How did Senator Stephen Douglas salvage the Compromise of 1850?
a. He won a public endorsement of the compromise from President Zachary Taylor.
b. He ultimately allowed southern Democrats to dictate the terms of the compromise.
c. He introduced each measure of the compromise separately and in that way gained passage of all of themeasures
d. He threatened to remove Democrats who opposed the compromise from important congressionalcommittees.
c
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Henry VIII aided the entrance of Protestant beliefs into England when he
a. allowed Martin Luther to journey to England. b. broke England's ties with the Catholic Church. c. removed himself as the head of the Church of England. d. ordered John Calvin to go to Switzerland. e. supported the Puritans.
In the presidential election of 1992, William Clinton
a. won California’s electoral votes. b. won several mountain states that had not voted Democratic since 1964. c. won a plurality of the popular vote. d. carried several Southern states. e. all of these choices.
How was slavery an obvious contradiction to the principles of the American republic?
A) Slavery showed how poorly treated black women were. B) Americans claimed to be fighting for freedom, but still enslaved others. C) Slavery funded much of the Revolution, so it was part of the new republic. D) Slavery was a British institution and had no place in an independent America. E) People who fought in the war and enslaved others were too violent for a republic.
The area of the United States that experienced dramatic growth from the 1970s to the 1990s was the ________
A) Pacific Northwest B) Great Lakes region C) Northeast coast D) Midwest E) Sunbelt