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  1. Return to Of the People 4e Volume 1 Student Resources

Chapter 13 Self-Quiz 1

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

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. How did white southerners feel about territorial expansion?

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. What effect did the California Gold Rush have on the slavery question.

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. What did the Fugitive Slave Act require?

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. Who were the "Know-Nothings"?

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. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act mandate?

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. What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the two-party system?

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. How did Southern spokesmen defend slavery?

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. What did the Republican Party should be done in terms of broadening free blacks' rights?

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. What was the effect of Charles Sumner's two-day diatribe about "Bleeding Kansas"?

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

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. Why did John Brown try to capture Harper's Ferry?

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. Who won the 1860 election?

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. Who were the "fire-eaters"?

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. How did the north respond to John Brown's raid?

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. Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 in large part due to his campaigning in the South.

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. In the 1850s industry was replacing agriculture as the driving economic force.

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. Abolitionists and proslavery writers disagreed that the conflict between the North and South over slavery was irreconcilable.

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. Between the years 1830 and 1860 the proportion of southern white families who held slaves increased from one in four to one in three.

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. Moving west, buying land, and establishing a farm required more resources than most wage laborers had in the mid-1800s.

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