Author Question: The first state to pass an ordinance of secession was A) Georgia. B) South Carolina. C) ... (Read 80 times)

ahriuashd · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The Civil War began in

A) 1859.
B) 1860.
C) 1861.
D) 1862.
E) 1863.

Question 2

The word vernacular means

A) church language.
B) myth.
C) ribald song.
D) local language.
E) Latin.

Question 3

The Crittenden Compromise was intended to

A) fuel secession.
B) stop secession.
C) fuel abolitionism.
D) contest the results of the 1860 election.
E) punish the southern states that sought to secede.

Question 4

Which of the following statements does NOT apply to the revival of Roman law?

A) It was short-lived, as the orderliness of Roman law no longer appealed to Europeans.
B) It sparked creation of an elaborate, systematic compilation by Italian jurists of all previous legal commentaries known as the ordinary gloss.
C) It contributed to the decline of older, more barbaric forms of conflict resolution.
D) It changed how professors in law school taught their subject.
E) It replaced the old system of the ordeal by a rational process based upon the collection and analysis of evidence.

Question 5

The first state to pass an ordinance of secession was

A) Georgia.
B) South Carolina.
C) Mississippi.
D) North Carolina.
E) Florida.