Midterm Review 24

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The Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around

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southern opposition to tariffs.

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The policy of the US government toward the Indians in the period immediately prior to the Civil War was to

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move the Indian population on to reservations.

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In the early 1800s, many people in the United States migrated westwards because of the availability of farmland.

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of the availability of farmland.

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Henry Clay proposed the American System to address what issue?

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the lack of a transportation system to connect the regions

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Why was President Thomas Jefferson reluctant to buy the Louisiana Purchase?

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It violated his strong belief in a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

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In what part of the country was a sense of “hardy individualism” the strongest prior to the Civil War? Options: Alaska and Hawaii, the West, the South, the Northeast

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the West

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Why is the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 significant?

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It was the start of the women’s rights movement.

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Which of these factors contributed most to the settlement of California in the late 1840s and early 1850s? Options: the discovery of gold and silver deposits, the high demand for factory workers, the opportunities to escape slavery, the availability of land for farming

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the discovery of gold and silver deposits

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What is the name of the route that they took to get to their new land?

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the Trail of Tears

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Which of these would have been most likely seen in the antebellum South? a cotton field on a large plantation, a shipyard repairing ships along the coast, a textile factory in a large urban town, a loading dock used to trade goods

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a cotton field on a large plantation