Why did the elections of 1856 and 1860 not only fail to resolve the sectional crisis over slavery, but actually make it worse?
What will be an ideal response?
Key Points: the end of national consensus; the demise of national institutions; cultural conflicts
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What will be an ideal response?
__________ was sent to establish an English garrison near present-day Pittsburgh in 1754.
a. Coulon de Villiers b. Edward Braddock c. George Washington d. William Pitt
Who chaired the NAACP’s Legal Redress Committee in the 1910s?
a. Booker T. Washington b. Arthur Spingarn c. Francis J. Grimké d. W. E. B. Du Bois
What did the orders in council state?
a. that any ship trading with Europe was liable to be checked or stopped by the British b. that any ship trading with the British would be searched. c. that any ship inside British boundaries are liable to be set on fire or taken over by the British. d. that any ship inside French boundaries are liable to be set on fire or taken over by the British. e. none of the above, it was the Odors in Council not orders