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1. | In the election of 1848, Zachary Taylor lost the support of some Whigs because he ____________
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| A) was a hero of the Mexican War.
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| B) campaigned for "Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men."
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| C) ran with Martin Van Buren as vice president.
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| D) owned a Southern plantation with 100 slaves.
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2. | In 1849, equal representation of slave and free states in the Senate was threatened by the application of statehood of ____________
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| A) Missouri.
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| B) California.
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| C) New Mexico.
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| D) Utah.
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3. | In 1849, Northern efforts to control the spread of slavery brought all the following Southern responses EXCEPT ____________
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| A) defense of abolitionists.
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| B) denouncement of the Missouri Compromise.
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| C) threats to secede from the Union.
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| D) fears of a race war.
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4. | In 1850, what former territory entered the union as a free state?
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| A) Oregon
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| B) Texas
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| C) Maine
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| D) California
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5. | The senator most responsible for passage of the Compromise of 1850 was ____________
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| A) Millard Fillmore.
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| B) John C. Calhoun.
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| C) Henry Clay.
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| D) Stephen A. Douglas.
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6. | The new Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 provided that ____________
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| A) fugitive slaves would be deported to Canada.
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| B) free African Americans could be treated as fugitives.
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| C) African Americans could testify in court.
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| D) persons caught aiding runaway slaves could be fined or jailed.
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7. | All the following were well-known African American abolitionists EXCEPT ____________
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| A) Andrew Butler.
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| B) Frederick Douglass.
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| C) Sojourner Truth.
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| D) Harriet Tubman.
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8. | Author Harriet Beecher Stowe learned about slavery by visiting plantations and ____________
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| A) helping pass the new Fugitive Slave Act.
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| B) talking with plantation overseer Simon Legree.
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| C) publishing a slave narrative about the effects of Northern slavery.
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| D) hearing stories of fugitives on the Underground Railroad.
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9. | People from different groups who wanted to stop the spread of slavery in the western territories joined together to form the ____________
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| A) American party.
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| B) Whigs.
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| C) Republican party.
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| D) Know-Nothings.
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10. | By 1856, the Democratic party was made up mostly of ____________
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| A) anti-Nebraska Whigs.
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| B) Northerners.
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| C) Know-Nothings.
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| D) Southerners.
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11. | With the help of a large electoral vote in the South, the winner of the election of 1856 was ____________
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| A) Millard Fillmore.
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| B) John C. Frémont.
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| C) Abraham Lincoln.
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| D) James Buchanan.
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12. | Abraham Lincoln gained his first political position when he was elected ____________
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| A) to the Illinois state legislature.
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| B) as an Illinois representative in Congress.
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| C) United States senator from Illinois.
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| D) governor of Illinois.
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13. | Because Stephen A. Douglas promised that he would not annul laws against slavery in the territories, the Democratic party in 1860 ____________
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| A) chose Abraham Lincoln as its candidate.
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| B) supported secession by slave states.
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| C) supported both popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision.
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| D) split into Northern and Southern Democrats.
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14. | In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans called for all the following measures EXCEPT ____________
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| A) opposition to extending slavery into the territories.
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| B) a homestead act for farmers.
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| C) an end to slaveholding in the South.
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| D) a protective tariff.
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15. | Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 because he ____________
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| A) received a majority of the popular vote.
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| B) carried every free state except California.
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| C) won the support of 10 Southern states.
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| D) received a majority of the electoral vote.
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