What saved the Revolution as a whole when the "revolution of the lawyers" appeared doomed by the threat of royal armed forces in the summer of 1789?
a. The betrayal of the monarchy by high clergymen
b. The defection of key nobles of the sword to the rebels
c. The intervention of armed commoners, especially in urban uprisings
d. The outside influence of mercenary troops paid by the rebels
e. The intervention of Britain, whose constitutional monarch seemed threatened by upheaval in France
c
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The fugitive slave whose case set the state of Massachusetts against the federal government was:
A) Henry "Box" Brown. B) Anthony Burns. C) Harriet Jacobs. D) William Craft.
Irwin Unger concludes that an unbiased observer, balancing the Union's and the Confederacy's strengths and weaknesses in 1861, probably would have:
a. figured the North to win b. bet on the South, not the North c. predicted a short war d. noted the North's superior morale
Which of the following made urban expansion possible in early-nineteenth-century America?
a. Public transit b. The power of cities to annex adjacent unincorporated areas c. Donations of land to city governments d. Removal of the Native Americans
Reconstruction refers to
a. the rebuilding of infrastructure destroyed by the war. b. restoring the former Confederate states to a normal relationship with the Union. c. reclaiming of abandoned southern lands. d. reconstructing the lives of the former slaves. e. none of these choices.