1.
"54' 40' or Fight!" referred to what territory:
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B. 
C. 
D. 
2.
This was the name of the proposed legislation that would have banned slavery in any territories that were acquired from Mexico because of war:
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B. 
C. 
D. 
3.
This is the name given to the concept that the people who live in a territory should decide for themselves whether they want slavery or not, rather than have Congress make the decision for them:
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B. 
C. 
D. 
4.
This was the name of the abolitionist who led the massacre of pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek, KS:
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B. 
C. 
D. 
5.
This man was a Senator from Illinois;he was instrumental behind getting the Compromise of 1850 passed, and was the force behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act:
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B. 
C. 
D. 
6.
This was the name given to the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs:
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B. 
C. 
D. 
7.
The Nullification Crisis concerned the issue of:
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B. 
C. 
D. 
8.
The author of the South Carolina Exposition and Protest was:
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B. 
C. 
D. 
9.
The court case in which the Supreme Court delivered a ruling stating that President Jackson did not have the power to force the removal of the Cherokee Indian Tribe:
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B. 
C. 
Cherokee Nation v. the U.S.
D. 
10.
The name of the political party which formed in opposition to "King Andrew" Jackson:
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B. 
C. 
D. 
11.
Measure introduced by Stephen Douglas and passed in 1854 which organized the lands west of Iowa and Missouri on the basis of popular sovereignty, thus negating the Missouri Compromise
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B. 
American Temperance Society
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D. 
12.
An area of southern New Mexico and Arizona which was bought by the United States from Mexico in 1853 in order to build a transcontinental railroad linking the Deep South with the Pacific coast.
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B. 
Nullification Controversy
C. 
D. 
13.
Organization founded in 1826 which was dedicated to abstinence, that is, the total elimination of the consumption of alcohol. Its efforts significantly reduced the volume of alcoholic consumption in the United States.
A. 
American Temperance Society
B. 
C. 
D. 
14.
Decisive battle of the Texas Revolution in which the Texans under the command of Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna’s Mexican army and gained their independence.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
15.
The civil war in Kansas that occurred in 1856 following the sack of Lawrence and the massacre of Pottawatomie Creek
16.
Federal measure designed to assure that runaway slaves were returned to their masters. Its enforcement outraged northerners who viewed it as a threat to individual liberties.
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B. 
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
C. 
D. 
17.
The concept, first popular in the 1840s, that the United States had the God-given right and duty to expand across the North American continent.
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B. 
Nullification Controversy
C. 
D. 
18.
Jacksons announcement that the government would accept only gold and silver in payment for public lands. Its deflationary consequences helped cause the Panic of 1837.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
19.
Meeting convened in 1848 in New York by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to discuss problems confronting women, which issued the Declaration of Sentiments concerning the treatment of women and inaugurated the women’s right movement.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
20.
Diplomatic document issued in 1854 by U.S. ministers in Europe that proposed the acquisition of Cuba by whatever means necessary
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B. 
Nullification Controversy
C. 
D. 
21.
The third party organized in 1854 which replaced the Whigs and was opposed to the expansion of slavery, anit-Catholic, reform oriented, and in favor of federal efforts to promote commerce and industry.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
SC Exposition and Protest
22.
The forced removal of the Cherokee west of the Mississippi River. The U.S. army escorted the tribes from their ancestral lands. Many died on the way.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
23.
Supreme Court decision of 1857 which declared that slaves were not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
24.
The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention was women's right to vote.
25.
In the second party system, Whigs usually represented the wealthier people, Democrats the poorer.