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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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