Question 1
The Free Soilers captured roughly 40 percent of the popular vote in 1848.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Question 2
Over 80,000 gold miners arrived in California in 1849, swelling the American population of the state.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Question 3
Frederick Douglass gave a famous Independence Day speech in 1852 that symbolized the increasing stridency of free blacks against slavery.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Question 4
Whites and blacks decreased activity on the Underground Railroad after passage of the Compromise of 1850.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Question 5
The arrival of Irish and German immigrants spurred an anti-Catholic backlash from the Anglo American Protestant core of the nation.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Question 6
Many northerners responded to John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry with sympathy.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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