Incidents involving Anthony Burns and Thomas Sims demonstrated that the federal government __________
A) had no desire to offend northern abolitionists
B) would vigorously enforce the Fugitive Slave Law
C) would only enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in the South
D) would use the Fugitive Slave Law to recover blacks who fled to Canada
Answer: B
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Early nineteenth-century nationalism directly opposed the principle upheld at the Congress of Vienna that:
A. ethnicity, rather than monarchies or dynasties, provide the basis for political unity. B. legitimate monarchies or dynasties, rather than ethnicity, provide the basis for political unity. C. military strength, rather than ethnicity, provides the basis for political unity. D. common language should provide the basis for political unity. E. a set of common ideals should provide the basis for political unity.
The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
a. civil-service reform. b. civil rights for blacks. c. the currency question. d. foreign policy. e. tariff policy.
The Radical Republicans
(A) Were only a minority group in Congress (B) Wanted to punish the South for secession and the war (C) Wanted to protect the civil and political rights of blacks (D) All of the above
The representative from New York who proposed an 1819 amendment that would prevent further expansion of slavery in Missouri and grant gradual emancipation to those slaves already there was
A. John C. Calhoun. B. James Tallmadge Jr. C. Rufus King. D. John Jacob Astor. E. Henry Clay.