President Taylor ceased to be a factor in the crisis of 1850 when
a. he was assassinated by a southern fire-eater.
b. he was defeated for re-election.
c. he died of a gastric disturbance.
d. Douglas convinced him that California’s admission was entirely a congressional issue.
e. he supported the admission of California as a slave state.
ANS: C
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A) Study of European political institutions and philosophical ideas encouraged native leaders to seek national self-determination. B) Native leaders were neither culturally nor intellectually sophisticated enough to benefit from Western education. C) Western education was in general limited to males, while indigenous cultures were often matriarchal in structure. D) When colonial subjects received university training in Western Europe, they remained there instead of returning to their native countries. E) Increasingly, Western thinkers were criticizing standard scientific and philosophical ideas as naïve and no longer relevant.
On August 2, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox was destroyed by North Vietnamese patrol boats
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The practice of forcing captured sailors to serve in British naval crews was called what?
(A) impressment (B) sea-slaving (C) commandeering (D) requisitioning
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels argued that the elimination of private property would
a. empower the workers to have a revolution. b. strip the bourgeoisie of their oppressive powers. c. establish a new society without government. d. end the suffering of the third world. e. redistribute all material wealth universally.