True or False Chapter 13 Self-Quiz 1

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. Democrats roundly criticized Matthew Perry for failing to gain trade rights in Japan.

. Americans rallied in support of the Mexican War throughout the conflict.

. The Great American Desert referred to the thousands of Catholic Mexicans who became U.S. citizens under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

. The western mines experienced an exceptional lack of racial and ethnic tension and segregation.

. Criticism of the King James Bible by a Catholic bishop sparked anti-Catholic riots that left scores dead.

. The Know-Nothing Party collapsed over the issue of antislavery.

. Despite slaveholders' concern for the institution, slaves only represented the third-largest investment in the South.

. National religious conventions were the one place where sectional politics did not emerge.

. Constitutional protections of free speech kept southern states from banning Uncle Tom's Cabin.

. Southern states denounced northern personal liberty laws as unconstitutional nullifications of federal law.

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