The Missouri Compromise of 1819
A. extended slavery throughout the Louisiana Territory.
B. maintained the nation's equal number of slave and free states.
C. was roundly criticized by nationalists in the North.
D. created a northern boundary of slavery at the 42°40? parallel.
E. denied statehood for Missouri for two more years.
B
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Why did Whig efforts to revive interest in nationalistic economic policies during the election of 1852 fail?
a. Business was thriving under the Democratic economic program. b. Americans were worried about budget deficits. c. Such policies were associated with the slaveholding South. d. Most Americans were disinterested in the economy.
In response to the Townshend Acts, many colonial women
A) aided in the boycott of imported goods. B) were instrumental in initiating the Revolutionary War. C) proposed an income tax. D) began to grow their own tea. E) stopped purchasing new clothing for their families.
How is the story of Doña Marina representative of the collapse of Mesoamerican and South American societies?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of these nations took the lead in the African slave trade after 1640?
A. England
B. the Netherlands
C. Spain
D. Portugal