These political cartoons depicting attacks on Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri (top) and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts (bottom) by Southern politicians indicate that events in Congress in the 1850s provide evidence of the __________
. A) fervent passions about slavery that made it difficult to find compromise
B) Southern tendency toward brutality
C) proclivity toward violence that made the Civil War inevitable
D) weakness of antislavery Northerners
A
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When mine owners refused to meet with coal workers at the White House, Roosevelt
a. decided that the executive branch no longer had a role in labor disputes. b. made it clear that he would not use his influence to break the union. c. appealed to the Supreme Court to intervene on behalf of management. d. stated that John Mitchell's unreasonable nature had kept mine owners away.
After 1800, European empires increasingly claimed to use formally ________ labor, though they still involved much harsh treatment of non-white indigenous populations
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
About 2125 b.c.e. Sumerian ________ poems were composed, glorifying the deeds of the kings of Ur's ancestors
A. haiku B. epic C. lyric D. elegy E. idyll
How did abolitionists use the political system to fight slavery?
a. by forming third parties that advocated laws against slavery b. by bringing lawsuits against slave-owners on constitutional grounds c. by encouraging slaves and free black workers to refuse to work