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Unit Test 2

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What was one effect of settlers bringing herds of sheep and cattle to the West in the mid-1800s?
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Native grasses were destroyed
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What was the greatest challenge cities faced as a result of rapid industrialization in the 1800s?
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providing enough city services to protect and support new citizens
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Which of the following challenges did pioneers typically face on the Santa Fe Trail in the mid-1800s?
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desert sand that slowed wagons to a crawl
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Which of the following best describes the states' rights debate of the early and mid-1800s?
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a conflict between the ideas of federalism and sectionalism
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Which of the following describes states' rights?
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the idea that states have powers separate from the federal government
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How did Sam Houston persuade the United States to annex Texas?
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by threatening to ask Britain for help if the US refused
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Which statement best explains how the idea of Manifest Destiny lead to the Mexican-American War?
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Mexico was a barrier to achieving what many believed was America's destiny to expand to the Pacific.
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In the 1800s, the Know-Nothing Party worked to accomplish which of the following?
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restriction on immigration
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Why was Dred Scott important?
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He was a slave who argued he was free.
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What is an example of how the abolitionist movement began to grow in the 1830s? Check all that apply.
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Anti-slavery publications were produced. The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded. Petitions demanded that Congress end slavery.
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Many Mexicans who lived on land that was part of the Mexican Cession
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became US citizens and added to the area's population.
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How did technological innovations in textile mills affect the practice of using enslaved workers?
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Faster and cheaper production of cloth raised demand for cotton plants, which increased the need for enslaved workers.
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What describes the economy of the North in the antebellum era?
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It was primarily industrial.
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The march of Cherokee resistors to the West is known as
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the Trail of Tears.
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raised the price of manufactured goods and hurt trade with Britain.
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raised the price of manufactured goods and hurt trade with Britain.
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Which of the following best describes a plantation in the 1800s?
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a family-owned agricultural estate, usually in the South
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Which politician most strongly supported the idea of nullification?
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John C. Calhoun
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Which of the following statements best describes the Wilderness Road in the late 1700s?
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It was a trail that Americans used when traveling west to settle the frontier.
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The introduction of the cotton gin meant that enslaved workers on Southern plantations no longer had to
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pick cotton seeds
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In the mid-1800s, one result of Manifest Destiny was that
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the traditional American Indian way of life was threatened.
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White Southerners who defended slavery were called
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apologists