The main purpose of the Gwin Act (1851) was to
a. ensure that Americans gained as much good farming and ranching land in California as possible.
b. review evidence of Californio land ownership and any conflicting claims, and then to decide who legally owned all or parts of land grants.
c. stretch out as long as possible the process of affirming land titles to ensure that rancheros would give up before receiving legal recognition of their land ownership.
d. ensure that California Indians received some of the land that had been distributed as land grants to Mexicans.
b
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A) described sexual relations in negative terms B) were likely to have premarital sex C) disapproved of homosexuality D) used contraceptives and described sex in positive terms
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A) a meaningless abstraction and impediment to reason. B) derived from the law of supply and demand. C) a license to do as one pleased. D) a social consensus to which the individual must bow. E) identical to Locke's social contract.
What issue did the Whigs use to attack Martin Van Buren in the election of 1840?
a. His role in creating the Panic of 1837 b. The Nullification Crisis c. They portrayed him as an aristocrat, out of touch with the common man. d. Van Buren's opposition to slavery
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a) Scott Joplin b) W. C. Handy c) Homer Plessy d) Cab Calloway