APUSH Period 5 Post Test

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11th President of the United States he was a strong advocate of "Manifest Destiny" adding more than a million square miles of western lands to the United States during his presidency.

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James K Polk

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Land ceded by Mexico to the United States following the Mexican-American War. The territory included the future states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

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Mexican Cession

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Proposal to prohibit slavery in land acquired from the Mexican Cession. It passed the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate.

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Wilmot Proviso

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The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

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was focused largely on the sole issue of preventing the expansion of slavery into new territory

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Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850? A stricter fugitive slave act was enacted, California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state, The southwest territories would determine their free vs slave status via popular sovereignty.

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Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state

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What law helped southern slaveholders get their runaway slaves back? Options: Fugitive Slave Act, Runaway Act, 2nd Amendment, Slaveholder Law

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Fugitive Slave Act

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act introduced popular sovereignty to

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allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery would be permitted there

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The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

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held that the federal government could not regulate slavery in the territories

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The purpose of John Brown's raid was to....

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start a slave revolt

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Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he:

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feared losing the support of the slaveholding border states within the Union.