What challenges did Plains Indians face in the 1850s? What ...

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Question 1

On December 20, 1860, __________ seceded from the Union.
 
  A) Alabama
  B) South Carolina
  C) Georgia
  D) Virginia

Question 2

What political divisions were revealed by the presidential election of 1860?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott case? What were the implications of the ruling?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

What were the key components of the Compromise of 1850?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 5

What challenges did Plains Indians face in the 1850s?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer 1

Answer: B

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  Unable to unite behind a single candidate, the Democrats chose two candidates. Stephen A. Douglas represented northern Democrats. John C. Breckinridge represented southern Democrats.
  


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  John Bell was nominated by the Constitutional Union party to champion the strategy of compromise on slavery.
  


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  The Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln.
  


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  Lincoln was elected with only 40 percent of the popular vote and without winning a single southern state.
  


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  The election showed that the party system had collapsed and that regional divisions defined the country.
  

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The court ruled that residence on free soil did not render a slave a free person.
  


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  The court went further and declared that blacks were not full citizens of the United States.
  


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  In effect, the Court declared unconstitutional the Compromise of 1820.
  


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  The ruling threatened the freedom of free people of color and extended the reach of slavery into the North.
  

Answer 4

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  California entered the Union as a free state.
  


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  New Mexico and Utah decided the status of slavery on the basis of a popular vote.
  


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  The federal government abolished the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
  


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  A new and stronger Fugitive Slave Law was put in place.
  

Answer 5

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  Plains Indians confronted dramatic transformations in their way of life.
  


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  The Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole grappled with the task of rebuilding their political institutions.
  


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  In the 1850s, U.S. officials negotiated treaties with various Plains Indian groups to enable European Americans to move west without fear of attack.
  


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  As whites moved west in large numbers, they disregarded U.S. treaties and tribal boundaries and overran the fragile settlements of Indians.
  


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  Within a generation, the Plains Indians were besieged by the technology, weaponry, and the sheer numbers of newcomers heading west.
  

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