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This activity contains 15 questions.

Question 1.
Between 1800 and 1850, the United States had:

 
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Question 2.
Disagreements over slavery split all of the following into northern and southern groups except:

 
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Question 3.
The doctrine of states' rights was based on:

 
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Question 4.
The Compromise of 1850:

 
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Question 5.
The architect of the passage of the Compromise of 1850 was:

 
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Question 6.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 guaranteed captured African Americans an opportunity to testify in their own defense at a federal hearing.

   
 
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Question 7.
Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

 
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Question 8.
In 1856, the Free Soilers and the Border Ruffians fought over the issue of:

 
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Question 9.
What political party formed in 1850 to give political expression to anti-immigrant feeling?

 
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Question 10.
President James Buchanan ran into political trouble for openly breaking with the Southern wing of the Democratic Party.

   
 
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Question 11.
President Buchanan's most disastrous mistake was:

 
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Question 12.
All of the following were used by northerners to show that a "slave power" conspiracy against free men existed except:

 
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Question 13.
Neither Lincoln's northern Republicans nor Breckenridge's southern Democrats campaigned outside their own sections of the country.

   
 
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Question 14.
Which candidate in the 1860 election is NOT correctly paired with his position on slavery?

 
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Question 15.
Seven states from the Lower South seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama in early 1861.

   
 
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