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Circle the appropriate response
1. An unreasonable usually unfavorable opinion of another group that is not based in fact.
a. Prejudice
b. Racism
c. Segregation
d. Bias
2. This Harriet Beecher Stowe novel presented a vivid picture of slavery in the South that Northern readers found convincing.
a. The Liberator
b. The Underground Railroad
c. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
d. The Emancipator
3. The United States acquired Texas after winning this war, which is referred to by Mexicans as the North American invasion.
a. French and Indian War
b. Mexican-American War
c. War of Texas
d. The Alamo
4. The Mexican government sold 30,000 square miles of present day southern New Mexico and Arizona to the United States for $10 million in the
a. Louisiana Purchase
b. Northwest Ordinance
c. Arizona Purchase
d. Gadsden Purchase
5. Terms of this treaty stipulated that Mexico relinquish its claim to Texas and recognize the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas.
a. Treaty of 1863
b. Treaty of 1888
c. Guadalupe Hidalgo
d. Versailles Treaty
6. This proposed Amendment to an 1846 bill stated that “as an expressed and fundamental condition of the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico…neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory.”
a. Wimot Proviso
b. 13th Amendment
c. Emancipation Proclamation
d. Fugitive Slave Act
7. To join or attach, as in the joining of a new territory to an existing country.
a. Annex
b. Secede
c. Align
d. Segregate
8. The Civil War occurred because politicians could not solve the question of ______.
a. Taxation
b. States’ Rights
c. Popular Sovereignty
d. Slavery
9. Political Party formed prior to the election of 1848 by members of both the Democratic and Whig parties that opposed slavery in the territories.
a. Free Soil Party
b. Jefferson Republicans
c. Democratic Republicans
d. Abolitionist Party
10. Plan of five separate laws proposed by Henry Clay seeking a middle ground on the slavery debate.
a. Missouri Compromise
b. Compromise of 1850
c. Great Compromise
d. Compromise of 1820
11. Ordered all citizens of the United States to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped from their masters.
a. Emancipation Proclamation
b. Fugitive Slave Act
c. Freedman’s Act
d. Townshend Act
12. This South Carolina senator believed that southern states had the right to leave the Union if succession were necessary for their own protection.
a. Stonewall Jackson
b. John Calhoun
c. Daniel Webster
d. Storm Thurmond
13. Bill introduced in Congress in 1854 by Stephen Douglas in an attempt to win the support of both Northerners and Southerners.
a. Kansas-Nebraska Act
b. Fugitive Slave Act
c. Dredd Scott Act
d. Townshend Act
14. Letting the people in a territory decide whether to allow slavery there.
a. Emancipation Proclamation
b. Fugitive Slave Act
c. Popular Sovereignty
d. Townshend Act
15. Label given to territory in which looting in Lawrence and John Brown’s brutal response sparked a summer of murderous raids and counter raids.
a. Oregon Trail
b. Bleeding Kansas
c. The Alamo
d. Lower South