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The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred because Lincoln challenged Douglas to them in their campaign to win nomination/election as
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United States senator from Illinois
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From 1800 to 1850, the land area of the United States more than
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Tripled
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America's largest export in the mid-nineteenth century was
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Cotton
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In the 1850's, the flowering of American works of fiction and poetry was called
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The American Renaissance
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The Scarlet Letter, a work of social criticism, was written by
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Moby Dick, a classic of American fiction, was written by
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Herman Melville
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The most successful novel of the mid 19th Century was
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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An essay by Henry David Thoreau indicative of transcendental literature was
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Walden
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By 1850 most southern leaders like Calhoun and Toombs
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Insisted slavery must be national
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The vast new territories gained in the Mexican war
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Provoked a new debate over the issue of slavery in the territories
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Ironically, northerners and southerners basically agreed on certain things. Which one of the following is NOT one of them?
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Ideology of labor
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Many northerners were fearful of what the called
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"the slave power"
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Southerners favored American expansion into Mexico and Cuba
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Because they felt slavery could grow there
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Above all, southern slave owners feared
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Being outnumbered in the U.S. Senate
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The issue of slavery in the territories came to a head when
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California applied for statehood
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