Which of the following was an outcome of the territorial expansion in the 1840s?
A) It reinforced America's second two-party system.
B) It led to the freeing of African American slaves.
C) It led to sectional conflict and civil war.
D) It led to the division of the Whig party.
E) It united the Jacksonians and the Whigs.
C
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a. professors teaching in American colleges b. German Americans c. munitions manufacturers and employees d. Cajuns
With the discovery of gold near Sutter's Mill, California, in 1848, all of the following took place except
a. miners and adventurers from around the world came to California. b. most of the first wave of miners struck it rich in California with lucrative, easy, and plentiful discoveries of gold. c. many travelers to California faced illness and deadly fevers. d. the most reliable profits in the California gold rush were made by those who provided personal services, such as laundry services and clothing, for the miners. e. crime soared in California due to the large number of lawless men and virtueless women who arrived there.
All of the following were reasons the English were interested in colonization EXCEPT
a. English merchants were looking for new markets b. English landlords wanted to import their enclosure movement to the Americas to make money c. the English, convinced there was a Northwest Passage to Asia, wanted to establish posts to supply ships going and back through the Northwest Passage d. the English needed a base from which to attack Spanish treasure ships sailing back to Spain e. religious rivalry between Protestant England and Catholic Spain motivated England to establish a Protestant empire in the Americas
All art produced during the Renaissance was commissioned by __________
A) patrons B) popes C) princes D) nobles