<QUESTIONLIST> <QUESTION id='q1' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q2' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q3' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q4' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q5' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q6' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q7' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q8' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q9' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q10' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q11' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q12' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q13' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q14' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q15' class='QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q16' 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points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q49' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q50' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q51' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q52' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q53' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q54' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q55' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q56' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q57' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q58' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q59' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q60' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q61' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q62' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q63' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q64' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q65' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q66' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q67' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q68' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q69' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q70' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q71' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> </QUESTIONLIST> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q1'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Why did President Polk instigate a war with Mexico?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q1_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To gain the territories of California and New Mexico]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q1_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To move the border of Texas to the Rio Grande]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q1_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To gain a large piece of present-day Mexico]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q1_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q1_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q1_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q2'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Why was the war with Mexico notable?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q2_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The fact that the United States had an exceptionally strong navy]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q2_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The number of military leaders who made names for themselves in that conflict]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q2_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The extremely small number of U.S. casualties]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q2_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q2_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q2_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q3'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Wilmot Proviso sought to do which of the following?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q3_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Limit territorial expansion]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q3_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Prevent the Mexican war]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q3_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Guarantee the right of slavery in the territories]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q3_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q3_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q3_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q4'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following resulted from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q4_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The United States received California, New Mexico, and Texas from Mexico.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q4_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The border between Texas and Mexico was set at the Nueces River.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q4_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Mexico paid the United States $15 million for U.S. losses.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q4_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q4_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q4_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q5'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following occurred in the election of 1848?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q5_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Democrats nominated Lewis Cass, who believed in popular sovereignty.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q5_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Antislavery Democrats nominated Zachary Taylor.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q5_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Whig Party and its candidate, Zachary Taylor, denounced slavery.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q5_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Taylor won the election with a massive popular majority.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q5_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Taylor refused to run on the Democratic ticket.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q5_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q6'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Although some railroad lines were built in the South in the 1840s, southerners at midcentury still relied primarily on what mode of transportation?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q6_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[keelboats]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q6_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[iron-clad ships]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q6_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[steamboats]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q6_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[clipper ships]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q6_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[None of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q6_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q7'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following national political figures won the 1848 presidential election?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q7_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Martin Van Buren]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q7_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Zachary Taylor]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q7_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Lewis Cass]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q7_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[James K. Polk]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q7_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Winfield Scott]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q7_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q8'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What was the fate of most Forty-Niners who went to California in search of riches in the gold fields?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q8_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[They returned to their original homes broke and broken.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q8_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[They made just enough from their gold mining to continue searching for the big strike.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q8_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[They were families who had nothing to gain by moving to the new country.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q8_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[They went bust in the gold fields but remained in California and helped build up the territory.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q8_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both C and D]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q8_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q9'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following statements regarding Mormon migration is false?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q9_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[When Joseph Smith was killed, leadership of the Mormons passed to Brigham Young.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q9_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Because the Mormons left Illinois in a hurry, their westward migration was poorly planned and haphazard, and many died as a result.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q9_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The area around Great Salt Lake was irrigated to produce a thriving community.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q9_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Power was concentrated in the hands of a few church members.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q9_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these statements are accurate.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q9_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q10'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Mid-nineteenth-century Irish immigrants tended to be all of the following, except]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q10_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[wealthy.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q10_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Catholic.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q10_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[unskilled.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q10_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[young.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q10_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[single.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q10_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q11'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Most Germans who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1800s tended to be]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q11_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[shopkeepers.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q11_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[farmers.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q11_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[bakers.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q11_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[bankers.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q11_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[tailors.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q11_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q12'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Oneida Association serves as an example of a]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q12_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[secret political organization.