"Lame-duck" President James Buchanan asserted following the presidential election of 1860 that
a. southern states had a legal right to secede from the Union.
b. southern states did not have any legitimate political or economic grievances against the northern states.
c. the election of 1860 was a fraud.
d. southern states had no choice but to secede from the Union.
e. southern states could not legally secede under the Constitution, but was unable to find the presidential authority under the Constitution to use American armed forces to prevent the seven southern states that had voted for secession from doing so.
e
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The new prime minister of Great Britain immediately after World War II, Clement Atlee,
a. included two Communist members in his cabinet. b. was a leftist revolutionary, whom the king removed two months after he took office. c. favored abolition of all private banks in the country. d. established the welfare state in Britain. e. blocked parliamentary consideration of a National Health Insurance Act.
The United States acquired free navigation of the Mississippi River, the rights of deposit at New Orleans, and the large disputed territory north of Florida in
a. the Treaty of Greenville. b. Jay's Treaty. c. the Convention of 1800. d. the Pinckney Treaty. e. the Treaty of Paris.
Map 5-2 best illustrates the
A) limited urbanization of the United States. B) the fate of Native Americans in the United States. C) failure to settle western lands. D) population distribution in the United States.
In 1975, Secretary of State Kissinger persuaded Israel and Egypt to accept which of the following?
a. Egyptian withdrawal from the Golan Heights and an end to the building of Israeli settlements in occupiedlands b. Egyptian withdrawal from Jerusalem and Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank c. Egyptian recognition of Israel's existence as a nation and an end to hostilities d. A United Nations peacekeeping force in the Sinai