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In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, early-nineteenth-century politicians

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avoided public discussion of slavery

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The United States' victory in the Mexican War resulted in

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all of the above

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The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have

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prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War.

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The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession

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threatened to split national politics along North-South lines

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In 1848, the Free Soil party platform advocated all of the following except

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giving women the right to vote

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

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the people in any given territory

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The public liked popular sovereignty because it

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fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination

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In the 1848 presidential election, the Democratic and Whig parties

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remained silent on the issue of slavery

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The key focus for the major parties in the 1848 presidential election was

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personalities

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The event that brought turmoil to the administration of Zachary Taylor was the

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discovery of gold in California

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The Free Soilers argued that slavery

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would cause more costly wage labor to wither away

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Of those people going to California during the gold rush,

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a distressing high proportion were lawless men

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The Free Soilers condemned slavery because

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it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise to self-employment

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By 1850, the South

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was relatively well off, politically and economically

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Harriet Tubman gained fame

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by helping slaves to escape to Canada

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During the 1850s slaves gained their freedom most frequently by

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self purchase

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John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery involved

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the election of two presidents, one from the North and one from the South

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Daniel Webster's famed Seventh of March speech in 1850 resulted in

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a shift toward compromise in the North

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In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster

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called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law

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For his position in his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster was viciously condemned by

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abolitionists

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The Young Guard from the North

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were most interested in purging and purifying the Union

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In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that

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Christian legislators must obey God's moral law

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During the debate of 1850, ____________________ argued that there was "higher law" than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from the territories.

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William H. Seward

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In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was

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to be decided by popular sovereignty

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Southern delegates met at a convention in Nashville in the summer of 1850 to

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condemn the compromises being worked out in Congress

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The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning

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the new Fugitive Slave Law

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The Fugitive Slave Law included all of the following provisions except

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the requirement that fugitive 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 mad ea tactical blunder by

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demanding a strong fugitive slave law

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Many northern states passed "personal liberty laws" in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision regarding

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runaway slaves

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The man who opened Japan to the United states was

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Matthew Perry

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The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over

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slavery

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The election of 1852 was significant because it

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marked the end of the Whig party

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For a short time in the 1850s William Walker, an American adventurer, seized control of

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Nicaragua

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The United States' scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when

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northern free-soilers fiercely protested the effort

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In 1850, rebuffed as buyers, some Southern adventurers undertook to shake the tree of Manifest Destiny by attempting to seize by force

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Cuba

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Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new Pacific Coast territories from breaking away from the United States control was

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to construct a transcontinental railroad

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Some Southerners felt Cuba would be an enticing prospect for annexation for all of the following reasons except

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it was not controlled by any European power and would be easily acquired

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On July 3, 1844 the first formal diplomatic agreement between the United States and China was the

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Treaty of Wanghia

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A scheme to acquire Cuba from Spain in the 1850's was known as the

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Ostend Manifesto

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A southern route for the transcontinental railroad seemed the best because

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the railroad would be easier to build in this area

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

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Missouri Compromise

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One of Stephen Douglas's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was

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underestimating the depth of norther opposition to the spread of slavery

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An event which helped the cause of compromise in 1850, was when President Zachary Taylor

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died suddenly and Millard Fillmore became president

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Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas- Nebraska Territory be decided by

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popular sovereignty

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