James Buchanan
A. opposed the admission of Kansas as a slave state.
B. refused to enforce the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.
C. weakly opposed the Dred Scott decision.
D. pressured Congress to admit Kansas under the Lecompton constitution.
E. None of these answers is correct.
D
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The Taft-Hartley Act
A) outlawed the closed shop and permitted the president to call a cooling-off period to delay a strike. B) expanded the rights of labor unions. C) constituted a slave-labor bill that crippled the labor movement in the United States. D) was the cornerstone of President Truman's Fair Deal. E) was the first New Deal act that was repealed in the Truman administration.
The general assumptions of American republicanism were modeled after those of French thinkers.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
By the late 1860s, the dominant form of agricultural labor for black Southerners was as __________
A) independent land owners B) day laborers C) sharecroppers D) overseers
The composition of free black households in most major cities suggests:
A) most women raised their children in single-parent households. B) most households were two-parent. C) freedom did not alter household composition. D) women chose not to marry.