The Crittenden Compromise was proposed in response to
A) the secession of Southern states.
B) the Kentucky-Nebraska Act.
C) the election of Abraham Lincoln.
D) the nomination of two Democratic presidential candidates.
E) the proposal to allow slavery in the Western territories.
A
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A) Thailand B) Burma C) Annam D) Funan E) Kampuchea
The American Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, is based on the theory of government espoused by
a. Locke. b. Hobbes. c. Descartes. d. Montesquieu. e. Newton.
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a. Jean-Paul Satre b. Jacques Derrida c. Anna Akhmatova d. Alexander Solzhenitsyn e. Salmon Rushdie
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) sympathetically portrayed the plight of:
A) Oklahoma Dust Bowl migrants. B) unemployed Detroit factory workers. C) new immigrants in New York City. D) poor black farmers in Georgia.