Before his assault on Harpers Ferry in 1859, John Brown had gained notoriety by
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publishing an anti-slavery journal that savagely attacked the South.
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The Gadsden Purchase was
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a small strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico purchased from Mexico for a railroad line.
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Which of the following was not an opinion on slavery held by free soil supporters?
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Free-soilers believed that American slavery had natural geographic limits beyond which it would not spread.
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Congressman Preston Brooks
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beat Charles Sumner with a cane.
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Why did Abraham Lincoln win the 1860 presidential election?
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He took advantage of the split in the Democratic Party and won a plurality of the vote.
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What did the Know-Nothing Party argue?
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Immigration should be strictly limited.
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Which of the following candidates ran as Democrats in the 1860 election?
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John Breckinridge and Stephen Douglas.
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Which of the following was not one of the issues leading to the Compromise of 1850?
1) Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
2) The Dred Scott ruling
3) The policy regarding slavery in the territories
4) The balance between slave states and free states
5) The sale of slaves in the District of Columbia
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2) The Dred Scott ruling.
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Which territory had two competing governments in the 1850s?
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Kansas
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Many northern states passed personal-liberty laws in order to
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minimize the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.
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Why did "Bleeding Kansas" occur?
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*Proslavery forces stole the election for the state legislature.
*Antislavery forces took up "Beecher's Bibles."
*John Brown led a brutal murder of five proslavery men.
*The nation's precarious sectional balance was in danger.
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In the 1860 presidential election, the Republican party adopted an economic program that included all of the following features except
1) Federal aid for internal improvements
2) A protective tariff.
3) Free homesteads for settlers in the west.
4) a national income tax.
5) providing land to immigrants who were not yet citizens.
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4) a national income tax.
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The Lecompton Constitution
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protected the property rights of Kansas slaveholders and provided for a referendum on the admission of more slaves.
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What was the significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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It pushed many waverers to an aggressive antislavery stance.
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The principle of popular sovereignty mean that
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each territory would decide for itself whether to allow slavery or not.
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As a result of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry,
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Southern slaveholders were incensed.
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Which of the following is not true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
1) It rendered the terms of the Compromise of 1850 void.
2) It superseded the Missouri Compromise.
3) It split the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska.
4) It applied the principle of popular sovereignty to Nebraska and Kansas.
5) It was sponsored by Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.
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1) It rendered the terms of the Compromise of 1850 void.
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Which of the following was a provision of the Fugitive Slave Act?
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Alleged fugitive slaves had no right to a jury trial.
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What was the reaction of many northerners to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?
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Although some Northerners saw the act as the price of saving the Union, many more saw it as a vile monument of infamy and therefore took up the abolition cause.
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What was the final blow to the Whig party?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Who won the 1856 presidential election?
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James Buchanan
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The Ostend Manifesto called for the United States to acquire
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Cuba.
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In the 1850s, the main issue that unified the otherwise diverse elements of the new Republican party was
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"Bleeding Kansas"
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The Whig party began to disintegrate and decline in the 1850s because they
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an internal, north-south split over the slavery issue.
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Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 antagonized the North the most?
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The strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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