At its 1860 convention, the Democratic Party
a. split into northern and southern wings, each nominating a different presidential candidate.
b. pledged to support the Court's decision in the Dred Scott case.
c. included a plank in its platform calling for the extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the PacificOcean
d. narrowly defeated an antislavery minority report calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery.
a
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A. burning B. horse pasture C. fallow fields D. artificial fertilizer
What outlet did Greek women have as a source of power in public life?
A) Spartan women became warriors alongside their men. B) Women frequently acted as priestesses in Greek religion. C) Rural women would conduct business inside the poleis. D) Athenian women enjoyed citizenship and all the rights associated with such status. E) They were responsible for some of the greatest scientific achievements of the Greeks.
Which of the following was an indictment of totalitarianism?
a. The Revolt of the Masses b. The Treason of the Intellectuals c. Animal Farm d. White Crucifixion e. The Myth of the State
Why did slavery come to be known as "the peculiar institution" in the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. It spawned new African American religious and cultural practices that white Americans found deeply alien. b. As slavery faded away in the North, it was increasingly associated with the South, where it became more entrenched. c. The three-fifths compromise in the Constitution seemed increasingly strange and outdated to Southerners. d. As the free black population grew larger than the slave population in America, slaves became the exception rather the norm among African Americans. e. The end of American participation in the international slave trade in 1807 made slavery seem a doomed throwback to colonial times.