Answer:
1. Which choice could be a slogan for "Jacksonian Democracy"?
Answer: Powerful president, common man!
2. Abolitionists spoke out against slavery.
Who were two important people in the abolition movement?
Answer: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman
3. Which area did the United States acquire in the 1840s, and how did it acquire the land?
Answer: Spain ceded the Louisiana Territory to the United States as part of a peace treaty.
4. What did a sense of optimism and their religious beliefs encourage many Americans to do during the early nineteenth century?
Answer: to work in social reform movements
5. Which word describes reformer's efforts to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption?
Answer: temperance
6. What was the chief goal of the Compromise of 1850?
Answer: to keep the United States together
7. Which ruling did the Supreme Court make in the Dred Scott decision?
Answer: Slaves were property.
8. What helped bring Abraham Lincoln to national prominence?
Answer: Lincoln's debates with Stephen Douglas
9. What was not an element of Abraham Lincoln's platform in 1860?
Answer: making slavery legal in U.S. territories
10. Which state was the first to secede from the Union and on what grounds?
Answer: South Carolina, because it thought the federal government violated its obligations to the states
11. What best describes Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Oregon during the Civil War?
Answer: Union States
12. What is an accurate description of an advantage held by one side at the beginning of the Civil War?
Answer: The North's well-established government gave it a distinct advantage.
13. What was a result of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer: The goal of the war changed from saving the Union to saving the Union and eliminating slavery.
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