What argument did William Paterson make in favor of his New Jersey Plan?
a. A bicameral legislature was superior to a unicameral legislature.
b. His plan would have more appeal to the American people than the Virginia Plan would.
c. It resolved the issue of slavery in a way that satisfied both northerners and southerners.
d. His plan was backed by both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
b. His plan would have more appeal to the American people than the Virginia Plan would.
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A) individual liberty; ritualistic B) individual liberty: pietistic C) morality: pietistic D) morality; ritualistic
Which of the following made crimes against humanity a new category in international law?
A) Wannsee Conference B) Nuremberg trials C) Munich Conference D) Operation Bagration
President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression could be ended partly by
a. providing direct assistance to American citizens. b. providing direct and indirect assistance to businesses and banks. c. improving the productive capacity of the industrial system. d. temporarily suspending the American tradition of rugged individualism. e. lending federal funds to labor organizations and mutual-aid societies.
The Wilmot Proviso, if it had passed, would have __________
A) allowed slavery in any area of the United States B) gained Canada from the British C) prohibited slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico D) made Mexicans and American Indian slaves alongside blacks, in the territory acquired from Mexico