Abolitionist aid to escaping slaves and their defense of fugitive slaves from recapture pushed southern leaders to adopt policies that led to secession and the Civil War
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: TRUE
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A) Britain B) the Soviet Union C) Western Europe D) Japan
President Johnson's refusal to allow any change in his Reconstruction policies caused which of the following? a. The influence of the Radical Republican faction grew among conservative and moderate Republicans. b. Democrats in Congress were so angered that they began to vote with the Republican majority. c. Johnson's refusal established the precedent that policy decisions concerning a
conquered territory were to besolely in the hands of the president. d. Johnson's refusal angered the former plantation elite of the South, who had hoped that Congress would enacta more lenient Reconstruction plan.
The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was intended by some whites to
A. create sovereign nations within U.S. territory so that Indians could negotiate with other nations. B. allow Indians to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society. C. preserve native Indian traditions and languages. D. allow Indians to develop to a point where they would not need to assimilate into white society. E. None of these answers is correct.
Tensions over the role of women in abolitionism contributed to the splintering of the __________
A) American Anti-Slavery Society B) Liberty Party C) American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society D) American Colonization Society