In light of future evidence, it seems apparent that in the Compromise of 1850 the South made a tactical blunder by
a. allowing a ban on the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
b. demanding a strong fugitive slave law.
c. not insisting on federal protection of slavery in the territories.
d. allowing the admission of California as a free state.
e. allowing popular sovereignty in Nebraska territory.
b
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The Pequot War
A) found the Mohegans and the Naragansetts in alliance with the English settlers against the Pequots in New England. B) horrified the Narragansetts because of the mass annihilation practices of the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay. C) was precipitated by a Pequot Indian attack on a western Massachusetts Bay town. D) arose partly because the Massachusetts Bay Puritans never had a trading relationship with the Pequots of the Connecticut River Valley.
Which statement best describes one advantage the Confederacy had over the Union in the U.S. Civil War?
Select one: a. The Confederacy's soldiers were more accustomed to using firearms. b. The Confederacy's soldiers had more experience and better training. c. The Confederacy's soldiers were better equipped for battle.
Albert Einstein's theories about space and time contradicted whose earlier theories?
a. Wilhelm Rontgen b. Galileo Galilei c. Svante Arrhenius d. Isaac Newton e. Max Planck
In the seventeenth century, France had colonies in all of the following areas except ______________.
A. the Caribbean B. Canada C. the East Indies D. the North American heartland E. New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico