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- 1. Abolitionist arguments in the 1830s and 1840s were based most consistently
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- (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
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- 2. The largest part of the free population of the antebellum South was made
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- (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?
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- (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:
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- (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
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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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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?
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- (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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