Jay’s Treaty __________.
a. failed to win a British commitment to abandon frontier posts
b. opened New Orleans to U.S. commerce
c. annoyed southern slave owners
d. humiliated the French
c. annoyed southern slave owners
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In the presidential election of 1948, which candidate did most African Americans support?
a) Harry Truman b) Thomas Dewey c) Dwight D. Eisenhower d) Earl Warren
The first transatlantic steamship line ran in what decade?
A) 1770s B) 1790s C) 1810s D) 1830s
Which of the following would best explain why the South supported Missouri's admission into the Union as a slave state?
a. The South wanted to use Maine to address the imbalance of free and slave states. b. The South was by then dwarfed by the North in terms of territory. c. Missouri was south of the line traditionally dividing slave from free states. d. It was afraid of a greater majority of northerners in the House of Representatives.