Which of the following is not a reason why the Know-Nothing party declined rapidly?
A) The party's split into northern and southern.
B) The party's acceptance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
C) The party's radical policy of open membership and public meetings.
D) The party proved vulnerable to the challenge posed by the emerging Republican party.
E) The party's difficulty reconciling its antislavery attitudes with its anti-Catholic impulses.
C
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The contradiction between the concept that "all men are created equal" and the existence of slavery caused which of the following?
a. Some slaves in the North petitioned their state governments for freedom. b. Slaves in several northern states rose in rebellion against the institution of slavery. c. Northerners accepted the idea of the equality of the races. d. All northern states abolished slavery by 1800.
What governmental principle was at the heart of the disputes between modernists and Fundamentalists in the 1920s?
A. freedom of worship B. separation of powers C. separation of church and state D. federalism
The transition to writing involved the need to record
a. increasingly complex transactions. b. prayers and chants to the gods. c. the life and accomplishments of kings and generals. d. ancient stories of mythology. e. universal events.
The abolitionist zealot who massacred five proslavery advocates at Pottawatomie Creek was ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word