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1What did the Wilmot Proviso do?

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2Why was the election of 1848 significant?

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3All of the following were components of the Compromise of 1850 except

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4All of the following steeled Northern public opinion against the South except

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5Where did Franklin Pierce and his Southern expansionist supporters acquire new territory?

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6Pierce’s administration is best described as

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7Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act anger Americans in the North?

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8Who were the “border ruffians”?

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9Why did Stephen Douglas push the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress in 1854?

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10John Brown’s Pottawatomie Massacre

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11All of the following were consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act except

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12The 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford decision prompted

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13Roger Taney declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional on the grounds that

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14What statement best describes President James Buchanan’s position?

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15All of the following were true about the election of 1860 except

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16What did Lincoln do in his first inaugural address?

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17In terms of structure, the Confederate government was similar in many ways to

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18What did John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry demonstrate?

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19What did Stephen Douglas’s Freeport Doctrine challenge?

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20Stephen Douglas rejected the Lecompton Constitution on the grounds that

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21What did champions of popular sovereignty believe?

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22What did Harriet Tubman and other Underground Railroad “conductors” defy?

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23Why were the Lincoln-Douglas debates significant in Lincoln’s political career?

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24The seizure of Fort Sumter

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25Why did Southern Democrats refuse to support Stephen Douglas in the election of 1860?

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26Britain and the Union almost went to war over

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27Which of the following was one reason the border states were so important to the Union?

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28Lincoln was different from Davis in that he

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29Which of the following states was not a border state?

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30What did the Legal Tender Act do?

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31Why was Britain not as dependent on Southern cotton as the Confederacy had believed?

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32The Richmond Bread Riots were the result of

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33What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

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34William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea

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35The Union victory at Antietam was significant because

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36The Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg

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37Which of the following actions by Lincoln violated the Constitution?

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38Why did Lincoln suspend the writ of habeas corpus?

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39The National Banking Act

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40What did George McClellan and other Peace Democrats want?

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41Why did Jefferson Davis request the Hampton Roads Conference with the North?

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42All of the following were Confederate strengths going into the Civil War except

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43Toward the end of the war, many poorer whites in the South felt

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44All of the following were Northern strengths going into the war except

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45The Confederacy collapsed at the end of the war for all of the following reasons except

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46Lincoln’s primary objective during the war was

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47What did Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin do?

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48The First Battle of Bull Run

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49The Battle of Shiloh

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50Who won the presidential election of 1864?

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