Some southerners threatened to secede over California's application for statehood during the middle of the 19th century because California would enter the US as a free state.
This means the state would not have slavery. Along with this, it would mean that there would be more representatives in Congress (aka the House of Representatives and the Senate) that are free states than slave states. This situation puts the southerners at risk, as the free states could make laws that would get rid of the institution of slavery. At this time, almost the entire south's economy depended on slavery.
1. The invasion of Japan could cause more US soldiers deaths
2. The use of the atomic bombs are used to scare the Soviet Union and the world of what they are able to do.
3. Japan was going to fight until the end
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Washington served as a general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolution, and later became the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He died on December 14, 1799, in Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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An private bill concerns individual people or places . Public bills usually deal with very basic or broad matters such as taxation and other general matters.
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A. Many cultures were combined together
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The term "melting pot" is a metaphor that is used to depict that a once heterogenous(more than one) society becomes more homogenous (one) with a common culture between them.
Therefore, the term "melting pot" used in this context means A. Many cultures were combined together because according to the passage, <u>"New York City had many different countries and cultures settled in it"</u>
