What was the significance of the Land Act of 1820?
A) It prohibited slavery in western territories.
B) It reserved land for Native Americans in Oklahoma.
C) It used the proceeds of land sales to fund the building of canals and roads.
D) It encouraged western settlement with cheap land.
D
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A) South Carolina and Georgia. B) South Carolina and Florida. C) Georgia and Alabama. D) Maryland and Virginia.
The Crittenden compromise would have __________
a. extended the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific b. abolished the national Fugitive Slave Law c. denied federal compensation to the owners of escaped slaves d. guaranteed slavery in all new territories e. changed the Constitution to allow slavery to be abolished in all the states
Who attempted to restore authoritarian, one-man rule in France after the Third Republic was established?
A) George Boulanger B) Napoleon III C) Alfred Dreyfus D) Georges Clemenceau E) Emile Zola
Estimates suggest that slightly more than ________ black Canadians chose to return to Sierra Leone with Thomas Peters
A) 4,000 B) 3,000 C) 2,000 D) 1,000