Why were both the middle class and women so interested in reform causes at the turn of the century?
What will be an ideal response?
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What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following elements contributed to the cohesion of Puritan village life in New England?
A) substantial investments in bound labor B) absence of women and children C) cold and rainy weather D) predominance of families
These political cartoons depicting attacks on Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri (top) and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts (bottom) by Southern politicians indicate that events in Congress in the 1850s provide evidence of the __________
. A) fervent passions about slavery that made it difficult to find compromise B) Southern tendency toward brutality C) proclivity toward violence that made the Civil War inevitable D) weakness of antislavery Northerners
What did the Paxton Boys want?
A) that liquor not be banned in Georgia B) that slave codes be tightened in New York C) that the Indians be removed from Pennsylvania D) that the French be hanged in Quebec E) that John Peter Zenger be tried for treason