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Stephen A. Douglas

APUSH Brinkley Test Bank Ch. 13

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United States
Slavery in the United States
Bleeding Kansas
Missouri in the American Civil War
Second Party System
Stephen A. Douglas
Compromise
Diff utility
Dred Scott v. Sandford
James Buchanan
Kansas–Nebraska Act
Abolitionism

America: Past and Present, 9e (Divine et al.) Chapter 14 The Sectional Crisis 14.1 Multiple-Choice Questions 1) In 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, almost beat Senator ________ of Massachusetts to death. A) Thaddeus Stevens B) John C. Calhoun C) Charles Sumner D) Zachary Taylor E) William Graham Sumner Answer: C Diff: 1 Page Ref: 330 [Factual] 2) The term "second party system" describes A) the splinter parties of the 1840s and 1850s. B) the vigorous competition between Whigs and Democrats. C) the creation of a new, third, political party. D) the political party not in power in government. E) a total shift in American politics. Answer: B Diff: 1 Page Ref: 332 [Factual]

Practice Test 1.4

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History of North America
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African slave trade
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Confederate States of America
Stephen A. Douglas

AP US HISTORY 1.4 01. Which of the following statements is true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? (A) It led to the disintegration of the Democratic party (B) It was a measure that the South had been demanding for decades (C) It led directly to the formation of the Republican Party (D) By applying "Popular sovereignty" to territories formerly closed to slavery by the Missouri Compromise, it succeeded in maintaining the tenuous sectional peace that had been created by the Compromise of 1850 (E) It assured that its sponsor, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, would receive the 1856 Democratic presidential nomination.
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