Question 1
Conscience Whigs joined the Free-Soil Party during the 1848 election because they __________.
A) refused to support a slaveholder as their party's candidate
B) favored the moderate position of only opposing the extension of slavery into the West
C) disagreed with the Whigs' view that their candidate was a war hero
D) supported Texas as a slave state
Question 2
By 1960, what significant historic population threshold had the nation crossed?
A) There were more non-Christian rather than Christian members living in the United States.
B) There were more minorities than white Americans.
C) More Americans were living in urban areas rather than rural areas for the first time.
D) There were more middle class than working-class Americans.
Question 3
How does this mural from the eighteenth-century home of Captain Archibald Macpheadris represent an artistic style that is more European than American Indian?
A) The Indian chiefs are posing with their hands on their hips, a style common to European
aristocrats.
B) Weapons typical in European warfare like a tomahawk are featured in the mural.
C) Lighter European skin tones rather than darker American Indian skin tones are used to depict
the Indian chiefs.
D) The Indian chiefs are in powdered wigs that were commonly worn by wealthy Europeans.
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