What were the key components of the Compromise of 1850?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. California entered the Union as a free state.
2. New Mexico and Utah decided the status of slavery on the basis of a popular vote.
3. The federal government abolished the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
4. A new and stronger Fugitive Slave Law was put in place.
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The Spanish had to worry about which of the following in the Caribbean?
A) Revolts by Amerindians. B) Piracy by other Europeans. C) Slave revolts aboard Spanish ships. D) The Catholic Church condemning their actions.
Why and how did life change for upper- and middle-class blacks in the late 1980s? What problems did many poor blacks continue to face?
What will be an ideal response?
The majority of Greeks during the Hellenic Period belonged to which class of people?
A) wealthy and politically influential citizens B) prosperous merchants C) skilled artisans D) professional warriors E) common peasants
The French government whose ouster in 1848 sparked revolutions throughout Europe was run by
a. the ultras who aimed to bring back the Old Regime. b. moderate monarchists who supported Louis XVIII's Charter. c. the wealthy bourgeoisie and some aristocrats. d. neo-Jacobins who worked towards a restoration of the Republic. e. socialists who tried to make worker cooperative the basis of a new economic order.