Chapter 14 - A Broken Nation

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What was the main goal of the Free-Soil Party?

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to keep slavery out of new territories and states

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What was the Pony Express?

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mail service between the East and the West

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Why did some plantation owners present the Ostend Manifesto to the U.S. government?

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They wanted Cuba to be a new slave state.

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Which event prompted John Brown’s attack on the Pottawatomie Creek settlement? Options: the passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the attack on Senator Charles Sumner, the violent proslavery raid in Lawrence, Kansas, the contested elections of the Free-Soil Party

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the violent proslavery raid in Lawrence, Kansas

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What was the main obstacle to Stephen A. Douglas's proposed Chicago-San Francisco railroad?

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The territory was not organized into states.

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Which senator, angered by an antislavery speech, physically attacked another senator?

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Charles Sumner

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Who did the Republicans nominate in the presidential election of 1856?

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John C. Frémont

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What reason did the judge in the Dred Scott case give for ruling that “members of the negro African race” did not have a right to sue?

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They were not actually U.S. citizens.

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Who was Jefferson Davis?

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the president of the Confederacy

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Who were the “team of rivals”?

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the men Lincoln appointed to his Cabinet