The more extreme wing of the temperance movement, which sought to make alcohol illegal, won a major legislative breakthrough with the
a. Whiskey Rebellion.
b. New York Statute of 1844.
c. Maine Law of 1851.
d. Comstock Law of 1856.
e. Congressional Pledge of 1839.
c
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Which of these explains why southern cities had police forces much earlier than northern cities?
A) fear of slave uprisings B) higher rates of immigration C) faster industrialization D) more developed transportation infrastructure
The author of The Sound and the Fury, and perhaps the finest novelist of the era, was
A) Thomas Wolfe. B) Margaret Mitchell. C) William Faulkner. D) John Dos Passos.
Between 1663 and 1681, Maryland differed from other English colonists in that it
a. required masters to emancipate any slave who converted to Christianity. b. formally recognized marriages between black slaves and free whites. c. stipulated that, whether a black woman was enslaved or free, her children would be slaves. d. allowed black men to gain their independence by serving in the colonial militia against Native Americans.
In 1994, the Republican Party won control of both houses of Congress for the first time since the 1950s; they proclaimed their triumph the "Freedom Revolution," and Newt Gingrich, a conservative congressman from Georgia, masterminded their platform, which was called
What will be an ideal response?