The Civil War Begins

Question 1

Land acquired through the Mexican Cession is located today in

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the southwestern US.

Question 2

An effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was that

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the Republican Party was formed.

Question 3

Which state did not leave the union during the Southern secession of 1861?

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Pennsylvania

Question 4

A result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was that

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the United States got control of the Mexican Cession.

Question 5

How did the Fugitive Slave Act affect the rights of free Black people in the North?

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It stripped them of their right to trial by jury.

Question 6

Which increased sectional tensions in the 1850s?

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the Fugitive Slave Act

Question 7

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act,

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people in each territory would vote on whether to allow slavery.

Question 8

After the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Dred Scott case, many people in the North believed that

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slavery might become legal everywhere.

Question 9

Many people moved to California in 1848 following

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the discovery of gold.

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