APUSH Period 5 Review

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The GREATEST strength of the North was: its military leadership, its navy, its moral high ground, its economy

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its economy

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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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The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the Border States, the states only in rebellion, in the entire US, or in the West?

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the states only in rebellion

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During Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau was able to

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greatly increase the number of former slaves who could read (literate).

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The slogan “Manifest Destiny” referred to the conviction of Americans in the 1840s that the United States had a(n)

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obligation to spread across the continent.

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The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

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feared the expansion of slavery in the west would be competition for white labor.

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An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?
Options: Transportation in the South
, Popular sovereignty
, Fugitive Slave Act
, Representation in Congress

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Popular sovereignty

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Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision because: the decision allowed slavery in the territories

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the decision allowed slavery in the territories

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One impact of the Mexican-American War was...

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The United States got a large area of land in the Southwest.

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What name was given to Southern states that didn't secede? Options: Red States, Border States, Free States, Blue States

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Border States