Why were Republicans able to gain the presidency in the election of 1860?
A) The Republicans scored a decisive win in the North.
B) The Republicans won the support of white Southerners who did not own slaves.
C) The Republicans offered the potential for sectional harmony.
D) The Republicans compromised on the issue of slavery.
E) The Republicans successfully pitted the East against the West.
A
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A) the Second National Bank B) hunting rights on federal land C) removal of Indians from the South D) cheap land for frontier farmers
What was the driving impetus for the change in Hinduism that established a guide for moral and ethical conduct?
A) the Bhagavad-Gita B) the Vedas C) the Mahabharata D) the Upanishads E) the Rigveda
The response of Tecumseh and Tenskatawa to white expansion would best be described as:
A) voluntary assimilation. B) pan-Indian resistance. C) accepting the reservation system. D) acknowledging whites legal rights to western land.
The goal of the Continental System was to
a. create a European hegemony. b. establish a more democratic educational system in France. c. make Napoleon the Holy Roman Emperor. d. defeat Britain by destroying its economy. e. sell the Louisiana area to the United States.