2024- Fall Final

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Which president was elected in 1844 on a platform supporting expansion and Manifest Destiny?

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James K. Polk

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The Wilmot Proviso, which never passed, would have: prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico.

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prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico.

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This forbid slavery above the 38⁰30' except for Missouri

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Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Sectionalism may be defined as:

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placing the interests of a region over the interests of the nation as a whole

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Which statement best summarizes the influence of Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Options: The book’s shocking and emotional details turned many Northerners against slaves. The book’s shocking and emotional details turned many Southerners against slaves. The book’s shocking and emotional details turned many Northerners against slavery. The book’s shocking and emotional details turned many Southerners against slavery.

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The book’s shocking and emotional details turned many Northerners against slavery.

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Why did “Bleeding Kansas” occur?

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed popular sovereignty to determine whether or not Kansas and Nebraska would be slave territories or free territories.

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The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

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settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories

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What officially abolished slavery in the US? Options: Emancipation Proclamation, Surrender of Robert E. Lee, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment

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13th Amendment

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Name given to many Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans.

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carpetbaggers

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The amendment passed in June 1866, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of the law."

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Fourteenth Amendment