Elizabeth Freeman was the central figure in a Massachusetts court case in which a jury ruled that __________
A) the Fugitive Slave Act was unconstitutional
B) slavery was unconstitutional under state law
C) free blacks possessed no citizenship rights
D) free blacks could not be prevented from voting
Answer: B
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a. Hawaii was annexed by the United States as a key territory in the Pacific. b. America granted the Philippines its independence. c. many anti-imperialists admitted that their opposition to the Spanish-American War had been a mistake. d. Filipinos were granted American citizenship. e. they did so without Filipino assistance.
The pseudoscience of eugenics:
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A) True B) False
The Fascist regime in Italy did all of the following except
a. attack the Vatican. b. eliminate non-Fascists from the cabinet. c. dissolve opposition parties. d. smash the independent trade unions. e. suppress opposition newspapers.