Which of the following is true of the Compromise of 1850?
a. It completely rejected the idea of popular sovereignty.
b. It included a stronger fugitive slave law.
c. It abolished both slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
d. It angered northerners by acknowledging the boundary claims made by Texas.
b
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John Tyler became president __________
A) by winning the election of 1840 B) through a "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay C) after William Henry Harrison died in office D) by winning the election of 1836
The Atlanta Constitution journalist who coined the term "New South" was __________
A) Joseph Tape B) Henry Grady C) James Buchanan Duke D) Horace Greeley
The industrial economy affected women in all of the following ways except
a. women started agitating for political rights in the 1830s. b. women became associated more with household duties and men with family breadwinning. c. new modes of employment were created for women. d. skills required of employed women were lowered.
Hong Xiuquan's Taiping society demonstrated all EXCEPT which of the following?
a. equality between the sexes b. bible teachings c. common property d. restrictions on gambling e. free opium use