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| In 1854, why was Stephen Douglas frustrated? |
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| In 1854 Stephen Douglas was frustrated that congress had yet to form territories in the vast stretches of land that lay west of Iowa and Missouri, PG9. |
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| 2) What balanced the annexation of Texas? |
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| The annex of slave-state Texas in 1845 was balanced by the acquisition of free Oregon the next year. |
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| 3) In what way did Pierce’s wife link their son’s death with his election as president? |
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| Mrs Pierce believed God had removed her son as to not distract his father from his important duties. |
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| 4) In 1848, what argument did Lewis Cass make during the presidential election? |
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| Lewis Cass proposed that popular sovereignty be the solution to slavery in the newly acquired Mexican Cession. People in the territory not congress should choose if they want slaves or not. |
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| 5) In what way was the Kansas-Nebraska bill a symbolic victory for southerners? |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska bill was a victory in that Northerners conceded slavery's equal right to go into the territories. |
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| 6) Why did the Texan, Sam Houston, vote against the Kansas-Nebraska bill? |
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| Sam Houston believed that the South was needlessly agitating anti slavery passions. PG20 |
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| 7) What was the belief of the Young America movement? |
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| The Young America Movement was the belief that America best spread liberty by spreading its own borders. |
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| 8) Why did Democrats oppose government intervention of the economy? |
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| Democrats feared that government intervention in the economy might aid the rich and well connected at the expense of the common white man. |
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