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True/False Quiz
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Question 1
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Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was notable for its accuracy and beautiful prose.
   
 
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Question 2
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Open Hint for Question 2 in a new window		 In the 1850 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, the United States and Great Britain agreed to demilitarize the Great Lakes.
   
 
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Question 3
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Open Hint for Question 3 in a new window		 Senator Stephen Douglas was the most prominent spokesman for the Young America movement in the 1850s.
   
 
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Question 4
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Open Hint for Question 4 in a new window		 Senator Stephen Douglas declared the institution of slavery was morally wrong.
   
 
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Question 5
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Open Hint for Question 5 in a new window		 The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the "greatest single step" toward secession and civil war.
   
 
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Question 6
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Open Hint for Question 6 in a new window		 In order to gain southern support for a transcontinental railroad, Stephen Douglas agreed to repeal the Missouri Compromise's prohibition of slavery north of 36° 30' in the new Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
   
 
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Question 7
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Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 The Republican party was an abolitionist party.
   
 
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Question 8
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Open Hint for Question 8 in a new window		 During the localized civil war in "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s, President Pierce supported the proslavery advocates in Kansas.
   
 
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Question 9
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Open Hint for Question 9 in a new window		 Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner vigorously insisted on the admission of Kansas to the Union as a free state.
   
 
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Question 10
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Open Hint for Question 10 in a new window		 President Buchanan recommended that Congress admit Kansas to the Union as a free state.
   
 
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Question 11
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Open Hint for Question 11 in a new window		 In his debate with Senator Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln not only condemned slavery as an immoral institution, he also condemned slaveowners as immoral individuals.
   
 
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Question 12
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Open Hint for Question 12 in a new window		 In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln expressed his support for the Fugitive Slave Law and endorsed the view that blacks were inferior to whites.
   
 
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Question 13
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Open Hint for Question 13 in a new window		 In the 1860 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln won a narrow majority of the vote in both the popular balloting and the electoral vote.
   
 
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Question 14
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Open Hint for Question 14 in a new window		 Concern for states' rights and a strict constructionist view of the Constitution were the most basic reasons why the South seceded from the Union.
   
 
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