Question 1

President Andrew Jackson did not favor the annexation of Texas.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The Wilmot Proviso

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A)   overturned the Missouri Compromise.
B)   was an appropriation to pay for peace with Mexico.
C)   banned all slavery west of the Mississippi River.
D)   prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
E)   passed in the House and was signed into law.F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 3

Since 1800,what were the factors in the regional development of the United States that made civil war more likely?

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Question 4

Why did the Whig Party collapse and the Republican Party come into being?

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The Whig Party, which was one of the two...

Question 5

President Taylor favored admitting California to the Union as a free state.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican candidate to run for president.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

In the 1820s,most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were

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A)   white southerners and their slaves.
B)   white northerners.
C)   recently-arrived European immigrants.
D)   whites from the Far West.
E)   free blacks.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 8

Only a tiny fraction of the so-called Forty-niners ever discovered gold in California.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The political party that came into being largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the

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A)   Know-Nothings.
B)   Populist Party.
C)   Republican Party.
D)   Jayhawk Party.
E)   Abolitionist Party.F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 10

During the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates,it became clear that Lincoln

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A)   believed slavery was morally wrong, but was not an abolitionist.
B)   believed slavery was morally acceptable under certain conditions.
C)   was an abolitionist
D)   believed racial equality was feasible at the time if certain concessions were made to southern elites.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 11

In the 1860 elections,the political party most deeply divided over slavery was the

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A)   Know-Nothing Party.
B)   Constitutional Union Party.
C)   Whig Party.
D)   Republican Party.
E)   Democratic Party.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 12

The "free soil" ideology included

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A)   a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as possible.
B)   the argument that slavery was tremendously harmful to American blacks.
C)   an argument for black male suffrage.
D)   the use of military force to suppress slavery.
E)   opposition to the expansion of slavery.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 13

In 1844,the Democratic Party was more pro-expansionist than was the Whig Party.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The 1853 Gadsden Purchase

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A)   cost the United States government $25 million.
B)   was made with England.
C)   advanced the cause of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad.
D)   fulfilled the treaty ending the Mexican War.
E)   temporarily calmed the rivalry between North and South.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 15

The Compromise of 1850 included a Fugitive Slave Act.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Describe Abraham's Lincoln's positions on slavery prior to his election to the presidency.

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Question 17

The 1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate

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A)   was in response to a pro-slavery speech he had given.
B)   was strongly condemned in the South.
C)   was a vicious assault carried out by a member of the House of Representatives.
D)   All these answers are correct.
E)   resulted in Sumner's death from his injuries weeks later.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California

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A)   with the agreement that there would be no additional states added for ten years.
B)   as a free state, along with Utah and New Mexico as slave states.
C)   as a slave state.
D)   along with an agreement to construct a transcontinental railroad.
E)   along with a strengthened fugitive slave law.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 19

Before the early 1850s,Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally

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A)   over the age of thirty.
B)   relatively young people who traveled in family groups.
C)   wealthy.
D)   domestic servants and prostitutes.
E)   from the eastern seaboard states.F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 20

In the 1820s,the United States and Britain jointly occupied Oregon.

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A) True 
 B)False

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