Which colonial group did NOT favor the nonimportation movement?
a. Small merchants
b. Large merchants
c. Smugglers
d. Artisans
ANSWER: b
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A) were punctuated by heated political rhetoric including threats of disunion that was harsher than Congress had heard in a long time. B) did not reflect growing sectional divisions in the country between the commercial North and the agricultural South. C) were even more vitriolic than future debates about slavery in the 1840s and 1850s. D) were influenced by the many radical abolitionists in the North and the many defenders of slavery in the South who asserted the institution was a wholly positive good.
Which of the following was not an achievement of the New Deal?
a. the introduction of a mixed economy b. the preservation of American capitalism c. the elimination of unemployment before World War II d. the stabilization of American democracy
The United States entered the War of 1812 deeply divided along sectional lines. The sections that were most pro-war were the:
A) Middle States and South. B) West and South. C) Middle States and New England. D) West and New England.
Under the slave codes of the mainland British colonies, children born to slave mothers and free white fathers were __________
A) born free B) guaranteed the rights to vote and own property as adults C) allowed to purchase their freedom once they reached adulthood D) slaves themselves