Which of the following was NOT a motive for antiabolitionism in Boston?
a) Prejudice against blacks was common in the North as well as in the South.
b) A mood of conservatism and a longing for stability was commonplace in America in the mid-1830's.
c) Abolitionists were thought to be French agents secretly fermenting revolution in America.
d) Attacks on slavery were thought to threaten the economic well-being of the North.
e) Southerners warned that unless abolitionists were suppressed they would destroy the union.
c
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a. activists who met at the home of Mary McLeod Bethune to discuss civil rights strategies. b. the huge influence that Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes had on FDR's decision-making. c. Supreme Court members who ruled that New Deal reforms were unconstitutional. d. labor leaders who argued their positions by lobbying for the attention of Eleanor Roosevelt.
President Carter's treaty with Panama ceded U.S. operation of the Panama Canal effective December 31,
A) ?1999. B) ?2002. C) ?2005. D) ?2007. E) ?2010.
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A. Caesar B. Pompey C. Crassus D. Cicero
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A. ordering a naval quarantine of Cuba B. ordering a surgical air strike against the installations C. publicly threatening a full-scale military invasion of Cuba D. undertaking quiet negotiations with Castro