Prompt: Evaluate the relative importance of political compromise in reducing sectional tension
in the period 1820-1861 DBQ

Look at the painting the lictors bring to brutus the bodies of his sons by jacques-louis david (1789). the most likely message this painting sends to french citizens is that one must be prepared to sacrifice their own children to preserve france. loyalty to one’s country stops short of sacrificing one’s own children. brutality is an integral part of revolution and the reign of terror. no one is immune to death, not even the leaders of the revolution.

After the success of the sputnik launch, the united states feared that they would never be able to launch their own satellite, the ussr had used technology developed by the united states, the soviets had superior nuclear capabilities, that any future us satellites would not be as successful.

An example of a policy to buttress one's position would be: the spanish granting large tracts of land in texas to american settlers the missouri compromise stephen austin settling in missouri