APUSH 5.5

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Nativism is

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favoring the rights of native born citizens over immigrants

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What was the Underground Railroad?

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Secret routes that runaway slaves used to reach freedom.

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Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

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urban areas of the North

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Which of the following did NOT contribute to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s? Uncle Tom’s Cabin drew enthusiastic audiences of Northern readers and theatergoers., Groups like the New England Emigrant Aid Company worked to make Kansas a free state., Some prominent Northern intellectuals like Henry David Thoreau praised John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry., Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade.

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Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade.

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The Irish immigrants of the 1840s faced discrimination in the US mainly because

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they were Roman Catholics

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During the 1850s, the Fugitive Slave Law

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increased tensions between the North and South