The best estimate of the proportion of Patriots and Tories during the war for independence is that
A) Patriots were more numerous than Tories, but large numbers of Americans were indifferent.
B) Tories constituted less than one percent of the American population.
C) the population was about evenly divided between the two groups.
D) Tories were more numerous than Patriots, but large numbers of Americans were indifferent.
A
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At the Munich Conference of 1938,
a. the British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland. b. the British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler. c. the policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in Europe. d. eventual Nazi control of all of Czechoslovakia was avoided. e. Winston Churchill gave his support to the policy of appeasement.
When an NAACP-sponsored bill against lynching was introduced to Congress in 1919, it was
a. tabled without consideration. b. passed by the House but defeated by a senatorial filibuster. c. passed by both houses, but vetoed by President Wilson. d. passed by both houses and signed into law, but without an effective enforcement measure to make it anything more than an empty gesture.
After Anthony Burns was seized as a fugitive slave in 1854, President Pierce:
A) ordered him freed. B) sent troops to Boston to ensure his return to the South. C) denounced the Fugitive Slave Law as unconstitutional. D) refused to aid his owner in recovering him.