Discuss the sectional disputes that led to the Compromise of 1850. How was the compromise reached? What were its provisions? What were its results?
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What factor exacerbated East Germany's troubled postwar economic situation?
A) American refusal to provide funds under the Marshall Plan. B) The removal of everything possible by the Soviet Union. C) The fact that East Germany had no outside support at all. D) The reality that most highly educated people lived in West Germany. E) The fact that its people were too demoralized by Soviet occupation to work.
Kevin Phillips, in his study The Emerging Republican Majority concluded all of the following EXCEPT
A) the Vietnam War had a direct impact on shaping voter opinions. B) a political insurgency had emerged in the West and South, and among the Irish in New York City and in the suburbs, where many of the white middle-class resided. C) voters had become disillusioned with the massive expansion of government through the Great Society. D) many middle-class white voters were reacting negatively to the Civil Rights Movement.
The term humanism refers to the
A) values in human excellence embodied in the Greco-Roman world and the principles of that process. B) embracing of ancient ideals as taught by Aristotle and Plato. C) study of humans in their most virtuous form. D) process of seeking ancient knowledge. E) study of Latin and Greek works.