As a result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
a. northern states threatened to hold special state conventions for the purpose of declaring the actunconstitutional and thus null and void
b. a coalition of northern Democrats withdrew from the Democratic party and formed the American Party.
c. the Whig Party broke into northern and southern wings and was no longer able to operate as a national party.
d. southerners became more convinced than ever that Congress had become the puppet of antislaveryadvocates.
c
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Aboriginal society remained “stateless”, in the sense of possessing no administrative institutions, largely because:
a. The shamans recognized no presence of “state” in their tribe's Dreamtime. b. No agriculture meant that there was no agricultural surplus available to promote trade and a further stratification of society. c. Elders in positions of authority were trained in the effective wielding of weapons, and the general populace willingly surrendered power to them, rendering an enforcement mechanism unnecessary. d. Rapidly moving glaciers had destroyed their governmental buildings, and it was thought unwise to rebuild them and drawn down the gods' anger.
Which of the following was true of cotton cultivation?
a. It was carried out exclusively by male slaves. b. It could be completed in an eight-hour workday. c. It required year-round labor. d. It was the harshest form of slave labor.
Imagine yourself a middle-class resident of Rochester, New York. What might you have witnessed and felt?
What will be an ideal response?
Which U.S. Supreme Court decision(s) did the Fourteenth Amendment reverse?
(A) The Slaughterhouse Cases (B) The Civil Rights Cases (C) Dred Scott v. Sanford (D) United States v. Cruikshank