By 1850 southerners had reason to fear for the future of slavery for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) Congress had banned slavery from the territories ceded by Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
B) slavery was declining in the Upper South.
C) slave ownership was increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands in the South itself.
D) Britain had abolished slavery in their Caribbean colonies.
A
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The work style changes that occurred as factory production transformed the American economy included:
A) shorter work hours than the pre-industrial sun-up to sun-down experience. B) the regulation of work lives by clocks and bells. C) a blending of work and relaxation at the job site. D) a blending of work and leisure.
Few Loyalists were so disaffected as to leave the United States as a result of their opposition to the Revolutionary War.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following tribes was NOT a northeastern tribe?
A) The Wampanoag B) The Massachusetts C) The Narragansett D) The Mohawk E) The Cheyenne