AP®︎ US History: Topic 5.6 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 5.6 of AP US History – Failure of Compromise.
Questions List
Topic 5.6
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-5.2.II.B.ii
What law created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska?
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Topic 5.6: Failure of Compromise
Thematic Focus: Politics and PowerPCE
Debates fostered by social and political groups about the role of government in American social, political, and economic life shape government policy, institutions, political parties, and the rights of citizens.
Learning Objective: Unit 5: Learning Objective G
Explain the political causes of the Civil War.
Historical Developments: KC-5.2.II.B.ii
The courts and national leaders made a variety of attempts to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories, including the Kansas–Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision, but these ultimately failed to reduce conflict.
Historical Developments: KC-5.2.II.C
The Second Party System ended when the issues of slavery and anti-immigrant nativism weakened loyalties to the two major parties and fostered the emergence of sectional parties, most notably the Republican Party in the North.
