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- 1. In the election of 1848, "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor,
- Free Men" was the slogan used to support the candidacy of:
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- (A) Lewis Cass
- (B) Millard Fillmore
- (C) Zachary Taylor
- (D) Martin Van Buren
- (E) John C. Fremont
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- (D) In 1848, Martin Van Buren was the presidential nominee of the Free Soil
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- 2. All of the following are connected with the problem of slavery EXCEPT:
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- (A) the Wilmot Proviso
- (B) the Pottowatomie Massacre
- (C) the Lecompton Constitution
- (D) "Bleeding Kansas"
- (E) the Dorr Rebellion
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- (E) The Dorr Rebellion of 1842 in Rhode Island was the outcome of a movement to
- end state suffrage restrictions.
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- 3. The Ostend Manifesto of 1854 reflected American interest in the annexation
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- (A) Cuba
- (B) Mexico
- (C) Texas
- (D) Hawaii
- (E) Alaska
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- (A) The Ostend Manifesto was a plot conceived in 1854 by three American foreign
- ministers to seize Cuba from Spain.
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- 4. "The major political issue of the 1850s was the future of slavery in the
- territories." Which of the following supports this statement?
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- (A) the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- (B) the plantation records of a Missouri slaveowner
- (C) a description of California intended to lure settlers west
- (D) an abolitionist tract describing the living conditions of slaves
- (E) the memoirs of a Maryland slave who escaped to the North
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- (A) Slavery was the central issue here.
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- 5. The Lecompton Constitution of the 1850s could be best described as a:
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- (A) response to Stephen A. Douglas' "Freeport Doctrine"
- (B) rallying cry for proslavery forces in Kansas
- (C) response to the raid on Harper's Ferry
- (D) response to the election of Lincoln
- (E) document drawn up by railroad companies in Nebraska
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- (B) The Lecompton Constitution was enacted by proslavery settlers.
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- 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the:
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- (A) Compromise of 1850
- (B) Missouri Compromise
- (C) Northwest Ordinance
- (D) Dred Scott decision
- (E) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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- (B) The Kansas-Nebraska Act stated that popular sovereignty would be in effect
- in the territories, repealing the Missouri Compromise and opening the door to
- the possibility of slavery.
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- 7. All of the following were generals in the Union Army during the Civil War
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- (A) George B. McClellan
- (B) William T. Sherman
- (C) Ulysses S. Grant
- (D) William H. Seward
- (E) Ben Butler
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- (D) William H. Seward was Secretary of State under Lincoln.
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- 8. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 declared that slaves would be
- free in:
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- (A) all states of the Union
- (B) all states in which slavery existed
- (C) all states of the Confederacy
- (D) territory controlled by the Union Army
- (E) territory resisting the Union Army
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- (E) The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, a war measure, freed slaves in all
- areas resisting the Union Army, that is, in those under Confederate control.
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