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The chapter introduction tells the stories of Lawrence and Pottawatomie, Kansas, to make the point that |
| | A) | westward migration continued despite the distractions of sectional strife. |
| | B) | it was deliberate, violent acts by an extremist minority that sucked Americans into the Civil War. |
| | C) | the ability of settlers in Kansas to disagree, yet still get along with each other, shows that the Civil War was not necessarily inevitable. |
| | D) | violence in Kansas discredited popular sovereignty, the only remaining compromise solution to the growing sectional split. |
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What weakened the natural economic and political ties of the South to the West? |
| | A) | Railroads diverted trade from the Mississippi artery to an eastward direction. |
| | B) | Southerners supported federal economic development programs. |
| | C) | Northerners deliberately plotted to establish a colonial relationship over the cotton South. |
| | D) | Repeated economic depression in the South convinced northerners that their prosperity no longer depended upon the South. |
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By mid-century, the birth rate was declining, but population continued to grow. The explanation for this paradox is also the explanation for another development in those years, the |
| | A) | rise of the medical and nursing professions in the United States. |
| | B) | rise of the short-lived American party. |
| | C) | Gadsden Purchase. |
| | D) | Ostend Manifesto. |
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Which of the following groups was NOT a significant participant in immigration to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s? |
| | A) | Irish |
| | B) | Germans |
| | C) | Africans |
| | D) | Scandinavians |
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Southern leaders did each of the following during the 1850s EXCEPT |
| | A) | invest their capital in slaves rather than in machinery. |
| | B) | create an industrial base to prepare their region for secession. |
| | C) | complain that northern banking and commercial power was turning the South into a colony. |
| | D) | resist federal aid for economic development. |
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What was the Gadsden Purchase? |
| | A) | acquisition of a strip of Mexican land as a railroad route |
| | B) | payment to Britain to clear the last jointly held area in the Oregon Country |
| | C) | an offer to buy Cuba from Spain that was rejected by Congress |
| | D) | an agreement with Russia to obtain Alaska |
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According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would be the status of slavery in those western territories? |
| | A) | Slavery was expressly prohibited. |
| | B) | Slavery was expressly permitted. |
| | C) | Slavery was permitted in Kansas but banned in Nebraska. |
| | D) | The people would decide. |
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The Jacksonian party system collapsed in the 1850s for all of the following reasons EXCEPT |
| | A) | the rise of nativism. |
| | B) | the rise of new issues to replace economic concerns. |
| | C) | the rise of a third party that diminished the importance of the existing divisions. |
| | D) | the public sentiment that both parties were merely corrupt engines of plunder. |
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The most important component of the ideology of the Republican party at its founding was |
| | A) | a nationalist approach to economic development. |
| | B) | free labor. |
| | C) | immigration restriction. |
| | D) | a repudiation of the Revolution and its acceptance of slavery. |
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The Dred Scott decision |
| | A) | struck down the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
| | B) | asserted that Congress could prohibit slavery in any territory. |
| | C) | asserted that Congress could not ban slavery from any territory. |
| | D) | freed Dred Scott. |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel that was quickly adapted into a play, had a significant impact on northern opinion because it |
| | A) | took advantage of the fact that influential middle-class Americans were regular playgoers. |
| | B) | introduced ordinary Americans to the literary classics. |
| | C) | conveyed a moral condemnation of slavery. |
| | D) | presented for the first time a factual account of the actual conditions of slavery in the South. |
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During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, |
| | A) | Lincoln proclaimed the equality of whites and blacks. |
| | B) | Douglas introduced the Freeport Doctrine, which argued that slavery could not be kept out of the territories. |
| | C) | Douglas gained additional support from the southern branch of the Democratic party. |
| | D) | Lincoln marked himself as a potential presidential candidate in 1860. |
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was significant for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that |
| | A) | it provoked bloody retaliation against antislavery voters in Kansas. |
| | B) | it intensified southern fears of slave insurrection. |
| | C) | it intensified southern suspicions about the Republican party. |
| | D) | it added to the southerners' belief that their interests could not be protected within the Union. |
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Which of the following states seceded before the firing on Fort Sumter? |
| | A) | Virginia |
| | B) | North Carolina |
| | C) | Alabama |
| | D) | Tennessee |
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Ultimately, the text concludes that several historical trends caused the split between North and South. Which of the following was NOT one of these trends? |
| | A) | The emerging market system created two economies, one of which was dependent on an enslaved labor force. |
| | B) | A conservative, hierarchical southern society increasingly held to values that contrasted with those of the egalitarian, evangelical North. |
| | C) | Certain flaws in the political system prevented a national political solution. |
| | D) | Each side sought to defend America's heritage of republicanism against what was perceived as the other side's conspiracy against that heritage. |
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