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q12_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Quaker congregation.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q12_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[utopian society.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q12_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[women's rights group.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q12_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[craft guild.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q12_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q13'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Where was the first national convention for women's rights held?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q13_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q13_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Akron, Ohio]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q13_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q13_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Seneca Falls, New York]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q13_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Burlington, Vermont]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q13_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q14'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What was the main goal of those who convened the Seneca Falls Convention?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q14_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To see the franchise extended to women]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q14_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To organize women into domestic unions]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q14_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To encourage white and black women to work together]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q14_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To obtain protections for women in the workplace]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q14_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To open a national dialogue on the issue of women's rights]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q14_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q15'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What Herman Melville work is considered to be the greatest American novel of the nineteenth century?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q15_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Leaves of Grass]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q15_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Moby Dick]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q15_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Scarlet Letter]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q15_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Confidence Man]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q15_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The House of the Seven Gables]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q15_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q16'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What situation led to the Compromise of 1850?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q16_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[California's request to join the Union as a free state]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q16_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[A disagreement over the route for a transcontinental railroad]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q16_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[A proposal to abolish the slave trade in the nation's capital]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q16_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q16_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q16_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q17'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What thorny issue was raised by California's request to be admitted to the Union?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q17_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[What to do about the expansion of slavery]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q17_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Who would control California's gold]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q17_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whether war with Mexico would ensue]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q17_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whether territories could become states so quickly after winning territorial status]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q17_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whether Texas should be admitted at the same time]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q17_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q18'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Who was the original organizer of the Compromise of 1850?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q18_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[John C. Calhoun]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q18_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Henry Clay]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q18_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Lewis Cass]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q18_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Zachary Taylor]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q18_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[John Tyler]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q18_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q19'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Clay's Omnibus Bill included all of the following provisions except]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q19_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[slavery would be permitted in the District of Columbia.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q19_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[a stronger fugitive slave law would be put into effect.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q19_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[California would be admitted as a free state.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q19_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[slavery would be permitted in the other territories acquired from Mexico.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q19_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[the slave trade would be ended in Washington, D.C.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q19_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q20'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Compromise of 1850 became law in part because]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q20_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[President Millard Fillmore supported the bill.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q20_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[John C. Calhoun died.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q20_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Stephen A. Douglas brokered a new compromise.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q20_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[components of the compromise were steered through committees and votes were cast separately.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q20_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q20_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q21'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What was the most problematic aspect of the Compromise of 1850?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q21_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The exclusion of slavery from California]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q21_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The banning of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q21_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Fugitive Slave Act]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q21_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The banning of slavery in the territories of the Southwest]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q21_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The banning of slavery in the nation's capital]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q21_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q22'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q22_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Simon Legree]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q22_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q22_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q22_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[James Russell Lowell]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q22_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Frederick Douglass]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q22_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q23'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following best describes the attitudes of white northerners toward African Americans in the early 1850s?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q23_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Rigid and paternalistic]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q23_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Confused and ambivalent]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q23_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Open and accepting]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q23_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Tolerant but condescending]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q23_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Puzzled but unafraid]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q23_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q24'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Franklin Pierce, winner of the 1852 presidential election, was a member of which political party?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q24_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whig]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q24_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Republican]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q24_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Democratic]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q24_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Know-Nothing]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q24_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Nativist]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q24_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q25'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which political party was formed in the mid-1800s to support giving "native Americans" preference over newcomers?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q25_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whig]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q25_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Know-Nothing]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q25_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Nativist]]></TEXT> 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</QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q27'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following statements regarding the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 is true?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q27_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It defined the final border of the continental United States.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q27_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It cost the United States $30 million.