This statement expresses the main idea in which of the following documents?: “. . . all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
A) Gettysburg Address
B) Emancipation Proclamation
C) the “Cornerstone Speech”
D) the Declaration of Independence
Answer: B
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According to Frederick Jackson Turner, American character and culture were primarily influenced by
a. the Spanish and the French traditions. b. the development of civilized cities and towns. c. the spread of the plantation system. d. the existence of the frontier and the westward movement. e. war.
Which of the following describes the policy adopted during the 1820s and 1830s as a permanent solution to the Native American problem?:
a) the removal of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi. b) the payment of Native Americans to migrate to Canada. c) the establishment of reservations in various sections of the country. d) the forced migration of Native Americans to territories owned by Mexico. e) the assimilation of Native Americans by breaking up tribes and granting American citizenship to individual members.
How many states did not have to draft new constitutions, since they already had republican governments as part of their colonial charters?
A) none B) one C) two D) three E) four
The most important argument that southern defenders of slavery used against northern abolitionists was
A) Africans willingly accepted slavery. B) the North was poor because there was no slavery in that region. C) slave life was better than the lives of northern industrial workers. D) slavery was not that widespread in the South.