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What did the Know-Nothing Party argue?
 
  A) Free blacks should be offered equal opportunities as whites.
  B) Slavery should be extended to all territories.
  C) The U.S. should be rid of immigrant and Catholic political influence.
  D) Free blacks and immigrants should be encouraged to settle in the North.
  E) The South should secede from the Union where it would be free to determine the fate of slavery on its own.

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What was the reaction of many northerners to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?
 
  A) They joined with southerners to prevent runaway slaves from escaping to Canada.
  B) Although some Northerners saw the act as the price of saving the Union, many more saw it as a vile monument of infamy and therefore took up the abolition cause.
  C) They began campaigns to repeal the old personal-liberty laws that had been passed under the Articles of Confederation.
  D) In Boston and other northern cities, mobs surrounded houses where runaway slaves were hiding, and forced the owners to surrender the fugitives.
  E) They built special jails to accommodate slaves captured on northern soil.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

B




mia

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Reply 2 on: Jul 4, 2018
:D TYSM


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Gracias!

 

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