When it came to the issue of the extension of slavery, President James K. Polk favored
A. an extension of the Missouri Compromise.
B. abolitionism.
C. popular sovereignty.
D. the Wilmot Proviso.
E. Free Soil.
A
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was designed to provide
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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a. women's equality, workers' rights, end to the death penalty, and liberation of all subjugated nations. b. effective leadership of a popular uprising. c. armed liberation of Sicily and a bloodless takeover of Naples. d. a surprisingly easy conquest of Rome. e. the subordination of his own personal ambitions to the needs of Italy.