Write your definition of compromise. Then use this definition to argue that popular sovereignty was or was not a reasonable compromise among the different and competing stakeholders in America during the 1850s on the issue of expanding slavery into the nation's territories. Use specific examples of the strengths or weaknesses of popular sovereignty to support your argument.

What will be an ideal response?


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The term ____ is used for an unskilled person who has no training and is not enrolled in a training program for a specific trade.

A. apprentice B. helper C. journeyman D. labor craftsman

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Estimate the re-aeration constant assuming the mean depth of the river is 1.5 meters and the mean velocity is 0.1 m/s.

The Ganges River, shown in Figure 4.66, has an annual average flow rate of 12,105 m3/s. The average temperature of the Ganges River was reported to be 24.6ºC. The Ganges has become contaminated with raw sewerage and industrial waste so that the dissolved oxygen in the river upstream of sewerage discharges is 4.6 mg/L. Suppose that the raw sewerage that is untreated flows into the Ganges at a rate of 460 m3/s, the temperature is 25ºC, and the dissolved oxygen in the sewerage stream is completely depleted (i.e. DO = 0). How would you develop a plan for improving water quality in the Ganges River? What will be an ideal response?

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In a wye-connected alternator, the line voltage is equal to ____ times the phase voltage.

A. 1.0 B. 1.25 C. 1.73 D. 2.0

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Traditionally the first fixed date of ancient Greece is 776 BCE, when

a. the Iliad was first written down in the Athenian polis. b. the funeral games to honor the dead were held in Greece. c. a pan-Hellenic festival was convened at Olympia. d. the first temples as sites of worship were dedicated to the Olympian gods.

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