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A) He believed it was less important than the preservation of the Union.
B) He believed it should be preserved in the current slave states but prohibited from the territories.
C) He believed it was an issue the legislature-not the courts-had to settle.
D) He believed it had to be abolished immediately.
E) He believed the federal government had no right to interfere with it.
G) B) and C)
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A) Texas
B) Nebraska
C) Kansas
D) Michigan
E) California
G) B) and C)
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A) There should be a constitutional amendment to prohibit federal interference with southern slavery.
B) Owners should be compensated for their runaway slaves.
C) Personal liberty laws should be repealed.
D) None of these choices
E) All of these choices
G) A) and B)
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A) It contradicted prevailing stereotypes about blacks.
B) It challenged the common notion that slavery tore apart the black family.
C) It pushed many waverers to an aggressive antislavery stance.
D) It strengthened the southern defense of slavery by reinforcing stereotypes of blacks as docile and inferior.
E) It sold relatively few copies and was soon out of print.
G) C) and D)
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A) They believed that war was the only method left to settle the issue.
B) They believed that moderate southerners would soon regain control, and that compromise on matters of basic principle was tantamount to surrender.
C) They believed that the nation was better off split in half because it obviously could not exist half slave and half free.
D) They believed that the issue had already been settled by the election of 1860.
E) All of these choices
G) B) and E)
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A) The Whig party lost much support in the South and began to break up.
B) Franklin Pierce won a close victory.
C) Whig candidate Winfield Scott won by vigorously endorsing the Compromise of 1850.
D) The Republican party made its first major electoral gains.
E) Franklin Pierce refused to run for reelection.
G) B) and C)
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A) That leading northern abolitionists were actually behind it.
B) Brown's execution would make him a martyr for the abolitionist cause.
C) That it would have succeeded if he had had more time.
D) That it would lead to the torture of thousands of slaves across the South.
E) That it would further divide the North and the South.
G) B) and E)
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