Sem 1 Final!

Question 0

Colonial law generally defined slaves as chattels. This meant that slaves were considered as?

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Pieces of property with no rights.

Question 1

What was not true about colonial families in mid-18c America?

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Women, while subservient to their husbands, set the moral standards by which children were raised and decided how the children would be educated and trained.

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By the early 1700’s, the slave codes of the English colonies in North America established all of the following rules EXCEPT that they?

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Allowed a slave with some white ancestry to apply for freedom.

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson once observed that the best school of political liberty the world ever saw was the?

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New England Town Meeting

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Why did the Salem witchcraft crisis occur?

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Experiencing feelings of powerlessness and insecurity, many Puritans found in witchcraft an explanation for the disorder and change around them.

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Benjamin Franklin’s concept of the “ideal American” differed from John Winthrop’s in which ways?

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Franklin valued individualism; Winthrop valued the submission of individual will to the good of the community.

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Anglo-American women in colonial times?

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Could own property or execute legal documents only if they were widowed or unmarried.

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Between 1650 and 1750, family life in the English colonies changed such that in?

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Northern colonies it grew less patriarchal, while in southern colonies it grew more patriarchal.

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Colonial cities functioned primarily as?

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Mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods.

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What did the Great Awakening, inter-colonial trade and American attitudes toward English culture and constitutional theory have in common?

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They contributed to a growing sense of shared American identity.

Question 10

According to the Whig ideology, the best defense against corruption and tyranny rested in the?

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Eternal vigilance by the people.

Question 11

In the mid-1800’s, the reform impulse in the United States included the idea that

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Man is essentially good and capable of positive change.

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John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a “corrupt bargain” when he appointed “ “ to become “ “

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Henry Clay; Secretary of State

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Protecting duties in a passage might mean

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The so-called tariff of abominations

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The cartoon of Jackson in King’s clothing likely means that

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The cartoonist didn’t appreciate Jackson’s use of the executive power.

Question 15

Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the Bank of the US except that

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It refused to lend money to politicians

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One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the United Sates was

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Its promotion of economic expansion by making credit more abundant.

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The transportation revolution of the period between 1800 and 1830 saw all of the following except

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The completion of significant railroad links between the NE and the NW.

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The transportation revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century resulted in

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Movement toward a national market economy by establishing transportation links between various regions.

Question 19

What is true about the development of transportation in the United States between 1800 and 1844?

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The majority of transportation improvements were financed by states or private enterprise

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The transcendentalists called for

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The use of emotion and intuition to go beyond the confines of understanding.

Question 21

The panic of 1837 was NOT caused by

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Taking the country off the gold standard

Question 22

Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to, and to annex, the new Republic of Texas because

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Antislavery groups in the US opposed expansion of slavery.

Question 23

What did not give rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early nineteenth century?

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The government regulation of all major economic industries.

Question 24

During the period 1800 to 1848, reform movements were most successful in achieving their goals in what category?

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state laws focusing on improved public education

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What was a component of the American System that Henry Clay didn't envision?

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Government ownership of railroads

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By 1848, which component of the American System was still used to benefit business?

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A protective tariff

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The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called

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nativism

Question 28

The effect of early-nineteenth-century industrialization on the trans-Allegheny West was to encourage

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specialized, cash-crop agriculture

Question 29

Between 1800 and 1860 American art best reflected which of the following trends?

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Glorification of nature and a sense of patriotic pride.

Question 30

The philosophy that best encapsulated Emerson's view of the roles of the individual and intuition was known as

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transcendentalism

Question 31

Emerson's glorification of the individual fits best with what political trend of the 1800-1840's?

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Jacksonian democracy's belief in rule by the common man.

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As a result of the transportation revolution

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each region in the nation specialized in a particular type of economic activity.

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The mormon religion originated in

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The burned-over district in NY

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The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800's

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stemmed from the hard and monotonous life of many

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Virtually all of the distinguished historians of early-nineteenth-century America came from

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the South

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Religious revivals of the second great awakening resulted in

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a strong religious influence in many areas of American life

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New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts in

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prison and asylum reform

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By the 1850s the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by

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Abolitionism

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The Oneida community declined due to

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Widespread criticism of their sexual practices

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The Hudson River school excelled in the art of painting

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Landscapes

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The purpose behind the spoils system was

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To reward political supporters with public office

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What did "the cult of domesticity" do?

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glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers.

Question 43

How did John Marshall interpret the constitution?

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Favored a loose constructionist approach

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Who was not in favor of territorial expansion in the first half of the 19th century?

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Abolitionists

Question 45

What was the kitchen cabinet?

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Was the nickname of Jackson's unofficial advisors

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Jackson's Maysville veto was an opportunity for him to

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Challenge federal infrastructure development

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The specie circular

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Was an attempt to remedy the problems associated with the destruction of the bank.

Question 48

What would a nullification supporter most likely say?

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The states can ignore laws they feel are unconstitutional

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Significant conflict arose between Jackson and his cabinet over

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The Peggy Eaton affair

Question 50

In the 1830's, who didn't support the Whigs?

