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PAC Final Exam- Lyons Quizzes & Ans.. False True or false? Postman believes the contemporary American culture is more like what Orwell described in 1984 False True or False? Postman (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) argues the Lincoln-Douglas debates were unsophisticated compared to modern political rhetoric True True or false? Postman argues (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) tv is not just an influence on our culture, but in some ways IS our culture. True True or False? Cultures based on ...

Continued Problems With Slavery Exam 2024. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by: - correct answer Stephen Douglas The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the: - correct answer Missouri Compromise Bitter confrontations over what issue earned the new Kansas territory the name "Bleeding Kansas"? - correct answer Slavery Preston Brooks attacked Senator ________ because he criticized Senators Douglas and Butler for their support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. - correct answer Charles Sumner A...

Amsco APUSH Chapter 13 latest update graded A+ free-soil movement; Free-Soil party A political party with the main purpose of stopping the expansion of slavery in western territories, arguing free men on free soil. conscience Whigs Anti-slavery whigs who opposed both the Texas annexation and the Mexican War on moral grounds. "barnburners" This was a group that was part of the Free Soil Party. They were called "barnbuners" because their defection threatened to destroy the Democratic party....

HIUS Final Exam Elaboration with 100% Correct Answers It could be argued that Eli Whitney indirectly "caused" the Civil War for all the following reasons EXCEPT: *Ans* b.The interchangeable parts principle made it easier for the south to acquire guns. One of the great ironies of American economic development is that one crucial factor to the growth of the market economy first unified, then divided, the nation's sections, and thus ultimately contributed to the North-South split. *A...

WGU Academy US History 1 Quiz 4 with Correct Answers 2024 The presidential election of 1844 - Answer -was won by a Democrat. In the 1820s and 1830s, the government of Mexico - Answer -moved from favoring to opposing American immigration into Texas. Between 1840 and 1860, most migrants traveling west on the overland trails - Answer -found the journey to be a very collective experience In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the United States, in part because - Answer -President Andrew Jac...

PAC Final Exam- Lyons Quizzes & Ans.. False True or false? Postman believes the contemporary American culture is more like what Orwell described in 1984 False True or False? Postman (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) argues the Lincoln-Douglas debates were unsophisticated compared to modern political rhetoric True True or false? Postman argues (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) tv is not just an influence on our culture, but in some ways IS our culture. True True or False? Cultures based on ...

Continued Problems with Slavery Question and answers already passed Continued Problems with Slavery The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by: - correct answer Stephen Douglas The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the: - correct answer Missouri Compromise Bitter confrontations over what issue earned the new Kansas territory the name "Bleeding Kansas"? - correct answer Slavery Preston Brooks attacked Senator ________ because he criticized Senators Douglas and Butler for their support of...

Which of the following most accurately describe Stephen Douglas' idea of popular sovereignty The status of slavery in a territory would be determined by the voters in the territory All of the following figured prominently in debates over the compromise of 1850 EXCEPT the Extensions of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska territories Which of the following was a major factor in the decline if the Whig party in the 1850s Know nothing movement A political effect of the fighting...

D 1. Which of the following most accurately describes Stephen Douglas' idea of popular sovereignty? (A) A section of western land would be given free to anyone who would homestead it for a certain number of years. (B) Only citizens of the United States would be permitted to settle territories acquired from Mexico. (C) Public lands in the new territories would be open on a first-come first-served basis. (D) The status of slavery in a territory would be determined by the voters in the ter...

Wilmot Proviso Amendment to said that slavery should be prohibited in all territories taken from Mexico. Never became law, but it provoked a passionate defense of slavery from Southerners. Missouri Compromise ME was admitted to the Union as a free state and MO as a slave state. Any part part of the LA territory north of 36 degrees, 30 inches (latitude) would be free territory. Free Soil Party Political party that opposed the spread of slavery into any of the recently acquired te...