Which situation was the most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860?
a. Kansas and Nebraska joined the Union as free states.
b. A constitutional amendment was adopted to end slavery.
c. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state.
d. Several Southern States seceded from the Union.
Ans: d. Several Southern States seceded from the Union.
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Frederick Jackson Turner was
A) a painter of American western landscapes. B) a historian who put forth the thesis that the frontier was the key to the American character. C) the author of Ramona, a tale of doomed love set on a California Spanish-Mexican ranch. D) a one-armed veteran of the Civil War who charted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. E) the author of Roughing It, a mining novel.
The British government
A. sharply limited free speech when it implemented the Defense of the Realm Act. B. opposed the use of poison gas under any and all circumstances. C. developed a program that employed over 1.3 million children to help with the war effort.. D. brought William Gladstone back as Prime Minister when Lloyd George was defeated. E. failed to successfully use propaganda to enlist soldiers.
What did Newtown explain in his major work, Principia?
a. A technique for unclogging arteries b. The mathematical foundation for the universal law of gravitation c. The astronomical work of his predecessors d. How to use calculus e. The foundation of alchemical principles
All of the following are associated with Virginia Woolf except
A) why does history know so little about women? B) experiences of the ordinary people in history will be known by investigating the history of women. C) in the past, ordinary women had very little impact on history. D) women’s creative power is greatly different from men’s. E) education for women would emphasize the differences between men and women.