Along with the violence in Kansas, what other event inflamed sectional passions in May of 1856?
a. An attempt to assassinate Senator Charles Sumner by a slaver trader
b. A gathering of southern leaders in New Orleans to consider secession
c. The caning of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner by South Carolina Congressman Preston S. Brooks
d. Abraham Lincoln´s "House Divided" speech
e. A fist fight on the floor of the Senate between Stephen A. Douglas and Jefferson Davis
c
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What will be an ideal response?
Despite the adoption of their alphabet system from the Phoenicians, literacy in Greece
a. was limited only to the priests. b. remained elusive for several centuries, relying on oral traditions. c. was reserved for business transactions. d. was undermined by the diversity of languages in the Greek islands. e. divided between Phoenician and Linear B.
What system did the direct primary replace?
A. candidate selection by secret ballots B. candidate selection by machine bosses C. candidate selection by convention delegates D. an indirect primary
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).