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In early 1789, the new Congress gathered in the national capital which was…
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New York City
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Washington’s Secretary of State was…
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Thomas Jefferson
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The first Supreme Court
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Was led by chief justice John Jay
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In regards to religion, the constitution…
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Prevents congress from establishing an official religion
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In regard to state debts, Hamilton proposed that..
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The federal government take them over
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The national bank proposed by Hamilton..
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Would provide a stable national currency
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Madison and Jefferson objected to the national bank primarily because…
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They believed in a strict interpretation of the constitution
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The emergence of political parties…
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Reflected the basic philosophical differences between Jefferson and Hamilton
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The party led by Madison and Jefferson that opposed Hamilton was called…
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Democratic republicans
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By 1790, the Indians…
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Remained a powerful threat to western settlement
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When Britain and France went to war in 1793, the US ….
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expressed neutrality, warning Americans not to aid either side
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Edmond Genet
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encouraged Americans to attack Spanish territory on the frontier
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By the mid 1790’s, Americans became incensed with the British over…
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The British seizure of American merchant vessels
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As a result of Jay’s treaty…
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The British agreed to evacuate their northwest posts by 1796
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The treaty of Greenville was an agreement between the US and…
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The Indians on the northwest frontier
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Opposition to Hamilton’s excise tax on whiskey was strongest among…
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Frontier farmers
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Pinckney’s Treaty resulted in…
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American trade access to Spanish New Orleans
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In regard to land policy, Hamilton and the Federalists…
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Favored high land prices that would slow western settlement
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Daniel Boone led settlers into…
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Kentucky
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the 1796 Presidential election was…
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The nations first partisan election
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Under President Adams, a war between US and France was…
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An undeclared naval conflict
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Between 1800 and 1840, the nations most dramatic population expansion occurred
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West of the appalachians
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Jefferson’s inauguration was notable for..
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Being the first in Washington D.C.
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President Jefferson’s cabinet…
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Included Madison as secretary of state
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In the case of Marbury vs. Madison, the Supreme Court...
Declared a federal law unconstitutional
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The Louisiana Purchase was a problem for Jefferson because...
He believed that the Constitution did not give authority to acquire new land
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To President Jefferson, one major incentive to purchase Louisiana was to...
Secure American access to the Mississippi River
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Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to...
Explore and map well beyond the Mississippi
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Jefferson's embargo policy...
Sought to stop all American exports
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President Madison's attempts to deal with British and French interference with American trade...
led to war with the British
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The greatest support for the declaration of war in 1812 came from...
the agricultural regions from Pennsylvania southward and westward
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Western settlers and politicians believed war with Britain might enable...
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As the war of 1812 started, one strength of the US was...
a small, but capable navy
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The naval battle on Lake Erie resulted in...
Perry's glorious victory
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At Horse Shoe Bend, Andrew Jackson won a smashing victory over...
The creeks
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The British invasion of the mid atlantic coast in 1814 resulted in...
the capture and burning of Washington D.C.
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The British attack on Baltimore's Fort Mchenry
resulted in a bombardment that did not force the fort's to surrender
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The British defeat at New Orleans is best explained by...
Their attack upon a strong defensive position
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The Treaty of Ghent
Ended the war of 1812
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The Hartford Convention illustrated deep opposition to the war in...
New England
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Following the expiration of the first bank of the US in 1811, state banks
issued an excess of paper money
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Who opposed the national bank in 1816
Dan Webster
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John C. Calhoun accepted the tariff of 1816 because he
expected the South would become a manufacturing center
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The idea of federal support for internal improvements
was represented by the construction of the national road
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The chief advocate for the program for economic development called the American System was
Henry Clay
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James Monroe...
was a Virginia Republican
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The secretary of state for the duration of Monroe's presidency was...
