The principle of popular sovereignty held that
A) the United States would hold a referendum to determine if slavery should be allowed to spread beyond its current boundaries.
B) each territory would decide for itself whether to allow slavery or not.
C) states could determine whether they would permit the buying and selling of slaves.
D) American citizens could determine how they would manage their slaves without interference.
E) the political party in power in any state could determine that state's slavery policies.
B
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All of the following is true of grieving parents during the Middle Ages except:
A. high infant and child mortality rates discouraged parents from viewing children as precious or cherished. B. dead children were sometimes carried by parents to pilgrim shrines. C. parental mental illness and suicide were sometimes brought on by the death of a child. D. medieval parents were found grieving as pitiably as modern parents do. E. mothers were found baptizing dead infants and children.
Most industry and infrastructure in the West and Midwest during the late nineteenth century was owned by
A) ?non-resident investors, many of them foreign. B) ?the national government. C) ?the state government. D) ?municipal governments. E) ?local investors.
What information shown on this map led to Stalin's decision in 1948 to block all Western overland traffic to Berlin?
A) the construction of airports in Berlin's Western zones B) the establishment of a wall between the Western and Soviet zones in Berlin C) the reunification of the Allied zones that established a democratic West Germany D) Churchill's declaration that an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe
Purohita, who taught devotional Hinduism, emphasized the
a. process of reincarnation. b. rituals performed by Brahmins. c. special communications with ancestors. d. special deities of the worshiper. e. spirits that inhabited trees, rocks, and other physical features.