Chapter 15 The Coming Crisis & Chapter 16 The Civil War

The answers to the chapter 15 and 16 AP US History test

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Occurred Because Lincoln Challenged Douglas To Them In Their Campaign To Win Nomination/election As

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The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred because Lincoln challenged Douglas to them in their campaign to win nomination/election as	United States senator from Illinois
From 1800 to 1850, the land area of the United States more than	Tripled
America's largest export in the mid-nineteenth century was	Cotton
In the 1850's, the flowering of American works of fiction and poetry was called	The American Renaissance
The Scarlet Letter, a work of social criticism, was written by	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick, a classic of American fiction, was written by	Herman Melville
The most successful novel of the mid 19th Century was	Uncle Tom's Cabin
An essay by Henry David Thoreau indicative of transcendental literature was	Walden
By 1850 most southern leaders like Calhoun and Toombs	Insisted slavery must be national
The vast new territories gained in the Mexican war	Provoked a new debate over the issue of slavery in the territories
Ironically, northerners and southerners basically agreed on certain things. Which one of the following is NOT one of them?	Ideology of labor
Many northerners were fearful of what the called	"the slave power"
Southerners favored American expansion into Mexico and Cuba	Because they felt slavery could grow there
Above all, southern slave owners feared	Being outnumbered in the U.S. Senate
The issue of slavery in the territories came to a head when	California applied for statehood