An outcome of the Missouri Compromise was that it:
A) dictated the spread of slavery in the East for three decades.
B) allowed Missouri to enter America as a free state.
C) enforced gradual emancipation in Missouri.
D) allowed Maine to enter America as a slave state.
E) set a divider between free and slave territories.
E
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Which of the following territories benefited the most from the settlement reached at the Congress of Vienna?
A) Poland B) Finland C) Norway D) Prussia
At one time or another all of the following were objectives of the French effort in North America, EXCEPT
A. establishing a permanent settlement. B. converting the Indians to Catholicism. C. the quest for profits through the fur trade. D. finding a place to resettle dissident French Protestants.
Throughout the late nineteenth century, the federal government
A. funded large public-works projects to alleviate unemployment. B. developed a prominent role in international relations. C. was relatively inactive. D. had no meaningful responsibilities. E. shrank in size in terms of employees and budget expenditures.
The long-term importance of the Truman Doctrine was that the United States __________.
A. committed itself to safeguarding the Free World from communism B. moved toward a policy of withdrawal and isolationism C. expressed its openness to compromise with the Soviet Union D. declared itself the champion of international free trade