Southern political strategies of the 1850s depended on __________

A) stopping the Underground Railroad
B) the concept of manifest destiny
C) popular sovereignty
D) maintaining supremacy in the U.S. Senate


Answer: D

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A. William Harper argued that slaveholding was essentially a matter of property rights. B. Proslavery writers in the 1840s and 1850s asserted that whites were the more intellectual race, and blacks the race more inherently physical and destined for labor. C. Presbyterian minister George Bourne was welcomed in Virginia for his antislavery sermons. D. John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams were close allies in the antislavery movement.

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Exodusters were those blacks who

A) settled in the Great Plains. B) were dirt farmers in Tennessee. C) farmed in Oklahoma Territory. D) settled in Kansas.

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What will be an ideal response?

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Which of these men came to power in France as First Consul, in 1799?

A) Maximilien Robespierre B) Napoleon Bonaparte C) René Descartes D) Louis XVI

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