AICE U.S. 1st Sem Exam (Ch 1 & 2)

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Who issued the "spot resolution" demanding to know on whose soil blood had been spilt leading to the Mexican War?

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Abraham Lincoln

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What was controversial about the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Options: Fugitive slaves arriving in either state would be freed, Kansas would be admitted as a slave state, Nebraska as a free state, Blacks would have no claim to the rights enjoyed by the citizens of the two new states, Settlers would decide whether their state would be free or slave.

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Settlers would decide whether their state would be free or slave.

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True about the Compromise of 1850: Slavery was allowed in Washington, D.C.; Congress would determine the status of slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico; California was opened to "popular sovereignty" - the people would decide free or slave; The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.

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The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.

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The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that

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African-Americans had no rights whites were compelled to recognize

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He was beat within inches of his life on the floor of the Senate by Preston Brooks over the issue of slavery on

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Senator Charles Sumner

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Which of the following is true about the election of 1848?
Options:
Lewis Cass of Michigan won the election,
Martin Van Buren was the presidential candidate for the Liberty Party,
Charles Francis Adams was the Democratic Party's nominee,
Zachary Taylor won the election

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Zachary Taylor won the election

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His death, and his successor's support of Henry Clay over the admission of California, led to the passage of the Compromise of 1850. Who was the president?

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President Zachary Taylor

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This party called for slavery to be banished from the western territories and free land for homesteaders.

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Free Soil Party

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True about the 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act

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Allowed the question of free/slave to be decided by "popular sovereignty."

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Under the Fugitive Slave Act

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Authorized federal commissioners full authority to decide the fugitive slave's fate