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How did Californiaโs application for statehood upset the Missouri Compromise?
The Missouri Compromise evenly split the number of slave and free states. California would be admitted as a free state, which would tilt the balance
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Which act did the Dred Scott case deem unconstitutional?
the Missouri Compromise
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Why did some plantation owners present the Ostend Manifesto to the U.S. government?
They wanted free African Americans out of the South.
They wanted a good relationship with Spain
They wanted Cuba to be a new slave state.
They wanted to pay less for manufactured goods.
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What was one provision of the Compromise of 1850?
It decided all conflicts about slavery
It admitted California as a slave state.
It prohibited slavery in territories won from Mexico.
It admitted California as a free state.
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Why were southerners angry at the prospect of organizing the territory west of Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri into new states?
The Missouri Compromise banned slavery in that territory. Southerners did not want any new free states in the Union.
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Who did the Republicans nominate in the presidential election of 1856?
John C. Frรฉmont
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How did the judge in the Dred Scott case describe enslaved people?
as personal property of slaveholders
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Who were the โteam of rivalsโ?
the men Lincoln appointed to his Cabinet
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Which candidate in the 1860 election campaigned in both the North and the South?
Stephen Douglas
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What is to formally withdraw from a nation or organization in order to become independent called?
Secede
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What was the Pony Express?
mail service between the East and the West
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In the election of 1860, which party supported the Free-Soil platform?
the Republican Party
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Which statement best describes Abraham Lincoln's background?
He never served in public office before he ran for president
He was born and raised on his familyโs farm in Illinois.
He had little formal schooling but was a successful lawyer.
He ran for president as the sitting senator from Kentucky.
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