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Why was the Free-Soil Party created?
a) Created to prevent slavery in the Western Territories
b) Created to protect pro-slavery rights
c) Created to support the Homestead Act
d) Created to help California become a free state

What effect did hydraulic mining have on the environment?
a) No effect, natural erosion technique
b) No effect, used subsurface water to dissolve gold and bring it to the surface
c) Extremely harmful, caused disastrous erosion of hillsides that is still recovering today
d) Extremely harmful, introduced toxic chemicals to the soil such as mercury

Where did the South hold most political power in the late 1840’s and early 1850’s?
a) Presidency
b) Presidency and Senate
c) Presidency and House
d) Presidency and Supreme Court

What was the major concession to the South in the Compromise of 1850?
a) Kansas became a slave state
b) Slavery abolished in Washington, DC
c) Fugitive Slave Laws
d) Land in the Caribbean was seceded to the South

What was the effect of the Election of 1852?
a) Collapse of national political parties
b) Parties aligned by section
c) Whig party collapses
d) all

What did the Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty do?
a) Created the Suez Canal
b) Reinforced Latin American feeling about the US by granting the US right to intervene in Central America
c) Formed an alliance between the US and Great Britain allowing them to intervene in South America
d) Created a slave state in Panama

What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase?
a) To create more slave states in the Southwest, reinforcing the Missouri Compromise
b) To create a new wagon trail to California
c) To provide access to the Sea of Cortes
d) To provide a right-of-way for a railroad to California

Why did Douglas support the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a) To organize the Midwest territories allowing a railroad to pass through to Chicago
b) Supported slavery in land agreed upon to be organized as free states
c) Wanted to stop the Gadsden Purchase in order to profit from a railroad terminus at Houston
d) Assumed Kansas would vote to be a free state ending the spread of slavery

Why did the North feel betrayed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a) Violated the Missouri Compromise
b) Violated the Compromise of 1850
c) Supported the creation of two new states
d) Created purely to help big business…namely railroads

What was the Republican Party platform
a) Pro-slave, demanded repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
b) Abolitionist, demanded repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
c) Pro-slave, supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Abolitionist, supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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