Which state threatened to secede over what it described as the “tariff of abominations”?
A) South Carolina
B) Maine
C) Massachusetts
D) New York
Answer: A
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A) two young communists accused of plotting to overthrow the government B) two young white women who falsely accused nine black men of rape on a train C) a case where blacks' schoolteachers had taught the concept of evolution rather than the Biblical story of the evolution of man D) two young boys who were lynched by a group of whites for stealing candy from a white store owned by the local sheriff and police chief
The Russian act emancipating the serfs was __________.
A. limited because serfs had little access to land ownership B. successful in creating a middle class C. able to break the power of powerful regional aristocrats D. unable to suppress the demands of nationalist groups
Among opponents of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo were
a. Protestant leaders who worried about the annexation of Catholic subjects. b. expansionists who wanted the United States to take all of Mexico. c. anti-expansionists who worried about American exploitation of the Native peoples of northern Mexico. d. labor union leaders who did not want to compete with cheaper Mexican labor in the Southwest. e. environmentalists who worried about the American exploitation of such a vast tract of land.
The second- and third-largest economies today, after the U.S., are
a. Germany and Japan b. Japan and China c. China and France d. Russia and China e. Britain and Germany