Question 5(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (01.02 LC)

What brought about the formation of the Republican Party?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Missouri Compromise
The Emancipation Proclamation
The election of Abraham Lincoln

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Explanation: This party was founded to combat this act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. The early Republican party was made up of northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and after 1866, former black slaves.

A)   The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Explanation:

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superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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