On the issue of secession, most Northerners agreed that
a. the union was a voluntary association and therefore could be dissolved.
b. the Southern states were an economic drain on the nation and so the North would actually profit from secession.
c. secession was unconstitutional, treasonable, and impossible.
d. the issue should be decided by the Supreme Court, not by the president.
e. the issue should be decided by a nationwide referendum.
c
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a. eliminated when the Catholic Hapsburgs came to rule the country. b. limited to the German population. c. largely eliminated by the Turkish invasion in 1526 that destroyed most of the Hungarian nobility. d. established during the Hussite movement in neighboring Bohemia. e. strong among the nobility and townspeople and influenced the country's intellectual life.
The leader of the Transcendental Club and the founder of Brook Farm was
A) Lyman Beecher.
B) Theodore Dwight Weld.
C) George Ripley.
D) Henry David Thoreau
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a. Iran's military alliance with the Soviet Union, directed against Israel. b. Americans were held hostage in Tehran. c. the Iranian government's demand that the Shah be returned so he could be put on trial. d. President Jimmy Carter's freezing of Iranian economic assets in the United States. e. America ended the purchase of Iranian oil.