John Quincy Adams
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One notable thing about the 1820 election was...
the disappearance of the federalists
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The Rush-Bagot agreement...
ended naval competition on the Great lakes by limiting naval forces there
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Andrew Jackson led American troops into Florida in 1818 to do what?
to pursuit the hostile seminoles
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The transcontinental treaty of 1819
extended the boundary of Louisiana to the Pacific
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The immediate cause of Panic of 1819 was
a sudden collapse of cotton prices
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Missouri's admission to the Union as a slave state was balanced by the admission of the free state of...
Maine
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The Missouri compromise stipulated that in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36, 30'
slavery would be excluded
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In McCulloch vs. Maryland, The marshall court struck down the state's ability to tax what?
The national bank
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The Supreme Court in Gibbon vs. Ogden settled a controversy over...
Hudson River ferry service
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In 1824, the US states signed a treaty with Russia concerning...
Claims to Oregon
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Who was not a candidate in the election of 1824?
John Calhoun
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The election of 1824 was ultimately decided by who?
The house of reps
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The "corrupt bargain" in the election of 1824, referred to...
The belief that Clay supported Adams in return for becoming secretary of state
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The Tariff of 1828
boosted the presidential hopes of Jackson
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The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was published in response to the...
Tariff of 1828
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One of Jackson's greatest personal vulnerabilities in the 1828 campaign was...
the scandal surrounding his marriage
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By the 1820's the right to vote had generally been extended to...
Adult white males
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In this new political era, Jackson had a tremendous advantage because of his...
identification with the common people
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The Jacksonian concept of equality was a belief that...
Everyone should have an equal chance to succeed
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Before he became President, Andrew Jackson...
killed a man in a duel, was a popular general, fought the British in the revolution, and had experienced youthful hardship (answer is all of the above).
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Thomas Jefferson considered Andrew Jackson unfit for the presidency due to his...
violent temperment
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Andrew Jackson was a true Jeffersonian in his...
Belief in limited government
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The Peggy Eaton affair revealed what?
The destructive gossip of the Washington social scene
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the proposed Maysville Road...
would be entirely in Kentucky
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Despite the fact that Andrew Jackson continually opposed federal aid to local projects, he did support...
Interstate projects such as the national road
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By the 1820's South Carolina...
was experiencing agricultural depression
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Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition and Protest...
Argued that states could nullify federal legislation
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The Webster-Hayne debate is best remembered for...
Webster's eloquent defense of the union
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In the Webster-Hayne debate, Robert Y. Hayne argued that...
The Union was created by a compact of the states
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Jackson declared his opposition to nullifcation...
In his toast at a Jefferson day dinner
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The compromise tariff that ended the nullification crisis was authored by who?
Henry Clay
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President Jackson's policy toward Indians could best be described as one of...
Removal to lands west of the Mississippi River
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The Indian Chief who resisted federal policy in Illinois and Wisconsin was...
Black Hawk
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President Jackson's attitude toward the Supreme Court's decision in Wocester vs. Georgia was..
Defiance
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In regard to banks and banking policy, Jackson...
much preferred hard money to paper currency
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Jackson viewed the Bank of the United States as...
A monopoly that served the interests of a wealthy few
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After his reelection Jackson moved to destroy the Bank of the US by...
withdrawing its federal deposits
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"Pet Banks" were...
state banks that received federal government deposits
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The specie circular
required gold or silver payment for public lands
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Jackson's opponents called themselves Whigs to...
Denounce what they saw as Jackson's tyrannical qualities
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Martin Van Buren was known as the little magician due to his...
skill as a professional politician
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William Henry Harrison
Had defeated the Shawnees at Tippecanoe
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One undebatable fact about the Jacksonian era is...
The dramatic increase in voter participation by 1840
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Steamboats..
brought cheaper and faster two-way traffic to the Mississippi Valley
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By the 1830's most western products were still marketed by...
the Flatboat
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The Erie Canal did NOT do this
Bankrupt New York State with its huge cost
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The trains in use by the 1850's...
were much faster than stagecoaches, spurred iron production, reduced transportation costs, and sped up western settlement (answer is all of the above).
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The first American factories produced what?
Cotton Textiles
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The settlement of the West was accelerated by Cyrus McCormick's invention of the...
