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Q 1/22
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin may be described as:
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Having little effect on the start of the Civil War.
A powerful political force.
A success only in the United States.
A firsthand account of slavery.
Q 2/22
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Hinton H. Helper’s book The impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were:
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Northern Republican Abolitionists.
African-Americans.
Southern Planters.
Nonslaveholding southern whites.
22 questions
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin may be described as:
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Hinton H. Helper’s book The impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were:
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The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas
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The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850’s indicated the impracticality of ___________________ in the territories.
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The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed
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Match each candidate in the 1856 election below with the correct party:
A. John C. Fremont 1. Democratic
B. Millard Fillmore 2. Republican
C. Martin Van Buren 3. Know-Nothing
D. James Buchanan
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The central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was:
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As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because:
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Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Dred Scott decision, (B) Lincoln-Douglas debates, (C) Kansas-Nebraska Act, (D) John Brown’s attack on Harpers Ferry
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As a result of the panic of 1857, the South
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The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by
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As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates,
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Stephen A. Douglas argued in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that:
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In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to:
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Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination in part because he:
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When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina
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The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in
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“Lame-duck” President James Buchanan believed that
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Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because
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Which of the following was not one of the original seven states to succeed?
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(extra credit) What was the name of the treaty during the Tyler administration that solved the dispute over Maine’s northern border?
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(extra credit) The American president from 1853-1857 was: