Colonial immigrants laid the foundations for a new multicultural American national identity by
a. merging their religious traditions with those of Native Americans
b. intermarrying with people from other ethnic groups.
c. pushing their settlements from the East Coast into the backcountry.
d. importing increasing numbers of slaves.
e. None of these
Question 2
In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that
a. Senator Daniel Webster proposed a highly coercive fugitive slave law which was an acceptable concession to the South.
b. John C. Calhoun's compromise plan must be adopted to preserve the Union.
c. Christian legislators must obey God's moral law.
d. compromise must be achieved to preserve the Union.
e. African Americans should be granted their own territory.
Gary Alvis, The Painted Hills, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon.
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