Here are the responses for each question based on the context provided:
Question 6: Which constitutional issue was President Lincoln addressing in this excerpt?
- Response: The legal ability of states to secede.
Question 7: The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use popular sovereignty to determine whether the territory would be free or slave. This decision applied to much of the land gained from the --
- Response: U.S.-Mexican War.
Question 8: Which statement describes how the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectionalism?
- Response: It allowed slavery to expand into the territories.
Question 9: Read the headlines below and answer the question that follows: These headlines refer to the decision in which Supreme Court case?
- Response: Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Question 10: Match the characteristic to the era.
- Conflict over issue of mercantilism - American Revolution Era
- Conflict over issue of slavery - Civil War Era
- Ideas of Jefferson Davis inspired action - Civil War Era
- Ideas of Thomas Paine inspired action - American Revolution Era
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