What was the fugitive slave act?
What will be an ideal response?
It was a measure to benefit slaveholders but it actually hurt the south
Under this law a slave holder had only to point out alleged runaways to have them taken into custody
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According to research that some consider controversial, the first humans entered Texas __________
A. about 5,000 years ago and crossed the Pacific Ocean from South Asia B. around 10,000 years ago and came by boat from Europe C. nearly 2,000 years ago and came northward from their origins in South America D. between 12,000 and 40,000 years ago and had entered the North American continent through the land bridge called Beringia
The Adams–Onís Treaty (Transcontinental Treaty) of 1819 __________
A. finally settled the dispute between Spain and the United States over the Texas–Louisiana border B. transferred the ownership of Florida to the United States C. relinquished all U.S. claims to the ownership of Texas D. all of the above
The 1939 nonaggression pact between Germany and __________ was followed by the invasion of Poland
A) Italy B) the United States C) the Soviet Union D) Japan
In Norris v. Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all Americans have a right to __________
A) a lawyer in a criminal case B) free speech in court C) a jury of their peers D) join a union