The Whig Party favored all of the following EXCEPT A) the Independent Treasury. B) rechartering the national bank. C) federally-funded internal improvements. D) high protective tariffs. ANSWER A
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In 1961, “freedom riders” who set out to desegregate interstate buses and bus terminals met the LEAST amount of resistance in A) Mississippi. B) South Carolina. C) Alabama. D) Virginia. ANSWER D
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Former slaves often tested their new freedom by A) legalizing their marriages. B) changing their names. C) moving from the plantation. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin provoked northern outrage over the implications of A) the Fugitive Slave Law. B) the Dred Scott decision. C) personal liberty laws. D) the Wilmot Proviso. ANSWER A
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Most physicians responded to the 1832 cholera epidemic by A) ordering the removal of trash and garbage from city streets. B) insisting on the cleaning of city water supplies. C) quarantining the victims. D) administering opium and mercury-based medications. ANSWER D
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Which one of the following is NOT related to the antiforeign, anti-Catholic sentiment that raged in the early 1850s? A) Young America B) nativists C) Know Nothings D) American party ANSWER A
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Like settlers in neighboring Virginia, settlers in Maryland A) were denied access to land patents. B) were granted some local self-government in a representative assembly. C) devoted their energies to trading cattle and Indian slaves to the West Indies. D) left England to escape religious persecution. ANSWER B
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American acquisition of Cuba was the goal of the A) northern free soilers. B) American party. C) Gadsden Purchase. D) Ostend Manifesto. ANSWER D
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Stephen A. Douglas’s motives for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Bill included all of the following EXCEPT A) he wanted to secure a right-of-way for a Chicago-to-Pacific Coast transcontinental railroad. B) he felt geography and climate would prevent slavery from ever extending into the Kansas-Nebraska Territory. C) he believed that popular sovereignty was not a workable solution […]
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What was an immediate consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? A) reunification of the Democratic Party B) organization of the Republican Party C) revival of the Whig Party D) All of the above. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
