John Brown's major goal in attacking Harpers Ferry was to
A) keep slavery out of Kansas.
B) seize the federal arsenal and arm the slaves.
C) cut communications between Washington and the South.
D) punish the citizens for their support of slave catchers.
B
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The New Deal program, Aid to Dependent Children,
A) privileged African American children. B) assumed women were not heads of households. C) provided relief to few. D) was administered at the state level, and subject to local prejudices.
General Leo von Caprivi's and William II's new alliance system ________ the risk of war
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Aside from the question of taxation, one of the gravest problems that colonists in the American colonies had with Britain concerned the potential
a. abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic trading area. b. desire of Britain to extend its control into the Ohio River Valley. c. lack of political interest that Britain had in the government of the American colonies. d. failure of Britain to provide enough troops for the adequate protection of the American colonists in the towns and cities.
What compromise did the Constitutional Convention reach in regards to the slave trade?
A) Congress did not have the authority to ban the slave trade until 1808. B) The slave trade was banned in all states but Virginia. C) Only Southern states could conduct the slave trade. D) The international slave trade continued, but interstate trade was banned.