The Connecticut or "Great Compromise" of the Constitutional Convention worked out an acceptable scheme for
a. Regulating interstate commerce
b. Collecting national import taxes
c. Apportioning Congressional representation among the states
d. Electing the president and vice president
e. Limiting Congress's power to interfere with the importation of slaves
Answer: c. Apportioning Congressional representation among the states
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A. droughts and resulting crop failures B. the development and expansion of the new market economy C. government intervention in the economy D. the nation's overdependence on foreign trade
In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Indians on the Great Plains
A) accepted their removal to reservations without resistance. B) eagerly abandoned their nomadic ways for the sedentary ways of the whites. C) often fiercely resisted white settlement in the area. D) generally believed that the U.S. government had dealt fairly with them.
The annual flooding of the Nile River
a. left silt deposits that enriched Egyptian soil and made crops plentiful. b. was an unwanted event that occurred suddenly and generally without warning. c. did not require an organized irrigation system. d. produced many large urban centers that served as havens from the raging waters. e. inhibited the evolution of civilization in ancient Egypt.
The new outlook during the Renaissance applied almost exclusively to all the following except
a. princes. b. courtiers. c. talented artists. d. wealthy urban families. e. peasants.