Why did the Free-Soil party favor the Wilmot Proviso?
A) because the party was antislavery
B) because the party was in favor of territorial expansion
C) because the party favored high tariffs
D) because the party was anti-union
A
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In the context of constructing gender in interaction, identify a true statement about conversational interruption.
A. If a woman does interrupt another speaker, she risks social disapproval-especially if she interrupts a man. B. Women make a larger proportion of intrusive interruptions in unstructured and naturalistic settings than in the lab-settings that more closely resemble everyday interaction. C. A great deal of research shows that men use tactics such as interrupting and controlling the topic in conversation with other men more than they do with women. D. Studies show that women tend to take more than a fair share of talk time in task-oriented situations, such as committee meetings, classrooms, and problem-solving groups.
The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision argued that
A) race-based affirmative action programs in colleges and universities were constitutional. B) the federal government has no jurisdiction over private matters like racial discrimination. C) separation of the races is legal as long as each race has equal accommodations and facilities. D) separate facilities are inherently unequal.
In general, which faith was most compatible with absolute monarchy?
a. Lutheran b. Calvinist c. Anabaptist d. Catholic
Cooperationists believed that the slave states __________
a. should act as a unit rather than secede one at a time b. should remain in the Union c. should form a new union with northern states d. and the free states should simply find a way to get along e. should cooperate with Britain and France