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In order to achieve some manner of meaningful self-knowledge Gramsci contends that we must know ourselves as products of the historical process to date which has deposited in us an infinity of traces without leaving an inventory. By this he means our core beliefs are_________________________________________

In discussing the art of reading, Noam Chomsky _____________. Select all answers that apply.

The first shots fired in the Civil War occurred in April of 1861 at Ft. Sumter, SC. 

Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways.

Site where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865

… and his Southern allies have deliberately adopted the monstrous  creed that any man who dares to utter sentiments which they deem wrong or unjust shall be brutally assailed,” stated a prominent state journal in response to what event? 

This served as a justification for mid-nineteenth-century expansionism in the United States, it will also arguably become the forefather of American Imperialism.

This battle gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River and split the South in two parts. 

Overall abolitionists in the Northern States were largely unpopular and thought to be radicals in spite of the ‘peculiar institution’ known as slavery. 

Introduced by Stephen Douglas in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad