Question 1

Which condition did both slaves and free blacks in the United States experience during the antebellum period?

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Both groups were denied citizenship rights

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Both groups were able to vote in elections

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Both groups were forced to pay taxes

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Both groups were allowed to testify in court

Question 2

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

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Members of both groups were captured under the Fuguitive Slave Law

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Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcomed in the gold mines of California

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Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C. slave markets

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Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession

Question 3

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

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Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased.

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The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature

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Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories

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The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts

Question 4

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these Congressional Acts?

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Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

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Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

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Should states be able to secede from the Union?

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Should the U.S. expand westward?

Question 5

Which of these directly resulted from the event announced in this headline?

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The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North

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The federal government allowed the expansion of slavery into all new western territories

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Members of the U.S. Senate sought to end Black Codes in the Southern states

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Abolitionists moved to the South to avoid living under the new law.

Question 6

Which statement best explains the changes show in this table?

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Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations

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Slaves were transferred from the Lower South to the Upper South to work in newly built factories

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The Upper South experienced an agricultural labor shortage in the antebellum period

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The Lower South lost population as settlers migrated west to establish new plantations

Question 7

These data could be used to support which conclusion?

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States in the Lower South had more land devoted to planataions

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States in the Upper South were heavily industrialized

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Border states had to import needed raw materials

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Gulf Coast states had to rely on steamboats to transport goods

Question 8

Which of the following was one result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

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Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas

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The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther south

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Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas

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Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856

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