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Why was the Fugitive Slave Law so controversial? 

How did the abolitionist views of William Lloyd Garrison differ from those of earlier anti-slavery advocates?

Why was “Popular Sovereignty” viewed as a solution to the debate over slavery?

Classify the following variable, the height of trees in a forest, as either qualitative or quantitative. If it is quantitative, also determine if it is discrete or continuous.

Which of the following was a provision of the Compromise of 1850? 

How did abolitionists use the political system to fight slavery?

How did Southern opinion about slavery change during the 1830s?

________________ served as a battlefield surgeon during the Civil War and is the only woman in U.S. history to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

A university president wants to know whether seniors or freshmen use the campus library more. A sample of 200 seniors yielded 104 who regularly use the library, and a sample of 150 freshmen yielded 63 who regularly use the library.   Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the population proportion of seniors and freshmen who regularly use the campus library. Calculate (seniors – freshmen). (Input your interval as “(a, b)”, where a is the lower limit and b is the upper limit of the interval). (Round to 3 decimals). [a]

A fundamental issue underlying Missouri’s application for statehood concerned if: