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(Q021) The Fugitive Slave Act

allowed special federal commissioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without the benefit of a jury trial or testimony by the accused individual

(Q024) The first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupied a foreign capital was

the Mexican War.

(Q019) In the Compromise of 1850,

the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.

(Q042) In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize.

true

(Q023) The Republican Party, founded in 1854,

was a coalition of antislavery Democrats, northern Whigs, Know-Nothings, and Free Soilers.

(Q006) Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China

tripled

(Q001) In the early decades of the 1800s, the population living in Texas who were non-Indian and of Spanish origin were called

Tejanos

(Q012) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848

ended the Mexican War.

(Q047) By the 1840s, southern leaders were convinced that slavery must expand or die.

true

(Q016) In 1853-1854, President Millard Fillmore dispatched American warships to Japan under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry to

force a trade treaty with an outright demand that the Japanese deal with the United States.

(Q005) There were calls by some expansionists for the United States to annex all of Mexico, yet the movement failed because

the fear that the nation could not assimilate the large non-white Catholic population.

(Q051) By 1860, New York City had become the nation's financial, commercial, and manufacturing center.

true

(Q053) Lincoln shared many of the racial prejudices of his day, including opposing Illinois blacks the right to vote or serve on juries.

true

(Q015) The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of

the discovery of gold

(Q018) The Free Soil Party's platform called for

the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who wanted to homestead there.

(Q028) In response to the nomination of Stephen Douglas's Democratic candidacy, seven of the southern delegates

walked out of the convention

(Q008) The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called

manifest destiny

(Q039) The Know-Nothing Party was founded as a crusade against slavery.

false

(Q013) When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution

protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery.

(Q020) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

established the principal of popular sovereignty whereby the status of slavery would be determined.