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What did Stephen Douglas propose that helped pass the Compromise of 1850?

A
The Free-Soil Party would be given votes in Congress.
B
The slave trade would not be addressed.
C
Congress would vote on each measure individually.
D
California would be admitted to the Union as a slave state.
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What did some Northern states do to oppose the Fugitive Slave Act?

A
They passed personal liberty laws.
B
They ensured enslaved people had trials by jury.
C
They granted all escaped fugitives their freedom.
D
They elected members of the Free-Soil Party to Congress.
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What was one effect of settlers bringing herds of sheep and cattle to the West in the mid-1800s?

A
Native grasses were destroyed.
B
Indigenous people benefited.
C
Water supplies were polluted.
D
Diseases were spread.
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The cotton gin sped up the production of cotton by

A
planting cotton seeds in neat rows for cultivation.
B
picking cotton without damaging the cotton plants.
C
separating the seeds from the cotton plant quickly.
D
packing cotton fiber into bales for shipment to mills.
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Which of the following fears did some Americans have about acquiring new territory in the Mexican Cession?

A
New slave states would help the South gain power in Congress.
B
The relationship between the United States and Mexico would never recover.
C
Another war would break out between the United States and Mexico.
D
The United States had grown too large to govern effectively.
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Which of the following best describes the Underground Railroad?

A
It was a piece of the transcontinental railroad that was built in Kansas.
B
It was a group of abolitionists who were hiding out from the government.
C
It was a secret escape network for enslaved people seeking freedom.
D
It was a north-south route along an early railroad line in the 1800s.
7

How many states or parts of states did the US create from the Mexican Cession?

A
two
B
five
C
seven
D
ten
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In exchange for manufactured goods, Indigenous people in the West often traded

A
cattle.
B
sheep.
C
furs.
D
guns.
9

What was one problem with overland travel in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

A
It was impossible to ship goods over long distances.
B
It was slow and expensive to ship goods over land.
C
It was cheap to ship goods over land, but it took time.
D
It was expensive to ship goods over land, but it was fast.
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How did Frederick Douglass push for an end to slavery?

A
He led enslaved people to freedom in the North.
B
He advocated for abolition by giving speeches.
C
He was an apologist who supported abolition.
D
He published abolitionist poetry.
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Abraham Lincoln objected to the Kansas-Nebraska Act because he thought

A
the Missouri Compromise should be passed instead.
B
the act would force Northerners to track fugitive slaves.
C
the issue of popular sovereignty should be respected.
D
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was wrong.
12

By 1860, the number of miles of railroad tracks throughout the United States had risen to

A
3,000.
B
30,000.
C
300,000.
D
3 million.
13

What role did Antonio López de Santa Anna play in the Mexican-American War?

A
He was the ruler of Mexico.
B
He was the leader of the American forces in Texas.
C
He was the commander of the Mexican military.
D
He was the Mexican ambassador to the United States
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A result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was that

A
Texas gained much of the land controlled by Mexico.
B
Texas became an independent republic.
C
the United States paid $15 million for the southwest territories.
D
the United States gave control of California to Mexico.
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In the mid-1800s, one result of Manifest Destiny was that

A
the northern boundary of the United States was set at 54°40’.
B
the United States and Great Britain went to war in 1846.
C
the nation elected a president who was a member of the Whig Party.
D
the traditional Indigenous way of life was threatened.
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A group that was part of the Free-Soil Party was made up of

A
anti-abolitionists.
B
Republicans.
C
antislavery Whigs.
D
Southern Democrats.
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What was one significant result of the changes in manufacturing and transportation that took place in the first half of the nineteenth century?

A
Many factory laborers left cities to work in far away rural areas due to improvements in transportation.
B
Improved transportation led to the development of many new factories in the South and the West.
C
People in cities often made more money as they took on skilled positions in manufacturing and transportation.
D
Cities became overcrowded as more and more people traveled to the North, looking for factory work.
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Nativists in the 1840s believed that immigrants

A
had much in common with them.
B
deserved better working conditions.
C
could not fit into American society.
D
should be better integrated into society.
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Which of the following challenges did pioneers typically face on the Santa Fe Trail in the mid-1800s?

A
desert sand that slowed wagons to a crawl
B
harsh winter snows that trapped travelers
C
heavy rainstorms that washed away roads
D
high, rugged mountains that were hard to cross
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Why did California’s application for statehood cause a sectional crisis?

A
Its entrance as a free state would upset the balance in favor of the North.
B
Its entrance as a slave state would upset the balance in favor of the South.
C
Its entrance a slave state would cause free African Americans there to lose their freedom.
D
Its entrance as free state would cause enslaved people there to be automatically freed.

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