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1) In 1834, what did the Mexican government do to the great mission landholdings in California (owned by the Roman Catholic Church)?  In whose hands did most of the land in California end up at this time?   2

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1) In 1834, what did the Mexican government do to the great mission landholdings in California (owned by the Roman Catholic Church)?  In whose hands did most of the land in California end up at this time?

 

2.) By 1830, after Stephen Austin had led many American settlers into Texas, what was the population of Anglo-American Texas?  What did the Mexican government do in 1830 in response to the rise of English-speaking settlers?

 

3.) How would the Mexican War be the first of its kind for Americans? What happened to Henry David Thoreau (in his anti-war protest)?

 

4.) In 1847 when the Mexican government again refused to negotiate over giving land to the U.S., what did President James K. Polk order General Winfield Scott to do?

 

5.) What role did women often play in the Western mining communities that sprang up with the California gold rush (which began in earnest in 1849)?

 

6.) What did the Fugitive Slave Act (part of The Compromise of 1850 which admitted California as a Free Soil State) allow?  What did it prohibit?  What did it require?

 

7.) What did the bran new Republican Party convince most northerners about "slave power" (what they called the South's pro-slavery leadership)?

 

8.) What Democratic (Stephen Douglas') policy did Bleeding Kansas (a mini Civil War fought over whether Kansas would be a slave state or not) seem to discredit?  What violence happened in the halls of Congress that further increased support for the Republican message?

 

9.) In the opinion issued by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, what did the highest judge in the nation say about the rights of black people? What did he say about the slave Dred Scott having had residence in the free state of Wisconsin?

 

10.) In his debates against Abraham Lincoln, what did Stephen Douglas (whose policies failed so badly in Kansas) argue about the essence of freedom?

 

11.) In order to arm a great slave uprising, what did John Brown do on Oct. 16, 1859?

 

12.) In the 1860 election, how many electoral college votes (out of 303) did Abraham Lincoln get (all votes only from the North)?  What percent of the national popular vote did he get (also only from the North)?  As a result of the election of a Republican (a party with northern anti-slavery values) what happened on Dec. 20, 1860? By March 4, 1861? On April 14, 1861?