What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Kansas-Nebraska territories?
A) More territory was granted to Indian reservation areas.
B) They were open to slavery via popular sovereignty.
C) Much of their southern territory was added to Texas.
D) The Missouri Compromise line was extended through them.
Answer: B
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A) economic boycott of English trade. B) demands for independence from the empire. C) intimidation and violence toward English agents in America. D) petitions to the King and to Parliament.
During the 1840s, advances in journalism included all of the following EXCEPT the
A. creation of a national cooperative news-gathering organization. B. dramatic growth of mass-circulation newspapers. C. invention of the steam cylinder rotary press. D. technological means to reproduce photographs in newsprint. E. introduction of the telegraph system.
What was the radio adaptation of War of the Worlds about?
A) World War I B) Spanish Civil War C) Class warfare D) An alien landing E) A war between Christian Europe and the Islamic Middle East
Solomon Northup was _______
A) born free in New York B) born a slave in Louisiana C) a white abolitionist D) an aspiring minister