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Answer the following question TRUE or FALSE: Transcendentalism was a cultural movement in the mid-
19th century. It rejected the philosophy of individualism and advocated a utopian-type of living for Americans.
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Andrew Jackson was considered a controversial president primarily because
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he was very lenient on ex-Confederate leaders during Reconstruction
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he inherited the presidency from Abraham Lincoln and had never actually been elected
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used the U.S. military to forcibly remove Native Americans from their ancestral
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vetoed the re-chartering of the National Bank, thus setting the economy up for future
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In 1846, David Wilmot, a Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania, issued his Wilmot Proviso,
which proposed
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any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American War be off limits to slavery
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Missouri’s southern border be extended to the Pacific Ocean
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that California could enter the Union as a “free” state but the South must be granted a
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fugitive slave law that was tough on runaway slaves and the people who harbored them
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any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American War be off limits to slavery
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the people living in the western territories would decide for themselves whether or not
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The Black Codes were primarily designed
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to restore slavery in everything but name
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protect the pre-war white supremacist power structure
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protect ex-Confederates from being prosecuted as traitors
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to ensure runaway slaves would have little chance of escaping to Canada
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proclaimed that Congress had no authority to regulate the institution of slavery in the West
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proclaimed that Congress had no authority to regulate the institution of slavery in the West
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and, therefore, slave owners could take their slaves anywhere in the Union, including the
western territories
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proclaimed that the plaintiff, the enslaved Dred Scott, was a free man because he had lived
in Illinois, a “free” state, for the past seven years
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stated that Congress had the authority to regulate slavery in the western territories and that
slave owners in places like Missouri had violated federal law and had to emancipate their
slaves immediately
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popular sovereignty was unconstitutional because it violated the First Amendment
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went on to found the Mormon faith and organized his followers into a communal society,
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went on to found the Mormon faith and organized his followers into a communal society,
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went on to found the Mormon faith and organized his followers into an individualist
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believed that Mormon workers should be granted allowed to take every Saturday off as it
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founded the Mormon faith, which demanded an abolition of slavery, political and civil
rights for American women, and a constitutional ban on polygamy
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Waltham’s power looms were spinning machines that
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all of the above
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helped usher in the Industrial Revolution in America
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transformed life in Boston, Lowell, and the rest of the New England region
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made it easier to produce textiles, drove up the demand for cotton, and thus, expanded
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increased America’s industrial capacity but also led to increased class conflict (workers
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The Gettysburg address is one of the most important speeches in American history primarily because
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it changed the nature of the Civil War from a war to preserve the Union to a war to end
slavery
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it offered a compromise to the South in the Civil War whereby if the Confederacy
surrendered, Abraham Lincoln would allow them to take slavery to Nebraska
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it changed the nature of the Civil War from a war to preserve the Union to a war to end
slavery
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it outlawed slavery in the United States and created a two-front war for the Confederacy in
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provided justification to Abraham Lincoln to use force to prevent South Carolina and other
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In 1854 Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The terms of this act
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gave voters in the future states of Kansas and Nebraska the right to vote for or against the
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gave voters in the future states of Kansas and Nebraska the right to vote for or against the
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allowed Kansas and Nebraska to become states as long as they outlawed slavery
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said that Kansas could become a free state but Nebraska would have to be a slave state in
order to preserve the balance of power in Congress
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said that Congress had no authority to outlaw slavery in the western territories and,
therefore, slave owners could take their slaves anywhere
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Answer the following question TRUE or FALSE: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was resisted by Tecumshe and
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