APUSH chapter 18 true and false
Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to organize western territories so that a transcontinental railroad could be built along a northern route
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The provision of the Compromise of 1850 that aroused the fiercest northern opposition was the Fugitive Slave Law
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Democratic party politicians and others attempted to avoid the issue of slavery in the territories by saying it should be left to popular sovereignty
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Southerners demanded a more effective fugitive-slave law to stop the Underground Railroad from running escaped slaves to Canada
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act wrecked the Compromise of 1850 and created deep divisions within the Democratic Party
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The Pierce administration's expansionist efforts in Central America, Cuba, and the Gadsden Purchase were basically designed to serve southern proslavery interests
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The Republican Party was initially organized as a northern protest movement against Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act
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The Whig Party disappeared because its northern and southern wings were too deeply split over the Fugitive Slave Law and other sectional issues
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In negotiating the first American treaty with China in 1844, diplomat Caleb Cushing made sure that the United States followed a more culturally respectful policy than that of the imperialistic European great powers in China
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In the Senate debate of 1850, Calhoun and Webster each spoke for their respective sections in opposition to a compromise over slavery
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In the key provisions of the Compromise of 1850, New Mexico and Utah were admitted as slave states, while California was left open to popular sovereignty
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The Free Soil party consisted of a small, unified band of radical abolitionists
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The Ostend Manifesto was designed to secure a peaceful solution to the crisis between the United States and Spain over Cuba
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Both southerners and northerners were outraged by Douglas's plan to repeal the Missouri Compromise
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After the gold rush of 1849, California sought direct admission to the Union as a slave state
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