The Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford hastened the Civil War because
a. it ruled that slavery must be outlawed in every U.S. state and territory.
b. it ruled that slavery must remain legal everywhere it had been legal before 1850.
c. it ruled that African Americans could never be citizens, and that Congress could not ban slavery in U.S. territories.
d. it ruled slavery must be abolished within twenty-five years.
c. it ruled that African Americans could never be citizens, and that Congress could not ban slavery in U.S. territories.
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Within-subjects designs
A) increase variance due to participant differences. B) eliminate variance due to participant differences. C) increase variance due to the experimental manipulation. D) decrease variance due to the experimental manipulation.
Laws based on the assumption that certain government programs should periodically terminate in order to be evaluated and voted upon are called
a. Sunrise laws. b. Sunset laws. c. Sunshine laws. b. Sundown laws.
An important part of President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" was
A) Social Security. B) the Affordable Care Act. C) the Clean Water Act. D) the Economic Opportunity Act. E) the Works Progress Act.
Citizens using text messages, Twitter, and Facebook to orchestrate revolutions is an example of technology being used to cross what type of borders?
a. geographic borders b. social borders c. political borders E. economic borders