Question 1

In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln .

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A)   acknowledged the legality of secession
B)   threatened total war against the rebel states
C)   promised to enforce federal law in all of the states
D)   offered to negotiate with the rebel states

Question 2

-This drawing of Chinese miners was most likely intended to emphasize that they were

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A)   threatening
B)   exotic
C)   similar to Indians
D)   unlikely to settle permanently

Question 3

-What conclusion about the presidential election of 1856 can be made by interpreting this graph?

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A)   The Republican Party won most of its support in the South.
B)   The American Party still demonstrated strength in all national regions.
C)   The Republican Party had the advantage of being the only true national party.
D)   Although a Northerner, James Buchanan won the election by winning the South.

Question 4

The 1850 quote made in the magazine DeBow's Review stating that "We have a destiny to perform a 'manifest destiny' over all Mexico, over South America, over the West Indies" is most closely associated with the beliefs of .

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A)   Northern factory owners
B)   Southern fire-eaters
C)   the Free-Soil Party
D)   the Young America movement

Question 5

-What does this image of African American abolitionists killing a Maryland slaveholder searching for his runaway slave in Christiana, Pennsylvania, and the case of Shadrach Minkins, a runaway who was physically removed from his court hearing in Boston by abolitionists, reveal about abolitionists' attitudes toward the Fugitive Slave Act?

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A)   Abolitionists were willing to cooperate with slaveholders and return their property.
B)   Abolitionists turned to religion to convince the public to resist this law.
C)   Abolitionists were willing to break laws to resist the Fugitive Slave Act.
D)   Abolitionists adhered to "personal liberty laws" that prohibited Northern state and local courts from trying cases of runaway slaves.

Question 6

What political party emerged for the first time after the 1854 congressional elections and had an overriding commitment to oppose future concessions to Southern slave interests?

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A)   the Republican Party
B)   Northern Democrats
C)   the American Party
D)   the Constitutional Union Party

Question 7

-How did many Northern abolitionists respond to the 1856 political cartoon Liberty, the Fair Maid of Kansas-in the Hands of the "Border Ruffians," which depicts Democratic politicians Senator Lewis Cass, President Franklin Pierce, and Senator Stephen Douglas as the violators of liberty in that territory?

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A)   Many ignored the situation in Kansas.
B)   Many of them sent money or guns to antislavery forces in Kansas.
C)   Many of them called for settlers from Missouri to come vote illegally for an antislavery constitution in Kansas.
D)   Many of them moved to Kansas to fight proslavery forces.

Question 8

-What did John Brown's raised right hand in this daguerreotype taken by black photographer Augustus Washington indicate?

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A)   Brown pledged to destroy slavery in the United States.
B)   The five fingers on his hand represented his support for the five different parts of the Compromise of 1850.
C)   Brown was being sworn in as an antislavery member of the state legislature in Kansas.
D)   Brown was showing how many proslavery settlers he killed at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

Exam 12: Slavery and Sectionalism: the Political Crisis of 1848-1861

In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln .

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-What conclusion about the presidential election of 1856 can be made by interpreting this graph?

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What political party emerged for the first time after the 1854 congressional elections and had an overriding commitment to oppose future concessions to Southern slave interests?

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The 1850 quote made in the magazine DeBow's Review stating that "We have a destiny to perform a 'manifest destiny' over all Mexico, over South America, over the West Indies" is most closely associated with the beliefs of .

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-What did John Brown's raised right hand in this daguerreotype taken by black photographer Augustus Washington indicate?

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-This drawing of Chinese miners was most likely intended to emphasize that they were

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Exam 12: Slavery and Sectionalism: the Political Crisis of 1848-1861

In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln .

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-What conclusion about the presidential election of 1856 can be made by interpreting this graph?

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What political party emerged for the first time after the 1854 congressional elections and had an overriding commitment to oppose future concessions to Southern slave interests?

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The 1850 quote made in the magazine DeBow's Review stating that "We have a destiny to perform a 'manifest destiny' over all Mexico, over South America, over the West Indies" is most closely associated with the beliefs of .

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-What did John Brown's raised right hand in this daguerreotype taken by black photographer Augustus Washington indicate?

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