What did the Ostend Manifesto of 1854 accuse the Pierce administration of doing?
A) accepting bribes from southern plantation owners
B) conspiring with Northerners to make the U.S. a “free soil wasteland”
C) wanting to punish the working class through taxation
D) wanting to create a “Caribbean slave empire” by annexing Cuba
E) discriminating against recent immigrants through unfair voting laws
Answer: D
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A) originally provided free health care for retired citizens B) showed the inability of FDR to create a consensus between opposing interests C) was exactly like health and retirement plans in European nations D) established federal responsibility in providing social welfare
A significant cloud that hung over the prosperity of the 1920s was the
a. large accumulation of consumer debt. b. technical problems in the production of radio and films. c. growing strength of labor unions. d. increasing competition among business people. e. heavy load of taxation on the middle class.
Why did slavery remain important to the economy of the Upper South in the 1830s and 1840s?
a. Tobacco prices remained steady and high for the entire period. b. The internal slave trade was an important source of income for the region. c. Most whites in the region owned at least one slave. d. Cotton cultivation spread north from the Lower South.
Northern states mobilized thousands of black troops in 1812 and 1813 for the war effort against Great Britain
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.