Question 1

These data could be used to support which conclusion?

Accepted Answer

States in the lower South had more land devoted to plantations.

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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 2

Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table?

Accepted Answer

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

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

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

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North.

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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.

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

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Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas.

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