What did votes on the five bills of the Compromise of 1850 reveal?
A) a fervent belief in states' rights
B) a tendency to vote along party lines
C) waning support for slavery
D) a passionate confirmation of the Union
E) a growing sectionalism
E
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Which of the following assumptions underlay the policy proposals made by Alfred Thayer Mahan?
a. that the United States was embroiled in a worldwide race for power b. that the United States was, and would always be, a nation of immigrants c. that the United States was a God-fearing nation d. that the United States had the right and the duty to dominate North America
Which of the successor kingdoms that emerged after Alexander the Great's death was centered in Egypt?
A) Pergamum B) Antigonid Kingdom C) Seleucid Kingdom D) Ptolemaic Kingdom
Scientists in the late nineteenth century and onward became the most successful group of Western intellectuals in __________.
A. reconciling their ideas with religious institutions B. directing technological innovation toward peaceful means C. obtaining the financial support of governments and private institutions for research D. working to overcome economic inequality
All of the following apply to the Hussites except
A) they were followers of Jan Hus, a Czech executed for heresy. B) they demanded, among other reforms, lay consumption of the bread and wine during the sacrament of Communion. C) they successfully resisted a series of military campaigns by the emperor and reached a compromise with the church. D) their movement ended with defeat at the Council of Constance. E) they claimed that the true church was the community of spiritual men and women.