The Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Congress with support from a coalition of __________.
A. northern Whigs and northern Democrats
B. southern Whigs and southern Democrats
C. northern and southern Democrats
D. northern and southern Whigs
Answer: B
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The debates in Congress in 1819 about whether Missouri would be admitted as a free state or a slave state
A) were punctuated by heated political rhetoric including threats of disunion that was harsher than Congress had heard in a long time. B) did not reflect growing sectional divisions in the country between the commercial North and the agricultural South. C) were even more vitriolic than future debates about slavery in the 1840s and 1850s. D) were influenced by the many radical abolitionists in the North and the many defenders of slavery in the South who asserted the institution was a wholly positive good.
The Congress System that resulted from the Congress of Vienna
A) achieved the unity of Europe. B) failed to reestablish the independence of France. C) unified the German states. D) established an atmosphere that resulted in general European peace for the next century. E) continued in force until 1914.
Why was the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s curtailed?
A) the weight of moral pressure from conservatives and the religious right B) the Supreme Court upholding "moral" legislation of various states C) the outbreak and spread of AIDS D) better education and social programs
To justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans pointed to
a. increased consumption of alcohol. b. the decline of fundamentalism. c. the rise of the women's movement. d. the theories of Sigmund Freud. e. the influence of erotically explicit movies.