Abraham Lincoln firmly opposed the Crittenden Compromise because
a. it was really a return to Stephen Douglas's discredited popular sovereignty doctrine.
b. it permitted slavery in New Mexico territory.
c. it would restore an equal balance of slave and free states in the Senate.
d. it would make it impossible ever to end slavery in the South.
e. it could allow slavery to expand southward into Latin America.
e
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a. was vague and at the mercy of the courts b. had little effect on antitrust policy c. was only concerned with regulating railroads d. did not have criminal penalties for violators e. was used aggressively by the Justice Department
Someone sent to negotiate with the Five Nations would be meeting with:
A) Mohawks, Oneidas, Onodagsa, Cayugas, and Senecas. B) Mimacs, Crees, Montagnais, Ojibwas, and Hurons. C) Hurons, Mohawks, Creeks, Natchez and Aleuts. D) Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, Cherokees, Natchez.
Who are the group of people on the right of this image and what type of emotion do they seem to be expressing as federal troops sent by President Cleveland escort the first meat train out of the Chicago stockyards at the end of the Pullman strike
? A) They are passengers who are angry that their train has been delayed due to the strike. B) They are meat-packing and railroad entrepreneurs showing their gratitude to the troops. C) They are strikers demonstrating blame and hostility toward the troops for breaking the strike. D) They are strikebreakers thanking the troops and railroad executives for their new jobs.
It is estimated that the percentage of the Soviet economy that operated outside the legal system was
a. 10 percent. b. 20 percent. c. 33 percent. d. 60 percent. e. 75 percent.