The election of 1856 was __________
A) two separate contests for the North and South
B) a return to power of the Whig Party
C) a victory for Fillmore
D) a setback for Democrats
Answer: A
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The efforts of the president of the Second Bank of the United States, Nicholas Biddle, to save the national bank in spite of President Jackson's vetoing of the bank rechartering bill in 1832
A) ultimately became successful when he rallied political support among bank proponents and patrons in Congress by making politically motivated loans and payments and easing up on credit. B) were fatally undermined when Jackson's treasury secretary, Roger Taney, deposited government income exclusively into state banks, shrinking the federal government's accounts in the national bank to the point at which it eventually was forced to close. C) were fatally undermined when it was discovered Biddle had personally embezzled $10,000 from the bank. D) were fatally undermined by Biddle's decision to tighten credit to fight inflation in the country.
The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of ____ in the territories
a. abolitionism b. free soil c. popular sovereignty d. slavery e. cotton growing
Which of the following biases most directly may make it more difficult for women in the workplace to support one another?
A. the maternal wall B. the tight rope bias C. the prove it again bias D. the tug-of-war bias
The __________ suggested the Terror was no longer justified.
A. improving war results B. food shortages in Paris C. decline of royalist resistance D. execution of the king