength of effort being employed in movement.

Sensory Receptors

Specialized cells or neuronal processes that detect and respond to external or internal stimuli, converting them into electrical signals for the nervous system.

Somatosensory System

A part of the sensory system concerned with receiving and processing sensory information from the body, including touch, temperature, pain, and proprioception.