What part of the Compromise of 1850 increased sectional controversy and conflict during the 1850s?
A. The admission of California as a free state
B. The settlement of the Texas boundary question
C. The ending of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
D. The Fugitive Slave Act
Answer: D
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a. naval battles. b. battles between guerrilla armies in jungles. c. bombing raids on each other's territory. d. fought in China.
Which of the following is true about contemporary Latino migration patterns?
A) Women left behind assume new responsibilities B) Migrants account for approximately 12% of the world population C) It affects primarily the social lives of the migrants rather than the families left behind D) Women left behind assume new responsibilities and migrants account for approximately 12% of the world population E) Women left behind assume new responsibilities and it affects primarily the social lives of the migrants rather than the families left behind
The life of Anthony Johnson, an African slave who first arrived in Virginia in 1621, illustrated that
A) from the beginning, black immigrants faced a life of degradation and bondage. B) living conditions for colonial blacks steadily improved through the seventeenth century. C) racial boundaries were not firmly marked in the early seventeenth century. D) colonial blacks could gain their freedom by working industriously on the land.
Why did some samurai and daimyo ally with Emperor Go-Daigo in the 1330s?
A) to place their own shogun in power B) to support the emperor against the Hojo regents C) to establish a council-style government D) to reassert their power as imperial regents