The proslavery argument
A. was fully developed before 1830 as part of the anti-tariff campaign.
B. was successful in influencing northern public opinion on slavery.
C. refused to consider the Bible, depending instead on racist scientific treatises.
D. was developed primarily to satisfy the consciences of southerners.
Answer: D
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After Hitler and Stalin signed the nonaggression pact in 1939, what action did Japan take?
A. It decided to declare war on the Soviet Union. B. It reevaluated its cooperation with Nazi Germany. C. It ignored threats from the United States to cut off oil and scrap iron. D. It launched a surprise attack on American and European colonies in Southeast Asia. E. It renewed its attacks against China.
What was Bartolome de Las Casas' relationship to the encomienda system?
a. He designed and implemented it. b. He considered it the lynchpin of capitalism. c. He considered it immoral and protested it. d. He performed marriages between Spanish explorers and enslaved native women. e. He convinced Moctezuma to provide slaves to Spanish settlements.
By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was
a. stronger than at any previous time. b. holding steadfastly to the belief that spiritual conversion was essential for church membership. c. moving away from clerical intellectualism. d. less fervid than when the colonies were established. e. becoming less tolerant.
When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, the most serious shortcoming in the country's financial structure was that
a. federal paper money was not backed by sound gold or silver. b. heavy state and federal regulation of big business and trusts that handicapped the development of business in America. c. the banking system was too heavily regulated by the federal government. d. the U.S. dollar was rigidly tied to gold. e. money for lending was inelastic and heavily concentrated in New York City.