The Forty-Niners were men who found a minimum of forty-nine pounds of gold during the California gold rush
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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What did the results of the Confederate convention demonstrate?
a. The leaders of the Confederacy wanted to re-create the Union as it had been before the rise of the Republican Party. b. The leaders of the Confederacy believed that one day they would rule over all of North America. c. The leaders of the Confederacy wanted to re-create the United States as it had been under the Articles of Confederation. d. The leaders of the Confederacy hoped to establish a slaveholder’s utopia.
In the case of Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall opted to
A) acknowledge the legitimacy of Marbury's claim, but rule that the law authorizing his suit was unconstitutional, which satisfied no one. B) resign from the court, thus accepting the mandate the Republicans had received in the election of 1800. C) order that Marbury's commission be delivered, thus asserting the power of the Supreme Court but running the risk that the administration would ignore the order. D) refuse to order that Marbury's commission be delivered, thus appearing to buckle under to the executive branch. E) declare that Marbury was entitled to a commission, but decline to give the order due to a legal technicality, which gave everyone a partial victory.
Mao Zedong's New Democracy
a. was designed to expel the Turkic population from western China. b. moved slowly, at first, in order not to alienate the peasants. c. gave private land to five percent of peasant families, to increase collectivization. d. was patterned on Stalin's "Open Society" plan. e. was modeled upon that found in France during the "Terror.".
The Townshend Duties, introduced in 1767, did not provoke a violent colonial response because
A. no new taxes were levied. B. merchants understood that they were simply an effort to regulate trade. C. while some taxes increased, others on glass, lead, and paint were reduced. D. they imposed import duties rather than direct taxes.