Question 1

Until the 1870s, who in essence controlled the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande?

Accepted Answer

A)   Apaches.
B)   Comanches.
C)   Mexico.
D)   Spain.

Question 2

The Republican Party founded in the 1850s strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that ________ had begun advocating in 1846.

Accepted Answer

A)   David Wilmot
B)   Stephen Douglas
C)   John C. Calhoun
D)   Roger Taney

Question 3

With the Gadsden Purchase, whose territory increased in size?

Accepted Answer

A)   Canada.
B)   Arizona.
C)   California.
D)   Texas.

Question 4

Slave Catcher Poster (1851) 
 
-Debates around issues like those depicted in the poster

Accepted Answer

A)   were responsible for the end of the Second Party System.
B)   greatly increased the national debt.
C)   made it impossible for industry to develop in the United States.
D)   prevented women from advocating for their own rights and suffrage.

Question 5

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:

Accepted Answer

A)   won the grudging support of Ralph Waldo Emerson as a necessary compromise.
B)   gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement.
C)   was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott case.
D)   angered southerners by weakening an earlier law on fugitive slaves.

Question 6

As he entered the White House, which of James K. Polk's goals led to war?

Accepted Answer

A)   Reducing the tariff.
B)   Settling the slavery dispute.
C)   Obtaining Oregon.
D)   Bringing California into the Union.

Question 7

What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?

Accepted Answer

A)   Its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants.
B)   Its move to annex Cuba for the expansion of American slavery.
C)   Its call for immediate emancipation of all slaves.
D)   Its opposition to the Dred Scott decision.

Question 8

Map: The Compromise of 1850
 
-Which of the following was an important outcome of the compromise depicted in the map?

Accepted Answer

A)   Instead of reducing conflict, it created more of it.
B)   Southerners seceded from the Union.
C)   Northerners began to make more concessions to the South.
D)   No further compromise was needed.

Question 9

The California gold rush turned ________ into perhaps the world's most diverse city.

Accepted Answer

A)   San Francisco
B)   Los Angeles
C)   Malibu
D)   Sacramento

Question 10

Why was the extension of slavery significant politically?

Accepted Answer

A)   It determined whether slavery should end everywhere immediately.
B)   Both the North and South wanted to control the Senate.
C)   It led to the United States gaining more territory in the Caribbean.
D)   It gave the abolitionists control of northern politics.

Question 11

The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks:

Accepted Answer

A)   showed the extreme violence of which northern abolitionists were capable.
B)   actually helped the new Republican Party.
C)   was denounced by most southerners as barbaric.
D)   occurred because Sumner praised the attack on Lawrence, Kansas.

Question 12

In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to:

Accepted Answer

A)   prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico.
B)   allow voters to decide the status of slavery in new territories.
C)   divide the Oregon Country between Great Britain and the United States.
D)   annex Cuba to avoid southern secession.

Question 13

South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession (1860) 
We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution . . .
For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing. . . . A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery . . .
The guaranties of the Constitution will then no longer exist; the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy.
Adopted December 24, 1860
-The Republican Party's platform in the 1860 election

Accepted Answer

A)   sought compromise on most of the issues that concerned the South.
B)   was comprised solely of the economic interests of northern manufacturers.
C)   proposed to amend several aspects of the Constitution.
D)   took a firm position against many key issues valued by the South.

Question 14

Compare and contrast the causes and effects of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, analyzing both similarities and differences during the period 1844 to 1860.

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Question 15

The opponents of the Compromise of 1850:

Accepted Answer

A)   included key Whig leaders Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
B)   received a boost from President Zachary Taylor.
C)   were surprised when John C. Calhoun spoke in favor of the Compromise.
D)   argued that California must become a free state, which the Compromise did not allow.

Question 16

The Free Soil Party:

Accepted Answer

A)   demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
B)   cost Henry Clay the presidency by siphoning off votes from him in New York.
C)   was powerful enough to convince James Polk not to seek reelection.
D)   strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso but agreed to let it pass as part of a compromise.

Question 17

What happened under the constitution of independent Texas?

Accepted Answer

A)   Slavery was banned.
B)   People of color had had more freedoms and rights when Mexico previously controlled Texas.
C)   Rights and privileges for free blacks expanded.
D)   The government would respect Comanche territory.

Question 18

The Wilmot Proviso, admission of California into the Union, and the Missouri Compromise focused on what?

Accepted Answer

A)   The slaves should be freed immediately.
B)   Popular sovereignty needed to be used.
C)   The extension of slavery was a volatile issue.
D)   A slave should be counted as three-fifths of a person.

Question 19

One aspect of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for what?

Accepted Answer

A)   The transfer of Montana to the United States.
B)   Payment of $15 million to the Mexican citizenry in the United States and Indians but not the Mexican government.
C)   Mexicans to still govern themselves in Texas and New Mexico.
D)   Protection of large Mexican landowners in California.

Question 20

Which event sparked Abraham Lincoln's reentry into politics?

Accepted Answer

A)   Compromise of 1850.
B)   Kansas-Nebraska Act.
C)   Dred Scott decision.
D)   Raid on Harpers Ferry.

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