A) It would prohibit slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico.
B) Both houses of Congress approved it.
C) Abraham Lincoln opposed it in Congress.
D) It would extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific.
E) It was clearly unconstitutional.
G) All of the above
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A) It led to the appointment of John Brown as one of the early generals of the Civil War.
B) It made civil war far less likely, as Jefferson Davis was temporarily appeased.
C) It caused restrictions on the movement of slaves to be lifted in Congress.
D) It created a martyr for the abolitionist cause and set off a panic throughout the slaveholding South.
E) It received widespread condemnation by abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass.
G) A) and B)
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A) The nation had grown far less powerful overall, which caused opposing groups to turn their attention to domestic issues such as slavery.
B) Abolitionists were becoming far less militant, so pro-slavery southerners had a harder time taking them and their intentions seriously.
C) The Compromise of 1850 still appeared to be a powerful, long-term solution to the issue of slavery, and the sudden onset of the Civil War came as a total shock.
D) Constant political conflict over slavery had led a growing number of people to decide the United States could no longer be a nation "half free and half slave."
E) Issues such as the fate of slavery in the Kansas Territory helped bring people with opposing views together and offered a concrete example of effective policy.
G) B) and D)
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A) It banned slavery even though an overwhelming majority of residents supported it.
B) It banned slavery but provided an exception to existing resident slave owners.
C) It legalized slavery even though a majority of residents opposed it.
D) It allowed each county in Kansas to vote on the legality of slavery.
E) It advocated for Kansas independence rather than statehood.
G) A) and D)
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A) He dropped the question of the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
B) He could depend on a sympathy vote from supporters of deceased President Taylor.
C) His support for popular sovereignty allowed many abolitionist senators to vote with him.
D) He split the issues into separate bills that would be voted on one at a time in Congress.
E) He was in better health and was more charismatic than Clay.
G) C) and D)
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A) Franklin Pierce
B) William Seward
C) John Frémont
D) Abraham Lincoln
E) James Buchanan
G) A) and E)
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A) was a presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union party in the 1860 election and ran on a highly vague platform
B) was one of the most experienced presidents but had limited ability, facing events such as the Dred Scott decision early on that resulted in his undoing
C) was Franklin Pierce's friend and secretary of war who was later elected president of the Confederacy
D) was a reluctant Whig presidential candidate in 1848 who had previously had no party affiliation
E) was a South Carolina congressman who openly campaigned for a pro-slavery Kansas and caned Charles Sumner
F) was the "Little Giant" who succeeded in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed and saw it as a way to stop the slavery debate
G) argued that Congress needed to protect the right of slave owners to take their property into the territories
H) was the chief justice for Dred Scott case who was from Maryland and supported the South
I) was the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate, which was unique because he had already been president as part of a different party
J) was the president who supported the Compromise of 1850 and who had inherited the office rather than running for it
L) A) and D)
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A) At one point a prominent banker, he opposed the concept of a national bank and sought to drastically lower protective tariffs.
B) Although he opposed the further spread of slavery, he showed his own racism in rejecting the idea of black equality.
C) A staunch abolitionist, he promised to end slavery wherever it existed and viewed civil war as inevitable to make this possible.
D) He relied on his reputation as a military hero and the support this had given him even in southern states.
E) He refused to mention slavery to other politicians or during debates because he feared it was far too controversial and would turn away voters.
G) A) and C)
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A) was a presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union party in the 1860 election and ran on a highly vague platform
B) was one of the most experienced presidents but had limited ability, facing events such as the Dred Scott decision early on that resulted in his undoing
C) was Franklin Pierce's friend and secretary of war who was later elected president of the Confederacy
D) was a reluctant Whig presidential candidate in 1848 who had previously had no party affiliation
E) was a South Carolina congressman who openly campaigned for a pro-slavery Kansas and caned Charles Sumner
F) was the "Little Giant" who succeeded in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed and saw it as a way to stop the slavery debate
G) argued that Congress needed to protect the right of slave owners to take their property into the territories
H) was the chief justice for Dred Scott case who was from Maryland and supported the South
I) was the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate, which was unique because he had already been president as part of a different party
J) was the president who supported the Compromise of 1850 and who had inherited the office rather than running for it
L) E) and H)
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A) appealing to fear.
B) sweeping the free states.
C) carrying the biggest states in both North and South.
D) massive voter fraud.
E) changing his position on slavery.
G) A) and D)
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A) He pushed Congress to pass it because he believed it would help keep the Union together.
B) He enthusiastically supported it in order to protect the interests of slaveholders and the economy.
C) He dismissed it as an attempt to contain slavery and convinced Wilmot to withhold it.
D) He blamed the South for the Mexican-American War and saw it as a way to punish southerners.
E) He argued against it so persuasively that Wilmot's idea would have little influence on the Civil War.
G) B) and D)
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A) The act's vagueness about the status of slavery greatly discouraged settlement to the
New state.
B) Popular sovereignty encouraged supporters and opponents of slavery to flood Kansas to vie for political control of the territory.
C) It ensured that Kansas would be admitted into the Union as a free state with a population deeply committed to abolition.
D) It made Kansas a slave state with a majority population of slaveholders who had traveled from the South.
E) It was similar to the Compromise of 1850 in that it soon provided a sense of resolution regarding the issue of slavery in a new state.
G) A) and E)
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