The Crittenden Compromise was intended to

A) ?fuel secession.
B) ?stop secession.
C) ?fuel abolitionism.
D) contest the results of the 1860 election.
E) ?punish the southern states that sought to secede.


B

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The chief economic reform of the Qin dynasty was to

A) open new territories to China?s crowded population. B) rescue the impoverished feudal nobility. C) take land from the nobility and give ownership to the peasants. D) shift agriculture to rice cultivation. E) implement a tax on the nobility.

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In 1758 ________ took over British leadership of the French and Indian War, pouring soldiers and money into North America

A) King George II B) Charles Townshend C) Edmund Burke D) William Pitt

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Why did Massachusetts and Connecticut feel the need to pass sumptuary laws?

A) They weren't comfortable with the idea that lower-class people were taking on the trappings of upper classes. B) They weren't comfortable with the idea that upper class people were "slumming" and taking on the trappings of lower classes. C) They wanted to abolish all signs of the British social class system. D) They wanted to establish a minimum dress code for the lower classes. E) They wanted to establish a minimum dress code for all colonial classes.

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Which of the following was NOT a typical inducement for Europeans to emigrate abroad in the nineteenth century?

A) famine in Ireland B) difficult political, social, and economic circumstances in Europe generally C) unemployment in Britain D) anti-Semitism in Russia E) economic opportunities in the United States

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