Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 antagonized the North the most?
A) The entrance of California as a free state in the Union
B) The abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
C) The use of popular sovereignty as the basis for determining the status of slavery in the territories
D) The strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act
E) The federal assumption of the Texas debt
D
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When the French first explored the St. Lawrence River in the sixteenth century, what were they looking for?
a. Northwest passage to Chinese markets. b. Access to fur trade. c. Gold mines. d. A new colony. e. Opportunities against the Spanish.
The central narrative of this module involves laws regarding slavery becoming more __________
a) detailed and restrictive b) lax and open c) difficult to enforce d) strongly opposed by the colonists
Eighteenth-century monarchs increasingly
A) followed pacifist, “rational” foreign policies. B) sought to stem the spread of the Enlightenment. C) changed their public image from that of a self-aggrandizing absolutist to that of a diligent servant of the state. D) turned the governing of their states over to their ministers, while they pursued a life of opulent leisure. E) saw themselves as products of divine right.
Demonstrate in what ways Benjamin Franklin's complaint in the 1760s that the souring of relations between England and the American colonies was the fault of British trade policies
What will be an ideal response?