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- What distinguished John Brown from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison andFrederick Douglass?
- By casting their ballots for the Constitutional Unionist candidate John Bell in the 1860election, what did people in Virginia and Kentucky fear?
- Even though the West was often depicted in popular literature of the early nineteenth centuryas a violent place, in the minds of many Americans it also symbolized the nation's core value.That value was
- Who in Congress questioned President Polk's right to declare war on Mexico based on thespot where the conflict started?
- 36. In the 1860 election, how many different presidential candidates won electoral votes?
- What 1854 document called for the United States to seize or purchase Cuba?
- 14. In 1854, the Know- Nothings won all the congressional races as well as the governorship in:
- Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raidon the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859
- One of the main issues in James K. Polk's 1844 presidential campaign was the Democraticparty's commitment to
- After passage of the Colonization Law of 1824 by the Mexican government, the Mexicanstate of Coahuila y Texas stipulated that, to be eligible for land grants, foreigners
- 17. By 1856, the Republican Party formed from a coalition of the following political groups EXCEPT:
- In the presidential election of 1860, the two candidates who received the most votes in thesouthern states were:
- How did the territory acquired from the Mexican War promote Thomas Jefferson's earlier ideaof an Empire of Liberty?
- What American naval officer negotiated a treaty that opened two Japanese ports to U.S. shipsin 1854?
- When "Fifty-four forty or fight" did not result in gaining all of the Pacific Northwest, whomost likely would have been the angriest?
- 3. The Wilmot Proviso, admission of California into the Union, and the Missouri Compromise
- Which two political figures agreed to keep the issue of annexing Texas out of the 1844presidential campaign if possible?
- 15. Why were the Know- Nothings unable to curb the political influence of Irish immigrants?
- 5. Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
- Which of the following are generally recognized as having been the first white migrants alongthe Oregon Trail?