Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840, when they backed the presidential candidate of the
a. Free Soil party.
b. Republican party.
c. Know-Nothing party.
d. Liberty party.
e. Socialist party.
d
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Why was the presidential campaign of 2008 considered a history-making campaign?
A. It was the most costly electoral contest in the nation's history and involved the first woman and the first African American to have a realistic chance at the White House. B. It was the shortest electoral contest in the nation's history and involved the first woman and the first African American to have a realistic chance at the White House. C. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tied for the Democratic nomination on "Super Tuesday" and remained tied, even after the next 11 primaries and the Maine caucus. D. Far fewer Americans paid attention to the presidential election than they did during any previous presidential election in the nation's history.
In the years surrounding the 1963 March on Washington, African Americans in the North and West
a. participated in the civil rights movement in the South but found no cause for complaint in their own regions. b. had become so powerful politically that they were able to abandon direct forms of protest and focused on solving their problems through the ballot box. c. continued to participate actively in protest movements aimed against de facto segregation and discrimination in the North. d. played little role in the civil rights movement, which remained an almost exclusively southern phenomenon.
Horace Mann advocated
a. free, tax-supported education. b. that teachers should concentrate on imparting the moral lessons to be learned from a study of the classics. c. that education was a private, family concern and not the concern of the state. d. religious indoctrination in state-supported schools.
British Canada gained a large French population as a result of
A) France's loss of its Canadian colonies in the Seven Years' War. B) the flight to Canada of French Protestants in the eighteenth century. C) French citizens fleeing the Napoleonic wars. D) French fur traders being driven out of the United States. E) All these answers are correct.