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q27_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It gave the United States a clear route for the building of the southern transcontinental railroad.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q27_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q27_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q27_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q28'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following statements regarding the Ostend Manifesto is true?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q28_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It was written in October 1854 by U.S. diplomats in Europe.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q28_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Its proponents wanted the administration to gain Cuba peacefully or by force.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q28_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It was leaked to the press and the Pierce administration was vilified.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q28_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It was publicly renounced by President Pierce.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q28_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these statements are true.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q28_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q29'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[According to the principle of popular sovereignty, which of the following would be allowed?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q29_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Congress would determine whether a territory would have slavery.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q29_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Supreme Court would determine whether a territory would have slavery.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q29_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Settlers would determine whether a territory would have slavery.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q29_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Slavery would be mandated in all new territories.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q29_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Slavery would be excluded from all new territories.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q29_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q30'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in which of the following?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q30_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It united the Democratic Party.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q30_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It invalidated the Missouri Compromise.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q30_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It established the concept of popular sovereignty.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q30_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It strengthened the Know-Nothing Party.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q30_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q30_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q31'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following occurred before the declaration of war against Mexico in 1846?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q31_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[General Zachary Taylor's troops crossed the Nueces River.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q31_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[A skirmish took place between Mexican and U.S. troops on the north side of the Rio Grande.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q31_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[U.S. troops seized Santa Fe in New Mexico.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q31_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q31_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q31_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q32'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[In what decade was the city of Chicago finally connected to the East by rail?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q32_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[1820s]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q32_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[1830s]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q32_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[1840s]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q32_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[1850s]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q32_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q33'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of these sets of events occurred in the same year?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q33_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Seneca Falls Convention and the founding of the Oneida Association]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q33_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Mormon migration to Utah and the California Gold Rush]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q33_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Mexican War ended and Uncle Tom's Cabin was published]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q33_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Gadsden Purchase and the end of the Mexican War]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q33_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q34'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[By the time the crisis of 1850 threatened to tear the nation apart, which of the following events had already occurred?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q34_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q34_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Henry David Thoreau published Walden.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q34_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Seneca Falls Convention had been held.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q34_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q34_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[None of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q34_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q35'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The war with Mexico was popular with people in all parts of the United States.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q35_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q35_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q35_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q36'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Conscience Whigs were Whigs who were opposed to slavery.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q36_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q36_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q36_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q37'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Over a ten-year period, Chicago changed from a city with no railroads to one in which twelve railroad lines converged.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q37_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q37_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q37_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q38'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Fifteen years after Joseph Smith was killed by a mob in 1844, Brigham Young led the entire Mormon population in a mass migration to Utah.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q38_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q38_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q38_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q39'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott forged a friendship when they first met at the Seneca Falls Convention.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q39_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q39_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q39_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q40'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Many conservative women chose indirect ways to influence legislation and thus saw little need to fight for the right to vote.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q40_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q40_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q40_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q41'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, though considered by some to be an obscene work, received great public recognition when it was first released.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q41_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q41_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q41_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q42'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Southern Whigs nominated Zachary Taylor for president in 1840 because they assumed he would support the spread of slavery.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q42_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q42_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q42_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q43'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The young prominent U.S. representative from Illinois who played a major role in bringing about the Compromise of 1850 was Abraham Lincoln.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q43_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q43_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q43_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q44'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: This 1846 provision¾introduced in Congress but never enacted¾would have kept slavery out of any territory that might be won from Mexico as a result of war]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q44_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Wilmot Proviso]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q45'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Treaty ending the war with Mexico in 1848, in which Mexico agreed to sell California and New Mexico to the United States and to give up all claim to Texas in exchange for $15 million]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q45_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q46'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Name given to antislavery Whigs]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q46_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Conscience Whigs]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q47'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: National political party that nominated Martin Van Buren for president in 1848, and adopted the stirring motto "fight on and fight forever" during the campaign]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q47_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Free-Soil Party]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q48'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Owner of the land in California where gold was first discovered in 1848]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q48_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[John Sutter]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q49'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Term for those who flooded into California hoping to make their fortune in the gold fields]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q49_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Forty-Niners]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q50'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Mormon leader responsible for the Mormons' migration to the Great Salt Lake area that would later become Utah]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q50_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Brigham