As written documents, the state constitutions functioned in all of the following ways except
a. to represent a fundamental law superior to ordinary legislation.
b. as contracts that defined the powers of government.
c. as an accumulation of laws, customs and precedents.
d. to guarantee individual liberties, sometimes through a bill of rights.
e. to transform the colonies into becoming new states.
c
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Women such as Dorothea Dix, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, and Clara Barton _______________.
A. advanced the professionalization of nursing during the Civil War B. gained the respect and admiration of the male-dominated medical profession for their work as nurses during the course of the Civil War C. received official recognition from President Lincoln for their service to the Union cause D. pioneered the way for the acceptance of women as physicians by being among the first of their gender to attend medical school
Map 19.1 shows the geographical distribution of which movement?
A) neoclassicism B) classicism C) romanticism D) Enlightenment
The male and female members of the _______ family pioneered the writing of dynastic history in the first century CE with the Hanshu (The History of the Former Han).
a. Ban. b. Han. c. Wu. d. Kong.
The American Party of the mid-1850s (the Know-Nothings) drew its primary support from those who feared
a. abolitionism. b. foreigners. c. possible civil war. d. uncontrolled industrialization.