Which of the following statements about the "Missouri Compromise" is not accurate?
A) Maine was admitted as a free state
B) Missouri was admitted as a slave state
C) Slavery was prohibited in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36? 30'
D) Slavery in the Upper South was to be phased out by 1853.
E) The controversy signaled that the main source of sectional conflict in future decades would be the slavery issue
D
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a) Pennsylvania b) Massachusetts c) Georgia d) New York
Which statement most accurately reflects the situation facing organized labor during World War I?
A) ?? Wartime pressures brought about a record number of strikes. B) ?? Unions died out as workers embraced a new spirit of cooperation, communalism, and patriotism. C) ?? In an effort to ensure ideological conformity and to prevent dissent, the War Labor Board generally pursued anti-labor policies. D) ?? Union membership nearly doubled during the war. E) ?? Because of the booming wartime economy and a shortage of male workers, most workers were required to work twelve-hour days.
The "Battle" of Wounded Knee
a. was the worst defeat in the history of the U.S. Army. b. was a shoot out between sheep herders and cattlemen in Wyoming. c. revitalized Plains Indian culture. d. symbolized the death of the Plains Indians' way of life. e. defeated the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
All of the following underlay anti-immigrant feelings in the 1800s EXCEPT
a. immigrants would hold back progress b. immigrants would take jobs away from the native-born c. immigrants would weaken the nation because they tended to live in their own communities d. many immigrants were Roman Catholic rather than Protestant e. immigrants might be revolutionaries fleeing the Europe after the unsuccessful revolutions of 1830 and 1848