Why did the Sedition Act distress many Americans?
What will be an ideal response?
They believed it threatened their freedom of speech, which was protected by the first amendment.
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Resistance was in important part of World War II. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
a. Claus von Stauffenberg succeeded in his plan to assassinate high level German officials. b. Tito and his guerrilla force tied down huge numbers of German fighting men. c. Revolts took place in ghettos and camps. d. Norwegians destroyed supplies of heavy water. e. Italian partisans help to free Italy from the fascists.
John D. Rockefeller used all of the following tactics to achieve success in the oil industry EXCEPT
a. employing company spies. b. extorting secret rebates from railroads. c. providing inferior oil products to sell them more cheaply. d. gaining a near-monopoly on oil refineries. e. mercilessly squeezing out his competitors.
Which statement is NOT a reason why Thomas Jefferson's embargo failed?
a. He underestimated the determination of the British. b. He underestimated Britain's dependence on American trade. c. Britain produced a bumper grain crop in the embargo years. d. New Latin American markets provided an alternative for the British. e. He miscalculated the difficulty of enforcing it.
Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because
a. it allowed the doctrine of popular sovereignty to be overridden once statehood was achieved. b. it permitted slavery in the Utah territory. c. its adoption might provoke Kentucky to leave the Union. d. he felt bound by President Buchanan's earlier rejection of it. e. he had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery.