Question 2 (1 point)The opening of Japan to United States trade led to what?Question 2

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	Japan created its own minstrel shows.
	Other nations wanted to carve up Japanese territory.
	Japan became a modernized military power.
	The United States became much less interested in China.
	Japan attacked Russia.

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Question 4 (1 point)

Why were the Know-Nothings unable to curb the political influence of Irish immigrants?

Question 4 options:

	The pope interceded on the behalf of Catholics in America.
	Southern slaveholders protected the rights of immigrants.
	The Irish used their strong economic clout to gain political influence.
	After arriving in the United States, most of the Irish converted to Protestant faiths.
	Voting rights were being determined by race.

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Question 6 (1 point)

By casting their ballots for the Constitutional Unionist candidate John Bell in the 1860 election, what did people in Virginia and Kentucky fear?

Question 6 options:

	These voters were afraid that the South would not secede.
	These voters feared northern industrialists controlled too much of the economy.
	The voters did not want South Carolina to take the lead in creating a new government.
	The voters worried that an impending civil war would lead to war being fought in their respective states.
	The voters worried that if Stephen Douglas was elected, slavery would be eliminated immediately.

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Question 7 (1 point)

In regards to Fort Sumter, analyze the maneuvering of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Who was superior, Davis or Lincoln?

Question 7 options:

	Davis gained the most essential fort in the South.
	Lincoln was too weak-willed to be president.
	Lincoln failed to walk the tightrope.
	Lincoln made the South look like the aggressor.
	Davis was able to prevent a northern invasion of the Confederacy for two years.

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Question 11 (1 point)

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

Question 11 options:

	California would enter the Union as a free state.
	The slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C.
	The Oregon Territory would be created.
	A tougher fugitive slave law would be enacted.
	Territories created from the Mexican Cession would vote on whether to allow slavery.

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Question 14 (1 point)

By 1856, the Republican Party included individuals who had been, until rather recently, members of each of the following political groups EXCEPT:

Question 14 options:

	northern Whigs.
	Free Soilers.
	Know-Nothings.
	antislavery Democrats.
	Federalists.

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Question 15 (1 point)

The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for:

Question 15 options:

	U.S. president in 1856.
	U.S. president in 1860.
	governor of Illinois in 1858.
	a congressional seat from Illinois in 1856.
	U.S. senator from Illinois in 1858.

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Question 16 (1 point)

The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to:

Question 16 options:

	renominate President James Buchanan for a second term.
	protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them.
	impeach Chief Justice Roger Taney for the Dred Scott decision.
	endorse the acquisition of Cuba by the United States, thus increasing slave territory.
	immediately bring Kansas and Nebraska into the Union as slave states.

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Question 17 (1 point)

In the 1860 election, how many different presidential candidates won electoral votes?

Question 17 options:

	two
	three
	four
	five
	none, because the electoral college was suspended for that election.

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Question 18 (1 point)

In the presidential election of 1860, the two candidates who received the most votes in the southern states were:

Question 18 options:

	John Breckinridge and John Bell.
	Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
	Abraham Lincoln and John Breckinridge.
	William Seward and John Bell.
	Roger Taney and Stephen Douglas.

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Question 19 (1 point)

Which of the following puts these events in the proper chronological order, from first to last?
I. Virginia seceded from the Union.
II. Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
III. Confederate States of America formed.
IV. South Carolina seceded from the Union.

Question 19 options:

	IV, I, III, II
	III, I, IV, II
	II, I, III, IV
	I, II, III, IV
	II, IV, III, I

 

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