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Standard "5.0 History," Indicator "4.6 …"

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What factor led the United States into Civil War?

  1. A.
    the forced removal of American Indians to the West
  2. B.
    the expansion of slavery
  3. C.
    the inability to limit immigration
  4. D.
    the lack of regulation of overseas trade with Europe

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One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.

—President Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861

President Lincoln’s idea expressed in this excerpt eventually led to the

  1. A.
    Mexican-American War.
  2. B.
    Fugitive Slave Act.
  3. C.
    Missouri Compromise.
  4. D.
    Civil War.