QUESTION 2
What prompted Congress to come up with the Compromise of 1850 ?
a. The debate over pro-expansionists and anti-imperialists.
b. Grant and Lincoln's criticism of westem expansion and the Mexican-American War.
c. The debate and uncertainty of California entering as a free state or slave state.
d. A battled that broke out along the Kansas-Nebraska border.
QUESTION 3
Which of the following was a consequence of western expansion in the 19th century?
a. It challenged the power of the North and South because of gold.
b. It contributed to a decline in slavery since it promoted the immigration of poor laborers who would work for cheap.
c. It led to an imbalance of power between the North and the South in Congress by the 1810s.
d. It contributed to the coming of the Civil War because it prompted a debate over slavery.
