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  1. Settlers from overseas who came to America in search of freedom and a better way of life.
  2. Your answer:
    Temperance movement
    Immigrants
    Popular sovereignty
    Literate


  3. Supreme Court decision that made slavery legal in any federal territory.
  4. Your answer:
    Temperance movement
    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Fugitive Slave Act
    Dredd Scott v. Sanford


  5. Law passed in 1854 that opened the West to slavery.
  6. Your answer:
    Gadsden Purchase
    Temperance Movement
    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Fugitive Slave Act


  7. Term used to describe people who are able to read and to write.
  8. Your answer:
    Immigrants
    Nathaniels
    Literate
    Temperance


  9. Reform group of the mid-1899's that led some states to pass laws restricting the sale and the use of liquor.
  10. Your answer:
    Literacy movement
    Temperance movement
    the untouchables
    Popular sovereignty


  11. American writer who felt that people should not be restricted by their society or by their government.
  12. Your answer:
    Sanford & Son
    Dred Scott
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Henry David Thoreau


  13. American who wrote The House of the Seven Gables.
  14. Your answer:
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Henry David Thoreau
    Dred Scott
    Gabe Sevenhouse


  15. Land bought from Mexico in 1853 to be used as a possible route for a southern transcontinental railroad.
  16. Your answer:
    Popular Sovereignty
    Temperance movement
    Union Pacific Purchase
    Gadsen Purchase


  17. Law passed in 1850 that was designed to stop slaves from escaping to the North.
  18. Your answer:
    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Dred Scott v. Sanford
    Gadsden Purchase
    Fugitive Slave Act


  19. Right of territorial citizens to decide if slavery would be allowed within their territories.
  20. Your answer:
    Gadsden Purchase
    Popular Sovereignty
    Fugitive Slave Act
    Temperance movement


  21. In 1852, slavery was shown at its worst in a book entitled ...
  22. Your answer:
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    The Scarlet Letter
    Leaves of Grass
    The Purple Letter


  23. Some government leaders supported a southern route for a transcontinental railroad partly because ...
  24. Your answer:
    they wanted to tie the North more closely to the South.
    they had riden on the Santa Fe el Capitan & Super Chief.
    the railroad would pass through lands already organized into states and territories.
    such a route would speed economic growth in the north.


  25. Most Europeans who came to America in the 1850's settled in the ...
  26. Your answer:
    West and in the South.
    Nebraska.
    South.
    North and in the West.


  27. In the 1850's, many Americans believed that one of the best ways to move up in society was to ...
  28. Your answer:
    receive an education.
    move to the South.
    move to Montana.
    travel to Europe.


  29. The lowest social class in the South in the mid-1800's was made up of ...
  30. Your answer:
    planters.
    slaves.
    farmers.
    teachers.


  31. Many southerners were suspicious of social reform during the mid-1800's because they believed that it ...
  32. Your answer:
    hurt the South's chances of building a transcontinental railroad.
    was a northern plan to weaken the South.
    was the work of conservatives.
    would strengthen only the North.


  33. The most powerful and outspoken reform movement of the mid-1800's was ...
  34. Your answer:
    public education.
    abolitionism.
    temperance.
    prison reform.


  35. During the mid-1850's, armed conflict between abolitionists and slaveowners broke out in ...
  36. Your answer:
    Kansas
    Nebraska
    New Mexico
    Alaska


  37. The Kansas-Nebraska Act ...
  38. Your answer:
    outlawed slavery north of 36degrees 30'.
    made Kansas & Nebraska switch places on the map.
    opened the land north of 36degrees 30' to slavery.
    outlawed slavery south of 36degrees 30'.


  39. By 1854, a new political party made up mainly of antislave northerners was formed and was called the ...
  40. Your answer:
    Whig Party
    Celebration of Learning Party
    Republican Party
    Democratic Party



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