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Irish and German catholics

Question 51

The city that gained the most out of the Erie Canal was

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New York

Question 52

Mother Ann Lee led the group of "come outers" called the

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Shakers

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Alexander Hamilton and James Madison joined forces in an attempt to

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Call for a convention to correct the defects of the Articles of Confederation

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The primary reason the Articles of Confederation restricted the power of federal government was

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fear of repeating the tyranny that many colonists believed they had suffered under British rule

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Despite its weaknesses, the Articles of confederation experienced their greatest success in

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setting up a system of survey and disposal of western lands

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Disagreement over determining state representation in the Articles of Confederation Congress led to the constitutional convention to incorporate what into the constitution?

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The division of congress into two branches, the House of Representatives and the senate.

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When George Washington said "there are combustibles in every senate which a spark might set fire to. I feel infinitely more than I can express for the disorder which have arisen" he was referring to

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the Whiskey Rebellion

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Most of the people who wrote the constitution

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distrusted any concentration of political power

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The element of the Constitution most representative of the anti-federalist perspective is the

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Bill of rights

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The authors of the federalist papers wrote them for the purpose of

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explaining the meaning and positive qualities of the constitution

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What did Alexander Hamilton NOT believe in?

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That the national government should reward only those who had originally loaned it money during the war.

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To win support for the federal assumption of state debts, Hamilton's supporters negotiated a bargain that

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Called for the construction of a new national capital within the proslavery area of the country.

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In response to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, President Washington

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Personally led an army of nearly 15,000 men into Pennsylvania.

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When war broke out in Europe in 1793 between France and Great Britain, the US government

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Declared the country neutral and tried to keep out of it

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Washington's farewell address in 1796

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Warned against the dangers of permanent, entangling foreign alliances

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The event that resulted in the Quasi war between the US and France was the

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XYZ affair

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In response to the alien and sedition acts, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison contended that state legislatures could declare federal laws unconstitutional. This view first appeared in

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the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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The republican vision of America as proposed by Thomas Jefferson included the idea of

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a society of sturdy, independent, yeoman farmers.

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One of the first lessons learned by the Jeffersonians after their victory in the 1800 presidential election was that

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it is easier to condemn from the stump than to govern consistently.

Question 71

What was not an effect of the invention of the cotton gin?

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A decrease in the use of slave labor in the Deep South

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From 1800 to 1820, what was not a major change in the US transportation system?

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The growth of a large railroad network

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President Jefferson was reluctant to accept the treaty for purchasing the Louisiana Territory because

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He doubted he had the constitutional authority for such a purchase.

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The Chesapeake-Leonard incident highlighted the American-British dispute concerning

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Impressment

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President Jefferson's embargo was intended to

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force Britain and France into leaving American ships alone.

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Because of opposition to the War of 1812 a movement toward secession was made by

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New England Federalists

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The growing nationalism of the late 1810s and 1820s was NOT reflected in

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The crisis over the admission of Missouri

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Henry Clay's call for federally funded roads and canals received whole-hearted endorsement from

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the West

Question 79

McCullough v. Maryland reflected which of tendency of the Supreme Court?

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to favor national over state power

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Who would be most likely to support McCullough v. Maryland?

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Former Federalists

Question 81

The "Era of Good Feelings" became a popular label for the administration of

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James Madison

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Under the provisions of the Adams-Onis treaty

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Spain ceded all of Florida to the United States

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The panic of 1819 was the result of a speculative boom in the economy that ran for a number of years before the panic. The causes of that speculation included all of the following except

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Tight credit from the Bank of the United States

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The decisions of the Marshall court established

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the power of the federal government to promote economic growth.

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One immediate effect of he Monroe Doctrine was that it

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Served as an important expression of emerging American nationalism

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Those who accused John Quincy Adams of a "corrupt bargain" maintained that he

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traded with Henry Clay for the Presidency

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As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin

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slavery

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What wasn't true of the American economy under the Cotton Kingdom?

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The South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade.

Question 89

Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because

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it was too diversified, taking essential nutrients from the soil

Question 90

The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because

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they could not afford the purchase price

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The most pro-Union of the white southerners were

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mountain whites

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By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the

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Deep South States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana

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In which way did slaves not fight the system of slavery?

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refusing to get an education

Question 94

Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery

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were creating disorder in America

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The South's "positive good" argument for slavery did not claim that

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slaves benefitted from receiving education and job training

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What did slave codes not do?

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try to protect slaves from abuses by their masters

Question 97

The United States' victory in the Mexican-American war resulted in

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all of the above

Question 98

Which provision did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo not include?

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the United States retaining transit rights across Mexico

Question 99

According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by

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the people of any given territory

Question 100

Harriet Tubman gained fame

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by helping slaves escape to Canada

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An event which helped the Compromise of 1850 was when President Zachary Taylor

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died suddenly and Millard Fillmore became President

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What provision did the fugitive slave not have?

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the requirement that slaves be returned from Canada

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In light of future evidence, it seems apparent that in the compromise of 1850 the south made a tactical blunder by

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demanding a strong fugitive slave law

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Stephen Douglas's plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required the repeal of the

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Missouri Compromise

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The central plank of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1856 election was

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expansionism

Question 106

When the compromise of 1850 passed, it included all of the following provisions except

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the exclusion of slavery from all parts of the mexican cession

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In the Ostend Manifesto, American diplomats called for American

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annexation of Cuba, by force if necessary

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"Bleeding Kansas" gained its reputation or violence because of the

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sporadic warfare between settlers on opposing sides in the battle over slavery

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The Lincoln-Douglas debates did NOT result in

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Lincoln saying that slaves must eventually be freed and awarded full legal equality

Question 110

As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many Northerners

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would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave act