In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as
a. territory governed by the Missouri Compromise.
b. slave territory worth contesting against antislavery northerners to determine the territory's ultimate political status.
c. geographically unsuitable for slavery.
d. too close to free states for slavery to be practical.
e. a test for slavery in wheat-growing areas.
b
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A) Constantine. B) Clovis. C) Alaric. D) Odoacer. E) Aetius.
The Islamic world in the mid-eleventh century was largely unified and dominated by the
A) Fatimids. B) Ottomans. C) Berbers. D) Abbasids. E) Seljuks.
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A) James Buchanan Duke
B) R.J. Reynolds
C) Joseph Marlboro
D) Philip Morris