A) the Scott case was not a valid constitutional interpretation.
B) if the people of a territory refused to pass a slave code, slavery would never be established there.
C) Americans would stand behind congressional legislation to reverse the decision.
D) strategic river cities that chose to ban slavery within their city limits would set the tone for the whole territory.
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A) Germans fled a severe potato famine.
B) Germans, Irish, and Scandinavians came seeking improved economic opportunity.
C) The Irish and Scandinavians tended to come as families with some resources, but the Germans were usually single men from impoverished backgrounds.
D) Immigration swelled to its highest levels during periods of economic downturns in the U.S., when employers sought cheaper labor.
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A) religion
B) alcohol
C) slavery
D) All of these answers are correct.
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A) the economic survival of urban communities becoming less dependent on rail links
B) living near the tracks becoming a marker of social and economic divisions
C) increased traffic in fashionable neighborhoods and shopping areas
D) None of these answers is correct.
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A) It was a proslavery document, fairly drawn, that Congress approved.
B) It was a proslavery document, pushed through by fraud, which Congress did not approve.
C) Douglas's support for it undermined his political credibility in the North.
D) Congress had not authorized a separate state of Lecompton.
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The debate over slavery was the most central issue to provoking the Civil War. The 1850s saw multiple events that highlighted the growing tensions over slavery, including the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and the Dred Scott decision of 1857.
The Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave Act, intensified the debate over slavery by requiring Northern states to return escaped slaves to their owners. This led to widespread resistance and increased tensions between the North and South.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 further exacerbated tensions by allowing settlers in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. This led to violent conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces, known as "Bleeding Kansas."
The Dred Scott decision of 1857 also fueled the fire, as it declared that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not citizens and could not sue in federal court. This decision outraged abolitionists and heightened the divide between the North and South over the issue of slavery.
While the debate over states' rights and economic differences were also contributing factors to the Civil War, it was ultimately the issue of slavery that was most central in provoking the conflict, as evidenced by the events and tensions of the 1850s.
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A) Transportation improvements on land and water, especially the rise of the railroad, transformed the American economy.
B) Agriculture remained largely unaffected by technology, and thus diminished in importance as a component of the market economy.
C) The maturing factory system employed a growing industrial workforce, increasingly foreign-born.
D) Water power was increasingly being replaced by steam power.
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A) that the North was making the South into its economic colony.
B) that the immigrant influx strengthened the North's dominance in the House of Representatives.
C) that only the expansion of slave states could overcome the South's isolation and decreasing political clout.
D) that the threats against slavery had led to a sharp drop in the market value of slaves.
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A) westward migration continued despite the distractions of sectional strife.
B) it was deliberate, violent acts by an extremist minority that sucked Americans into civil war.
C) the ability of settlers in Kansas to disagree, yet still get along, shows that the Civil War was not necessarily inevitable.
D) violence in Kansas discredited popular sovereignty, the only remaining compromise solution to the growing sectional split.
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A) Because it worked to the advantage of Douglas's home state, southerners felt betrayed.
B) Because it overturned a policy on slavery already in place, northerners felt betrayed.
C) Because it did not provide for land grants along with territorial government, westerners felt betrayed.
D) Because it would attract immigrants who would vote Democrat, Whigs felt betrayed.
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A) John Deere
B) Cyrus McCormick
C) Edmund Flagg
D) Eli Whitney
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A) A sense of crisis grew in the region as the price of slaves jumped and the price of cotton remained relatively stagnant.
B) The progress of transportation development reoriented western trade toward New Orleans.
C) Although cotton's importance as an export crop declined, it remained the primary driver of domestic economic growth.
D) As they converted to the new agricultural machinery, southern planters found themselves deeply in debt in a time of declining profits.
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A) popular sovereignty
B) the Freeport Doctrine
C) the Dred Scott decision
D) the Lecompton constitution
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A) It attracted a coalition of voters throughout the nation.
B) It emerged from a coalition of Democrats and Whigs who opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
C) It was a sectional party pledged to the spread of slavery.
D) It was led by the principle of popular sovereignty.
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