The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the concession to the South concerning
a. slavery in the District of Columbia.
b. slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories.
c. the revised, more stringent and coercive Fugitive Slave Law.
d. settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute.
e. continuation of the interstate slave trade.
c
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In most mining camps, between one-quarter and one-half of the population was __________.
a. foreign-born b. made up of women c. Native American d. from the South
The women workers of World War I played an important role in
A) serving as support troops behind the front line trenches. B) gaining equal industrial wages with men by the end of the war. C) achieving permanent job security in the once male-dominated workplace. D) all work areas except the textile industry. E) gaining women the right to vote immediately following the war.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided for all of the following except
a. money from land sales should be used to pay off the national debt. b. the land should be surveyed before its sale. c. the territory should be divided into townships six miles square. d. the sixteenth section should be sold to support education. e. slavery should be prohibited in the Old Northwest.
For the British, French intervention meant ________
A) a change in military strategy B) little change in their military strategy C) little challenge to their empire D) a new ally in the war effort E) fighting a two-front war, both in the colonies and in Europe