Period 5 Flashcard

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The territorial changes shown in the southwestern region of the map most directly resulted from.

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the Mexican-American War

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The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region shown in the map intensified controversies in the United States about

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allowing slavery in the new territories

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Which idea contributed most directly to the territorial changes shown in the map? Options: Abolitionism, Manifest Destiny, Popular sovereignty, Containment

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Manifest Destiny

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The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following? A decreasing gap in wealth because land ownership increased among White citizens, Decreasing tensions between White settlers and Native Americans because expanded United States territory undercut competition, Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories, Increasing legal immigration for Asians because the United States became a Pacific Rim country

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Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories

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Which of the following was a common justification in the United States for the trend depicted in the map?
The interest in greater access to trade with the British colonies in the Americas
The desire for better relations with Mexico
The intention to assimilate Plains Indians into White society
The belief in White cultural and political superiority

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The belief in White cultural and political superiority

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The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following? Options: Admitted Texas to the Union as a slave state., Admitted California to the Union under the principles of popular sovereignty., Prohibited slavery in the District of Columbia., Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law., Adjusted the Texas-Mexico boundary.

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Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law.

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Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct? It recognized the power of Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories, but refused on technical grounds to free Scott., It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States., It upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise., It upheld the principle of popular sovereignty., It freed Scott, but not other slaves in circumstances similar to Scott’s.

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It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

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The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

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

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The data in the tables indicate which of the following? Options: Confederate forces suffered more casualties than did Union forces, The Confederacy lost more of its skilled workers than did the Union, The Union lost a greater percentage of its population than did the Confederacy, Confederate armies lost a greater proportion of its soldiers than did the Union

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Confederate armies lost a greater proportion of its soldiers than did the Union

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In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT: higher protective tariffs, government subsidies for a transcontinental railroad, free western land for settlers who would live and work on it, the exclusion of slavery from United States territorial possessions, the abolition of slavery throughout the United States.

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the abolition of slavery throughout the United States