"The Kansas – Nebraska Crisis" (pp. 617–627) |
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2. Summarize the passage in your own words. |
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3. What were the motivations for the Gadsden Purchase of 1853? |
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4. fiogf49gjkf0d Why is "Bleeding Kansas" considered a rehearsal for civil war? |
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fiogf49gjkf0d "The Center Comes Apart" (pp. 637–645) |
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3. What were some of the reactions of enslaved African Americans to the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States? |
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4. What characteristics did South Carolina and its legislature have that made that state particularly ripe for a vote of secession? |
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"Slavery in the Territories" (pp. 601–609) |
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2. Summarize the passage in your own words. |
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3. Explain Senator John C. Calhoun’s thesis that justified the expansion of slavery into western territories of the United States. |
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4. Why is the discovery of gold on the property of John Sutter in California considered one of the most significant events in the first half of the nineteenth century? |
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