APUSH Period 5

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Which of the following was a result of the Civil War? Options: the federal government took precedence over the states, slavery and racism were destroyed, the US was redefined as a confederation of sovereign states, it prohibited the states from setting individual policies on local issues

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the federal government took precedence over the states

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What was Lincoln's rationale for war against the South in 1861? Options: liberate the slaves, prevent Europe from meddling in American affairs, preserve the Union, stop a Southern invasion of the North

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preserve the Union

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In adopting the 14th Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with

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protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

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The Black Codes passed in Southern states after the Civil War intended to

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place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people

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The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following? admitted Texas to the Union as a slave state, admitted California to the Union under the principle of popular sovereignty, enacted a stringent fugitive slave law, adjusted the Texas-Mexico boundary

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enacted a stringent fugitive slave law

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The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

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held that the federal government could not regulate slavery in the territories

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A significant result of the Mexican-American war was that the United States

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experienced increasing tension over the issue of slavery

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The 14th Amendment overturned

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act introduced popular sovereignty to

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allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery would be permitted there

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During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the emergence of sharecropping.

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emergence of sharecropping