Incidents involving Anthony Burns and Thomas Sims demonstrated that the federal government:
A) had no desire to offend northern abolitionists.
B) would vigorously enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
C) would only enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in the South.
D) would use the Fugitive Slave Law to recover blacks who fled to Canada.
Answer: B
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Use the political cartoon below to answer the question that follow: Which of the following was most likely a long-term response to the event?
a. The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
b. An economic stimulus resulting from increased military production.
c. Greater advocacy of the policy of mutual assured destruction.
d. An urgency to ratify international treaties limiting the arms race.
Which of the following was true of the election of 1800?
a. The Republicans favored John Quincy Adams. b. John Adams refused to step down after he lost. c. The Federalists were deeply divided. d. Jefferson and John Adams tied in the electoral college.
How did President Johnson respond to Congressional approval of the Fourteenth Amendment?
A) He urged states not to ratify it. B) He supported it in public, but opposed it in private. C) He did everything he could to ensure its ratification. D) He declared it unconstitutional.
The immensely popular "sentimental writing" and "domestic fiction" of the first part of the nineteenth century was largely written by ________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word