Which issue did Abraham Lincoln very much want to avoid during the 1860 Republican convention?
A) popular sovereignty.
B) the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
C) the Fugitive Slave Act.
D) the Dred Scott decision.
Answer: C
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Northern Democrats leveled which of the following charges against the Republican government during the war years?
a. The Republicans are too concerned with abiding by the Constitution to prosecute the war successfully. b. The Republicans are not willing to extend government aid to northern business interests. c. Republican policies extend aid to farmers but ignore the plight of urban laborers. d. Republican policies are designed to flood the North with blacks.
Which of these explains why landless whites in the South had fewer economic opportunities than their counterparts in the North?
A) slavery B) immigration C) population growth D) federal policies
How did President Grant's administration respond to the anti-black violence, as shown in this image from Moore County, North Carolina, that was used by terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan?
A) It appointed Redeemer governments in the South to protect African Americans. B) It passed Enforcement Acts that outlawed "armed combinations" that deprived anyone's civil rights. C) It expanded the powers of the Freedmen's Bureau to protect blacks in the South. D) It sent larger numbers of federal troops to the Southern states to maintain law and order.
In the early twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire was referred to as the
a. "Sick Man of Europe." b. "Turkish Colossus." c. "Evil Empire." d. "Threat from the East." e. "Scarlet Knights."