1. what was one major effect of the kansas-nebraska act (1854)?
a. it created the same number of slave and free states
b. it closed the new mexico and utah territories to future slavery
c. it made slavery possible in territories previously closed to slavery
d. it showed the failure of popular sovereignty to resolve the issue of slavery

not to sure sdi, strategic defense initiative

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.

(b) britain had a much larger navy than the u.s.

(d) the u.s. had a small army compared to britain.

false the first governing document in the us history was the articles of federation