Mechanical Reaper
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By the 1840's a communications revolution had been triggered by the development of the...
telegraph
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One striking aspect of the Lowell factories was...
their employment of young single women
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The major impetus for the huge Irish immigration to the US after 1845 was...
The potato famine
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Anti-Irish prejudice was especially based upon...
Fear of growing Catholic influence
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In terms of political behavior, the Irish
generally supported the democrats
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the Know-Nothing Party
Was established in the 1850's
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The Know-Nothings proposed to...
lengthen the time required to become a citizen
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Joseph Smith did what?
Found golden plates whose etchings became the Book of Mormon
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Through the 1830's and early 1840's, Mormons...
Generated hostility from non-mormons
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Brigham Young did what?
Led the Mormons into Utah
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In 1840, American literacy rates
Were the highest in the Western world
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After Mexico gained its independence in 1821, the Santa Fe Trail established a vigorous commerce between New Mexico and...
Missouri
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By the 1830's there was so much commercial activity between Mexico and St. Louis that the Peso had become
The primary medium of exchange in Missouri
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Most of those who traveled westward in wagon trains...
traveled in family groups
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With the onset of the California gold rush in 1849, Plains Indians, led by Cheyenne...
seized the opportunity to supply buffalo meat and skins to the white pioneers
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Most of the American settlers in Texas went there because of...
cheap cotton lands
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In the 1820's Stephen F. Austin...
Encouraged thousands of Anglos to settle in Texas
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At the battle of Alamo...
The Mexicans won a costly victory
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Sam Houston's contribution to Texas and its independence was...
The defeat of the Mexican army at San Jacinto
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The republic of Texas...
developed trade relations with Britain and France
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The major factor that delayed Texas annexation until 1845 was...
Concern over Texas entering as a slave state
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Polk's nickname of "Young Hickory" most reflected his...
Association with Jackson and support for his policies
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Congress voted to annex Texas..
Between Polk's election and his inauguration
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Polk settled the Oregon boundary dispute with the British by...
agreeing to a border along the 49th parallel
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Polk ordered Zachary Taylor to move his troops to the Rio Grande because he wanted to...
Provoke a Mexican attack
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Among the most vocal opponents of the Mexican War was...
Abe Lincoln
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As a result of his victories in Northern Mexico, the Mexican War made a national hero of who?
Zachary Taylor
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Early in the Mexican War, Polk grew most concerned over Zachary Taylor's..
Growing popularity that might make him a political rival
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The decisive victory in the war came with Winfield Scott's capture of...
Mexico City
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What was NOT a result from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
US troops continued to occupy Mexico
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What was NOT true about the Mexican War?
It was one of the most unselfish wars in history
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During 1850, the US faced the real danger of...
Disunion
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During the great congressional debate over the Compromise of 1850...
Clay called for an end to sectional division
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The politician whose strategy enabled the passage of the Compromise of 1850 was...
Stephen Douglas
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Stephen Douglas was more successful than Clay in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed because...
He split the issues into separate bills
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The new Fugitive Slave Act
Outraged abolitionists
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Stephen Douglas's proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act...
Might allow slavery in Kansas and Nebraska
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John Brown and his followers in Kansas...
Murdered some pro-slavery men in Pottawatomie
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Lincoln won the election of 1860 by doing what?
Sweeping the free states
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The first state to secede was?
South Carolina
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In response to secession, President Buchanan...
Did practically nothing
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The Confederates were inspired to bombard Fort Sumter as a result of...
Lincoln's decision to resupply it
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As union commander, Grant was best characterized by his...
Plan to relentlessly attack
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At Petersburg...
Grant put the confederate forces under siege
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Sherman's army in its march to the sea...
Looted and destroyed lots of property
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At Appomattox Court house...
Most confederate resistance ended
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What was NOT a confederate victory?
Vicksburg
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More than any other general, William T. Sherman recognized...
The importance of breaking confederate morale
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Lincoln's second inaugural address...
Was a plea for reconciliation
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The death toll in the Civil War was roughly
630,000
