What situation led to the Compromise of 1850?
A) ?California's request to join the Union as a free state
B) ?A disagreement over the route for a transcontinental railroad
C) ?A proposal to abolish the slave trade in the nation's capital
D) ?None of these
A
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The emancipation of the Russian serfs
a. left peasants under the authority of the village commune to ensure payment to the State for land. b. angered peasants because it only gave them six acres each, too little to support themselves. c. led to Russian participation in the Crimean War in order to divert peasant complaints. d. led to the 1867 Revolution. e. was reversed by Czar Nicholas II.
How did the spread of Western education affect colonial society?
a) it strengthened confidence in local gods and traditional practices b) it created a new elite who saw themselves as a modernizing vanguard in the regeneration of their societies c) it provokd a complete rejection of Western civilization and contributed to a cultural renaissance centered on "native" traditions d) it resulted in Europeans treating Asians and Africans as equal partners rather than as colonial subjects
Bacon's Rebellion occurred in
A) Pennsylvania. B) Massachusetts. C) South Carolina. D) Virginia.
John Kay invented which of the first great machines of the Industrial Revolution?
A) spinning mule B) cotton gin C) water frame D) flying shuttle E) water mule