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  1. Return to Of The People 5e, Volume 1 Student Resources

Chapter 13 Quiz

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. Which does not describe Frederick Douglass?

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. Market integration in the 1840s and 1850s helped

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. What is one reason farmers were able to grow and sell more crops in the 1850s?

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. Why did the westward expansion of slavery cause anxiety among free farmers?

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. What was the goal of the Wilmot Proviso?

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. Who supported Clay's "Omnibus?"

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. Which was one of the resolutions that Henry Clay proposed to balance the conflicting issues of the North and South?

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. Which statement is true about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

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. Which does not describe the Kansas–Nebraska Act?

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. Who was the Republican Party's first presidential candidate?

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. Which issue held together the members of the new Republican Party?

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. Who was Roger Brooke Taney?

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. In the 1850s, Democrats opposed all of the following except

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. What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?

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. In the election of 1860, Lincoln ran on a platform dedicated to

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. What was the policy of popular sovereignty?

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. What did the Free-Soil party demand?

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. Which of the following statements best describes the changes that took place in American farming between 1820 and 1860?

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. Which of the following statements best describes the effect of cotton on the South?

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. Which of the following statements best describes the experience of prospectors in the West?

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. Which of the following was an "internal improvement" championed during the 1850s?

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. How did white southern spokesmen defend slavery?

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. In the painting, a very tall John Brown stands with a long gun in one hand and a book like the bible in another hand and spreads both his hands. He stamps with his foot on the body of dead men. Men stand with guns near him. The American flag is in the background.
John Brown. The portrait illustrates which of the following historical developments?

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. Frederick Douglass associated freedom with the right to earn a living.

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. The development of the railroad and the invention of the telegraph integrated the United States into a single national market.

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. By 1860, the number of farmers had declined.

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. In 1856, proslavery settlers and antislavery settlers set up two competing governments in Kansas.

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. The New England Emigrant Aid Company succeeded in overwhelming Kansas with free-state settlers who could outvote proslavery forces.

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. The "fire-eaters" were temperance activists who wanted to destroy liquor supplies.

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. Map shows rail road expansion in North America. Railroads in operation, in 18 50 are spread across central and east America. They cross New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Rhode island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and few parts in Mississippi and Alabama. Railroads added by 18 61 are spread across all of central and east America, except few places in Kentucky and Virginia. The roads are very thick and complex below the lakes Michigan and Erie.
Map 13-1: Railroad Expansion. The map illustrates how the internal improvements only aided northern economic development.

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