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1. Abolitionist arguments in the 1830s and 1840s were based most consistently
upon the:
(A) Constitution
(B) Declaration of Independence
(C) 14th Amendment
(D) Dred Scott decision
(E) Articles of Confederation
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(B) Abolitionist arguments were most often based on the Declaration of
Independence.
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2. The largest part of the free population of the antebellum South was made
up of:
(A) owners of large plantations, with 20 or more slaves
(B) free blacks
(C) white yeoman farmers
(D) recent immigrants
(E) middle-class city dwellers
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(C) Fewer than 3 percent of white Southerners lived on large plantations with
20 slaves or more. Most lived on small farms.
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3. Which of the following was best known as an opponent of slavery and an
advocate of women's rights?
(A) Dorothea Dix
(B) Emma Willard
(C) Mary Lyon
(D) Lucretia Mott
(E) Clara Barton
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(D) Quaker and abolitionist Lucretia Mott helped to organize the first women's
rights convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York.
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4. "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" was a slogan that referred to the:
(A) dispute over Oregon
(B) Texas Revolution
(C) Mexican War
(D) election of 1848
(E) Alamo
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(A) Under the Oregon Treaty, the United States and England divided the area at
the 49th parallel, the present northern boundary of the United States.
American expansionists wanted to claim the entire territory up to the Alaska
boundary.
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5. When John Brown and his followers seized a federal arsenal at Harper's
Ferry in 1859, their intent was to:
(A) start a Civil War
(B) become martyrs to the cause of the Union
(C) liberate Fort Sumter
(D) protest the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
(E) provoke a slave uprising
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(E) Brown and his followers hoped to provoke a rebellion against slavery that
would spread throughout the South.
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6. The "Freeport Doctrine" of Stephen A. Douglas may be best described as the:
(A) abolition of southern slavery
(B) legal way to keep slavery out of the territories without repudiating
the Dred Scott decision
(C) legal way to keep slavery out of the territories without repudiating
the Compromise of 1850
(D) extension of slavery to the territories without offending political
abolitionists
(E) repudiating of popular sovereignty
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(B) Douglas proposed a bar to slavery.
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7. In the election of 1860, the Republican Party advocated:
(A) abolition of slavery throughout the nation
(B) immediate colonization of free blacks
(C) preventing the extension of slavery to the territories
(D) popular sovereignty in the territories
(E) compensated emancipation
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(C) In the 1860 election, the Republican party supported the prohibition of
slavery in the territories.
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8. The "Anaconda Plan" for victory during the Civil War may be best described
as a strategy of:
(A) President Lincoln
(B) Andrew Johnson
(C) General Lee
(D) General Scott
(E) Jefferson Davis
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(D) The Anaconda Plan was General Scott's long-range strategy for Union
victory. It involved surrounding the Confederacy on the coast and inland.
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9. Which of the following constitutional amendments abolished slavery?
(A) 12th Amendment
(B) 13th Amendment
(C) 14th Amendment
(D) 15th Amendment
(E) 16th Amendment
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(B) The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, prohibited slavery in all states
in the Union. Former Confederate states, which had not yet been readmitted
to the Union, did not participate in ratification of the Amendment.
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