After serving four terms in the Illinois legislature and one term in Congress, Abraham Lincoln was propelled back into politics by the shock of
a. the Kansas-Nebraska bill
b. the Dred Scott decision.
c. John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
d. Bleeding Kansas.
e. the Fugitive Slave Law.
a
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A) Inca and Huari B) Zapotec and Olmec C) Aztec and Toltec D) Teotihuanaco and Zapotec
The Battle of Antietam in September 1862
A) was a strategic victory for the South because General Grant called off his invasion of Richmond. B) encouraged Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. C) encouraged Great Britain and France to recognize the Confederacy as an independent nation. D) was General Ambrose Burnside's most famous victory E) revealed Robert E. Lee's genius in staging a battle.
The Napoleonic Code established a patriarchal structure, in which the husband had greater rights and authority than his wife.
a. true b. false
One of the writers who sharply dissented from the general American optimism and belief in democracy was
a. Nathaniel Hawthorne. b. James Fenimore Cooper. c. Walt Whitman. d. William McGuffey. e. Emily Dickinson.