Young]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q51'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Caused by a potato blight in Ireland that starved over 1 million people and led almost 2 million more to migrate to the United States]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q51_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Great Potato Famine]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q52'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: New York Utopian experiment noted for its unconventional views on free love and "complex marriage"; name lives on as a silverware corporation]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q52_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Oneida Association]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q53'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Along with Lucretia Mott, she helped organize the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q53_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q54'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: The first national convention held to promote women's rights, it was held in New York in 1848]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q54_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Seneca Falls Convention]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q55'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne as an allegory of revenge and its effects]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q55_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Scarlet Letter]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q56'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Author of one of the greatest U.S. novels, Moby Dick]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q56_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Herman Melville]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q57'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: American poet, known best for his anthology, Leaves of Grass]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q57_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Walt Whitman]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q58'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Proposed after months of debate by Stephen A. Douglas and passed by Congress when California asked to join the Union as a free state]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q58_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Compromise of 1850]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q59'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: An 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that provided a compelling description of the evils of slavery, thereby aiding the abolition movement]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q59_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q60'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Political party formed in the early 1850s by nativists opposed to immigration]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q60_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Know-Nothings]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q61'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Deal in which the United States paid Mexico $15 million for the strip of land that finished the "building" of the United States and gave the country its final border with Mexico]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q61_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Gadsden Purchase]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q62'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Written by U.S. diplomats in Europe, this was a proposal to take Cuba from Spain by any means necessary; created such a political firestorm that President Pierce renounced it completely]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q62_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Ostend Manifesto]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q63'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Political compromise of 1854 that invalidated the Missouri Compromise, instituted popular sovereignty in the territories, settled on a northern route for the transcontinental railroad, and inflamed people throughout the country]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q63_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Kansas-Nebraska Act]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q64'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: The concept of allowing residents within a territory to decide whether to allow slavery therein]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q64_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[popular sovereignty]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q65'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[How did the war with Mexico inflame public opinion in the United States? Identify the leading critics of the war and discuss their justifications for their opposition. Describe the outcome of the war, and explain the impact this had on U.S. politics.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q65_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q66'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Discuss the extent to which the gold rush of 1849 was symbolic of U.S. expansion in the 1840s in terms of the participants and their motivation, and the impact such expansion had on the U.S. economy and society. Using the same criteria, compare and contrast the gold rush with the Mormon exodus to the West.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q66_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q67'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What convinced Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to begin the women's rights movement? Identify their goals, discuss the tactics and strategies they employed to achieve their objectives, and evaluate the success of the Seneca Falls Convention. Discuss how the women's rights movement intersected with the abolitionist movement.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q67_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q68'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Discuss the issues that led to the eventual demise of the Whig Party in the 1840s and 1850s. Identify the challenges the party faced during its short political tenure, and discuss the implications that the removal of the Whig Party from the U.S. political landscape would have on the future health of the nation.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q68_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q69'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Discuss northern attitudes toward African Americans, and explain how these feelings changed over time. Evaluate the extent to which northerners shared southern prejudices against African Americans.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q69_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q70'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Trace the development of American literature during the mid-1800s with regard to the three literary giants of the period: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. Discuss the contribution each made to American literature and society during this period.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q70_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q71'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Discuss the Kansas-Nebraska Act in regard to its key components, the problems it presented to northerners, the ways in which it inflamed public opinion, and the effect it had on U.S. politics.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q71_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION

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points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q67' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q68' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q69' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q70' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> <QUESTION id='q71' class='QUESTION_ESSAY' points='1'/> </QUESTIONLIST> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q1'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Why did President Polk instigate a war with Mexico?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q1_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To gain the territories of California and New Mexico]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q1_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To move the border of Texas to the Rio Grande]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q1_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To gain a large piece of present-day Mexico]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q1_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q1_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q1_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q2'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Why was the war with Mexico notable?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q2_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The fact that the United States had an exceptionally strong navy]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q2_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The number of military leaders who made names for themselves in that conflict]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q2_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The extremely small number of U.S. casualties]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q2_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q2_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q2_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q3'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Wilmot 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Democrats nominated Zachary Taylor.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q5_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Whig Party and its candidate, Zachary Taylor, denounced slavery.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q5_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Taylor won the election with a massive popular majority.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q5_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Taylor refused to run on the Democratic ticket.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q5_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q6'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Although some railroad lines were built in the South in the 1840s, southerners at midcentury still relied primarily on what mode of transportation?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q6_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[keelboats]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q6_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[iron-clad ships]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q6_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[steamboats]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q6_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[clipper ships]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q6_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[None of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q6_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q7'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following national political figures won the 1848 presidential election?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q7_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Martin Van Buren]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q7_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Zachary Taylor]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q7_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Lewis Cass]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q7_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[James K. Polk]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q7_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Winfield Scott]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q7_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q8'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What was the fate of most Forty-Niners who went to California in search of riches in the gold fields?