Which of the following best describes the attitudes of white northerners toward African Americans in the early 1850s?
A) ?Rigid and paternalistic
B) ?Ambivalent
C) ?Accepting
D) ?Tolerant and condescending
E) ?Puzzled but unafraid
B
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A) own B) natural C) man made D) all of the above
The new Fugitive Slave Law enacted in 1850
A) required ordinary citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves. B) was carefully designed to protect the basic civil liberties of fugitive slaves and northern free African Americans. C) generally went unenforced. D) was ruled unconstitutional in Prigg v. Pennsylvania.
The citizens of Hiroshima used all of the following rumors to explain their city's escape
from raids prior to the dropping of the atomic bomb EXCEPT a) they were favored by God. b) Americans liked the city and wanted to visit it after the war. c) the city had been spared for some special punishment. d) President Truman's mother lived nearby. e) all of the above
Of all the political innovations of the era of the American Revolution, which can be considered the most radical?
A) the theory that power within a government had to be restrained through a series of checks and balances. B) the realization that both houses of a bicameral legislature represented all the people, not just narrow classes. C) the idea that political institutions should be judged by the standard of whether they served the public good rather than the interests of the powerful few. D) the assertion that government was based on the consent of the governed and that revolution, therefore, was sometimes justifiable. E) the introduction of government with powers divided among three branches.