According to Stephen Douglas, even if a territory authorized slavery:
a. Congress could prohibit it after the territory became a state
b. the people could end slavery by refusing to pass laws to protect it
c. slavery was immoral and ought to be outlawed in new territories
d. it was unconstitutional
B
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What group accounted for most of the population growth in the British West Indies during the eighteenth century?
a. Africans b. Asians c. British Europeans d. Spanish Europeans
Cotton became important to the prosperity of the entire nation because
a. about three-fourths of the southern cotton crop was sold to New England textile mills. b. western merchants handled the shipping of southern cotton. c. it generated about half of the United States' export earnings after 1840. d. northern farmers profited from selling their foodstuffs to feed southern slaves. e. cotton futures had come to dominate investment and trading activity.
The division in America revealed the 2000 presidential election was between ________
A) the urban coastal states that voted for Bush and rural southern states that voted for Gore B) the poor who voted for Bush and the middle class who voted for Gore C) the rich who voted for Gore and the poor who voted for Bush D) the liberals who voted for Bush and the conservatives who voted for Gore E) people in suburbia who voted for Bush and rural Americans who voted for Gore