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q8_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[They returned to their original homes broke and broken.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q8_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[They made just enough from their gold mining to continue searching for the big strike.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q8_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[They were families who had nothing to gain by moving to the new country.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q8_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[They went bust in the gold fields but remained in California and helped build up the 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few church members.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q9_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these statements are accurate.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q9_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q10'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Mid-nineteenth-century Irish immigrants tended to be all of the following, except]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q10_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[wealthy.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q10_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Catholic.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q10_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[unskilled.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q10_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[young.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q10_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[single.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q10_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q11'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Most Germans who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1800s tended to be]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q11_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[shopkeepers.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q11_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[farmers.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q11_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[bakers.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q11_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[bankers.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q11_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[tailors.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q11_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q12'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Oneida Association serves as an example of a]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q12_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[secret political organization.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q12_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Quaker congregation.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q12_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[utopian society.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q12_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[women's rights group.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q12_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[craft guild.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q12_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q13'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Where was the first national convention for women's rights held?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q13_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q13_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Akron, Ohio]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q13_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q13_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Seneca Falls, New York]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q13_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Burlington, Vermont]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q13_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q14'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What was the main goal of those who convened the Seneca Falls Convention?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q14_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To see the franchise extended to women]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q14_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To organize women into domestic unions]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q14_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To encourage white and black women to work together]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q14_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To obtain protections for women in the workplace]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q14_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[To open a national dialogue on the issue of women's rights]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q14_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q15'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What Herman Melville work is considered to be the greatest American novel of the nineteenth century?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q15_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Leaves of Grass]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q15_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Moby Dick]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q15_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Scarlet Letter]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q15_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Confidence Man]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q15_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The House of the Seven Gables]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q15_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q16'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What situation led to the Compromise of 1850?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q16_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[California's request to join the Union as a free state]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q16_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[A disagreement over the route for a transcontinental railroad]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q16_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[A proposal to abolish the slave trade in the nation's capital]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q16_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q16_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q16_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q17'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What thorny issue was raised by California's request to be admitted to the Union?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q17_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[What to do about the expansion of slavery]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q17_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Who would control California's gold]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q17_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whether war with Mexico would ensue]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q17_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whether territories could become states so quickly after winning territorial status]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q17_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whether Texas should be admitted at the same time]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q17_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q18'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Who was the original organizer of the Compromise of 1850?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q18_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[John C. Calhoun]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q18_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Henry Clay]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q18_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Lewis Cass]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q18_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Zachary Taylor]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q18_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[John Tyler]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q18_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q19'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Clay's Omnibus Bill included all of the following provisions except]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q19_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[slavery would be permitted in the District of Columbia.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q19_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[a stronger fugitive slave law would be put into effect.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q19_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[California would be admitted as a free state.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q19_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[slavery would be permitted in the other territories acquired from Mexico.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q19_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[the slave trade would be ended in Washington, D.C.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q19_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q20'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Compromise of 1850 became law in part because]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q20_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[President Millard Fillmore supported the bill.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q20_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[John C. Calhoun died.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q20_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Stephen A. Douglas brokered a new compromise.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q20_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[components of the compromise were steered through committees and votes were cast separately.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q20_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q20_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q21'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What was the most problematic aspect of the Compromise of 1850?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q21_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The exclusion of slavery from California]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q21_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The banning of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q21_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Fugitive Slave Act]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q21_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The banning of slavery in the territories of the Southwest]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q21_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The banning of slavery in the nation's capital]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q21_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q22'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q22_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Simon Legree]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q22_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q22_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q22_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[James Russell Lowell]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q22_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Frederick Douglass]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q22_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q23'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following best describes the attitudes of white northerners toward African Americans in the early 1850s?