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Proponents of popular sovereignty believed that
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Residents of a territory should decide the issue of slavery.
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Effects of the Compromise of 1850 included...
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Sectional dissatisfaction by both sides.
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Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act included...
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A blood civil conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas.
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In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that...
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Blacks were not citizens of the United States.
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John Brown hoped that his raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia would...
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Start a slave rebellion in the state of Virginia.
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Before the first battle of the Civil War, most people on both sides thought
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Their side would win easily.
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All of the following were advantages for the North except
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Longer tours of duty produced a more experienced army.
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The Emancipation Proclamation...
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Only freed slaves in unconquered territory.
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The New York City Draft riot...
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Turned into violence based on social class and racism.
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President Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus for the purpose of...
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Making it easier to arrest and hold suspected Confederate agents.
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Short-staple cotton became a major profit-maker for all of the following reasons EXCEPT...
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The majority of settlers in the Old Southwest owned large plantations that grew it.
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Before 1850, who was the dominant power on the north and central Great Plains?
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The warrior-hunters of the Sioux tribe.
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Which practice did settlers bring to Texas that was illegal under Mexican law?
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Slavery
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The actual fighting of the Mexican War began when American forces moved into...
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The 100 miles between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers.
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Manifest Destiny was used to justify...
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The acquisition of territory in the west.
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