The correct answer for number 42 is B) Compromise of 1850
This important Compromise settled the issue of whether or not slavery was going to exist in the new territories the United States gained after the Mexican American War. Essentially, this law states that Utah and New Mexico will have the citizens vote on whether or not slavery will exist.
The correct answer for number 43 is D) Benjamin Franklin
Franklin was known for developing the "Join or Die" flag while American colonists were engaged in the French and Indian War.
The correct answer for number 44 is D) To desegregate buses involved in interstate travel.
Freedom riders were white and black men and women who purposely broke the segregation laws on buses that were traveling across multiple states. The goal in this was to show how wrong these segregation laws were.
The correct answer to number 46 is D) The representation of states in Congress.
The Great Compromise made it so that each state would have 2 Senators regardless of their population. Along with this, the Great Compromise also made it so that the number of representatives a state has in the House of Representatives would be based on their population. The 3/5ths Compromise deals with how to count slaves in terms of the population. In this compromise, every 5 slaves while count as 3 people towards a states population.