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q23_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Rigid and paternalistic]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q23_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Confused and ambivalent]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q23_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Open and accepting]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q23_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Tolerant but condescending]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q23_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Puzzled but unafraid]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q23_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q24'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Franklin Pierce, winner of the 1852 presidential election, was a member of which political party?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q24_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whig]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q24_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Republican]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q24_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Democratic]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q24_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Know-Nothing]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q24_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Nativist]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q24_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q25'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which political party was formed in the mid-1800s to support giving "native Americans" preference over newcomers?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q25_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whig]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q25_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Know-Nothing]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q25_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Nativist]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q25_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Republican]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q25_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Anti-Mason]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q25_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q26'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Know-Nothings gained support for a time through the defections of many disgruntled members of which political party?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q26_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Republican]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q26_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Democratic]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q26_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Free-Soiler]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q26_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Whig]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q26_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Anti-Mason]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q26_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q27'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following statements regarding the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 is true?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q27_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It defined the final border of the continental United States.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q27_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It cost the United States $30 million.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q27_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It gave the United States a clear route for the building of the southern transcontinental railroad.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q27_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q27_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q27_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q28'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following statements regarding the Ostend Manifesto is true?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q28_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It was written in October 1854 by U.S. diplomats in Europe.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q28_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Its proponents wanted the administration to gain Cuba peacefully or by force.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q28_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It was leaked to the press and the Pierce administration was vilified.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q28_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It was publicly renounced by President Pierce.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q28_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these statements are true.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q28_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q29'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[According to the principle of popular sovereignty, which of the following would be allowed?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q29_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Congress would determine whether a territory would have slavery.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q29_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Supreme Court would determine whether a territory would have slavery.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q29_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Settlers would determine whether a territory would have slavery.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q29_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Slavery would be mandated in all new territories.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q29_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Slavery would be excluded from all new territories.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q29_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q30'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in which of the following?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q30_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It united the Democratic Party.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q30_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It invalidated the Missouri Compromise.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q30_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It established the concept of popular sovereignty.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q30_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[It strengthened the Know-Nothing Party.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q30_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q30_a5'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q31'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of the following occurred before the declaration of war against Mexico in 1846?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q31_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[General Zachary Taylor's troops crossed the Nueces River.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q31_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[A skirmish took place between Mexican and U.S. troops on the north side of the Rio Grande.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q31_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[U.S. troops seized Santa Fe in New Mexico.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q31_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both A and B]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q31_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Both B and C]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q31_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q32'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[In what decade was the city of Chicago finally connected to the East by rail?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q32_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[1820s]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q32_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[1830s]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q32_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[1840s]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q32_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[1850s]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q32_a4'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q33'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Which of these sets of events occurred in the same year?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q33_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Seneca Falls Convention and the founding of the Oneida Association]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q33_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Mormon migration to Utah and the California Gold Rush]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q33_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Mexican War ended and Uncle Tom's Cabin was published]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q33_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Gadsden Purchase and the end of the Mexican War]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q33_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE id='q34'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[By the time the crisis of 1850 threatened to tear the nation apart, which of the following events had already occurred?]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q34_a1' position='1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q34_a2' position='2'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Henry David Thoreau published Walden.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q34_a3' position='3'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Seneca Falls Convention had been held.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q34_a4' position='4'> <TEXT><![CDATA[All of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q34_a5' position='5'> <TEXT><![CDATA[None of these]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q34_a3'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_MULTIPLECHOICE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q35'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The war with Mexico was popular with people in all parts of the United States.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q35_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q35_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q35_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q36'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Conscience Whigs were Whigs who were opposed to slavery.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q36_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q36_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q36_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q37'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Over a ten-year period, Chicago changed from a city with no railroads to one in which twelve railroad lines converged.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q37_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q37_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q37_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q38'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Fifteen years after Joseph Smith was killed by a mob in 1844, Brigham Young led the entire Mormon population in a mass migration to Utah.