The correct answer is A) The desire of antislavery forces to gain a new state for their cause.
The quick formation of an effective government in California was essential because of the desire of antislavery forces to gain a new state for their cause.
We are talking about the moment in history when California was accepted as part of the Union after the United States acquired a big portion of the former Mexican territory after winning the Mexican-American War
The admission of California as a free state threatened to upset the balance of power and violate the Missouri compromise.
In a time where northerners and southerners fought for power and control, California was admitted to the Union as a free state on September 9, 1850. More differences were generated between both sides regarding slavery. Let's not forget that the Missouri Compromise of 1820, had created legislation that admitted Missouri as a slave state but also admitted Main as a free state, in order to balance powers.
The Hitler ( of Nazi Party ) was mainly responsible for persecution of Jews. Historians stress the continuity between his ideas (against the Jews ) in early 1920s and the actual policies that he adopted in 1930s and early 1940s. Nazis were anti-Semitic because they regard Jews as threat to German Nation and responsible for defeat of Germany in WW1.
The moment Hitler became dictator of Germany, his supporters took it as a licence to persecute the Jews. We see in 1933, the Nazis ordered the boycott of Jewish shops. In 1935 Hitler propagated that there is a Jewish/Communist conspiracy to take control. The people fell to propaganda and began to loot, murder and persecute Jews. In the same year, the anti-Semitic campaign was legalized by the Nuremberg Laws (1935) which deprived Germans of their German citizenship and prohibit them to marry non-Jews. In 1938 we see Kristallnacht ( the Night Of Broken Glasses), a vicious attack on Jewish Synagogues and their property throughout Germany.
During the second World War the plight of the Jews further deteriorated. They were harassed in every possible way and were herded into concentration camps. Eventually Hitler came with a 'Final Solution' of Jewish problem i.e to wipe them off face of earth. At the end of World War Second more than 5 million Jews were murdered -most of them in gas chambers of Nazi extermination camps. This Holocaust , as came to be known, was the worst and most shocking of the many crimes against humanity committed by Nazi regime.
Why is Mary Eliza Mahoney important?
She is noted for becoming the first African American licensed nurse. Mary Eliza Mahoney was born in the spring of 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts. The exact date of her birth is unknown. Born to freed slaves who had moved to Boston from North Carolina, Mahoney learned from an early age the importance of racial equality.
