"Lame-duck" President James Buchanan believed that
a. southern states had a legal right to secede from the Union.
b. his duty was to protect federal installations from assault.
c. firm political and economic pressure would bring an end to secession.
d. secession was just a political tactic to enhance southern power in Congress.
e. the Constitution did not authorize him to force southern states to stay in the Union.
e
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a. five-story apartment building b. balloon frame house c. Gothic-style churches and homes d. Greek-revival style
Which of the following sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean to India?
a. Ferdinand Magellan b. Vasco da Gama c. Bartholomeu Dias d. Christopher Columbus e. Henry the Navigator
Søren Kierkegaard wrote that truth is
a. objective and verifiable. b. subjective and personal, achieved through passion and commitment. c. not the question. d. the mind's projection of order onto a chaotic world. e. reached though critical thinking.
Child labor
A) began with the industrial transformation. B) was limited to short workdays and easy tasks. C) was hard and physically harmful. D) was not used in mines or textile mills. E) was not used in the agricultural sector.