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q38_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q38_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q38_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q39'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott forged a friendship when they first met at the Seneca Falls Convention.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q39_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q39_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q39_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q40'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Many conservative women chose indirect ways to influence legislation and thus saw little need to fight for the right to vote.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q40_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q40_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q40_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q41'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, though considered by some to be an obscene work, received great public recognition when it was first released.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q41_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q41_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q41_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q42'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Southern Whigs nominated Zachary Taylor for president in 1840 because they assumed he would support the spread of slavery.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q42_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q42_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q42_a1'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_TRUEFALSE id='q43'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[The young prominent U.S. representative from Illinois who played a major role in bringing about the Compromise of 1850 was Abraham Lincoln.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q43_a1'> <TEXT>True</TEXT> </ANSWER> <ANSWER id='q43_a2'> <TEXT>False</TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> <CORRECTANSWER answer_id='q43_a2'/> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_TRUEFALSE> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q44'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: This 1846 provision¾introduced in Congress but never enacted¾would have kept slavery out of any territory that might be won from Mexico as a result of war]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q44_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Wilmot Proviso]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q45'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Treaty ending the war with Mexico in 1848, in which Mexico agreed to sell California and New Mexico to the United States and to give up all claim to Texas in exchange for $15 million]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q45_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q46'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Name given to antislavery Whigs]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q46_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Conscience Whigs]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q47'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: National political party that nominated Martin Van Buren for president in 1848, and adopted the stirring motto "fight on and fight forever" during the campaign]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q47_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Free-Soil Party]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q48'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Owner of the land in California where gold was first discovered in 1848]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q48_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[John Sutter]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q49'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Term for those who flooded into California hoping to make their fortune in the gold fields]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q49_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Forty-Niners]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q50'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Mormon leader responsible for the Mormons' migration to the Great Salt Lake area that would later become Utah]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q50_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Brigham Young]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q51'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Caused by a potato blight in Ireland that starved over 1 million people and led almost 2 million more to migrate to the United States]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q51_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Great Potato Famine]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q52'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: New York Utopian experiment noted for its unconventional views on free love and "complex marriage"; name lives on as a silverware corporation]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q52_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Oneida Association]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q53'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Along with Lucretia Mott, she helped organize the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q53_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q54'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: The first national convention held to promote women's rights, it was held in New York in 1848]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q54_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Seneca Falls Convention]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q55'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne as an allegory of revenge and its effects]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q55_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[The Scarlet Letter]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q56'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Author of one of the greatest U.S. novels, Moby Dick]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q56_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Herman Melville]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q57'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: American poet, known best for his anthology, Leaves of Grass]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q57_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Walt Whitman]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q58'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Proposed after months of debate by Stephen A. Douglas and passed by Congress when California asked to join the Union as a free state]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q58_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Compromise of 1850]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q59'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: An 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that provided a compelling description of the evils of slavery, thereby aiding the abolition movement]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q59_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q60'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Political party formed in the early 1850s by nativists opposed to immigration]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q60_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Know-Nothings]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q61'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Deal in which the United States paid Mexico $15 million for the strip of land that finished the "building" of the United States and gave the country its final border with Mexico]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q61_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Gadsden Purchase]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q62'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Written by U.S. diplomats in Europe, this was a proposal to take Cuba from Spain by any means necessary; created such a political firestorm that President Pierce renounced it completely]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q62_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Ostend Manifesto]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q63'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: Political compromise of 1854 that invalidated the Missouri Compromise, instituted popular sovereignty in the territories, settled on a northern route for the transcontinental railroad, and inflamed people throughout the country]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q63_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Kansas-Nebraska Act]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q64'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Identify: The concept of allowing residents within a territory to decide whether to allow slavery therein]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q64_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[popular sovereignty]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q65'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[How did the war with Mexico inflame public opinion in the United States? Identify the leading critics of the war and discuss their justifications for their opposition. Describe the outcome of the war, and explain the impact this had on U.S. politics.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q65_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q66'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Discuss the extent to which the gold rush of 1849 was symbolic of U.S. expansion in the 1840s in terms of the participants and their motivation, and the impact such expansion had on the U.S. economy and society. Using the same criteria, compare and contrast the gold rush with the Mormon exodus to the West.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q66_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q67'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[What convinced Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to begin the women's rights movement? Identify their goals, discuss the tactics and strategies they employed to achieve their objectives, and evaluate the success of the Seneca Falls Convention. Discuss how the women's rights movement intersected with the abolitionist movement.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q67_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q68'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Discuss the issues that led to the eventual demise of the Whig Party in the 1840s and 1850s. Identify the challenges the party faced during its short political tenure, and discuss the implications that the removal of the Whig Party from the U.S. political landscape would have on the future health of the nation.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q68_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q69'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Discuss northern attitudes toward African Americans, and explain how these feelings changed over time. Evaluate the extent to which northerners shared southern prejudices against African Americans.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q69_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q70'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Trace the development of American literature during the mid-1800s with regard to the three literary giants of the period: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. Discuss the contribution each made to American literature and society during this period.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q70_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> <QUESTION_ESSAY id='q71'> <BODY> <TEXT><![CDATA[Discuss the Kansas-Nebraska Act in regard to its key components, the problems it presented to northerners, the ways in which it inflamed public opinion, and the effect it had on U.S. politics.]]></TEXT> <FLAGS> <ISHTML value='true'/> <ISNEWLINELITERAL value='false'/> </FLAGS> </BODY> <ANSWER id='q71_a1'> <TEXT><![CDATA[Answers will vary.]]></TEXT> </ANSWER> <GRADABLE> </GRADABLE> </QUESTION_ESSAY> </POOL>