Question 11
Response: The slave population roughly doubled as several new slave states were admitted to the Union.
Question 12
Response: It intensified the debate over the expansion of slavery.
Question 13
Response: He claimed that states had the right to cancel any federal law deemed unconstitutional.
Question 14
Response: He objected to tax money being used to pay for the U.S.-Mexican War.
Question 15
Response: There were more economic opportunities in the West due to the success of the canal system.
Question 16
Response: By winning a war against Mexico.
Question 17
Response: The mass migration of forty-niners transformed San Francisco into an economic hub practically overnight.