Why were many Northerners dismayed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a. It permitted the possibility of slavery in an area where it had been prohibited.
b. It halted the expansion of slavery to new territories.
c. It allowed the Union to continue to acquire new territories.
d. It allowed free African Americans to settle in the territories.
Answer: a. It permitted the possibility of slavery in an area where it had been prohibited.
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A) sudden increase in birth deformities among livestock. B) frightening total solar eclipse of that year. C) recent and devastating typhoid fever epidemic. D) raving testimony of young girls.
It could be said that Aristophanes
a. feared attacking authority figures. b. culminated the Ionian school of philosophy. c. was an itinerant philosopher whose ideas strongly influenced the young. d. criticized the diminishing sense of values among Athenians. e. believed only dramatic tragedies could lead Athenian audiences to a better life.
"Manumission" was
A. a slaveowner's ability to free his slaves. B. the use of white laborers alongside slaves in the same task. C. a slaveowner's ability to sell or trade his slaves. D. the death of a slave at the hands of a master. E. a slaveowner's ability to claim illegitimate slave children as his own.
Bubonic plague was spread to people by
a. Polluted water supplies. b. Flea bites that have drunk the blood of infected rodents. c. Contaminated food. d. African slaves. e. Lead in the pipes.