The bloodiest and most terrifying slave revolt of the early nineteenth century was the __________ insurrection of 1831.
a. Prosser
b. Stono
c. Denmark Vesey
d. Nat Turner
d. Nat Turner
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________ advocated a "loose" interpretation of the "necessary and proper" clause to support the creation of a national bank
A) Thomas Jefferson B) Patrick Henry C) James Madison D) Alexander Hamilton
In the "Freeport Doctrine,"
a. the Supreme Court ruled that residence in Freeport, Illinois, did not automatically free runaways. b. Stephen Douglas suggested that the territories could maintain popular sovereignty by refusing to protect slavery there. c. Abraham Lincoln agreed that there was no means of preventing the extension of slavery. d. Stephen Douglas insisted that slavery was legal in all the free states and territories. e. slaves who escaped to the North were declared free.
American Indian activists brought attention to their cause in the 1970s by seizing
a. the Little Big Horn battleground and Mount Rushmore in the sacred Black Hills. b. Alcatraz Island and Wounded Knee, South Dakota. c. the major tribal headquarters throughout Oklahoma. d. salmon fishing grounds in Washington and trout streams in Wisconsin and Minnesota. e. the Tippecanoe battlefield and Mesa Verde National Park.
Whose action sparked the Montgomery bus boycott?
A) Martin Luther King, Jr. B) Ella Baker C) Rosa Parks D) Thurgood Marshall E) Orval Faubus