AP U.S. History Chp. 15 Test

In the debates between the 2 candidates

Douglas accused Lincoln of favoring social equality for blacks though this was untrue

The correct chronological orders of the following is

Free Soil Party formed, Uncle Tom's Cabin published, Ostend Manifesto, Dred Scott decision

The law of 1850 promised in the Compromise of 1850, which put the full authority of the federal government behind southern efforts to capture escaped slaves, was the

Fugitive Slave Law

The older generation of sectional leaders who played a final role in the debates of 1850 included

Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun

Authors identified with the American Renaissance including all of the following EXCEPT

James Fenimore Cooper

The efforts of Commodore Matthew Perry led to an 1854 treaty that opened trade with the previously it=isolationist Asian nation of

Japan

The legislation sponsored by Stephen A. Douglass, which in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise in return for southern support for a transcontinental railroad to be built west of Chicago, was the

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The popular name for American Party members who often belonged to secret Protestant fraternal societies was the

Know-Nothings

The state constitution of Kansas, under which the pro-slavery territorial government applied for admission to the Union in 1857, was known as the

Lecompton constitution

The debates on slavery between the Illinois Republican and Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate that occurred in 7 towns from mid-August to mid-October 1858 were known as the

Lincoln-Douglas debates

The 1851 novel by Herman Melville recounting the story of Captain Ahab's search for a great white whale and examining the nature of good and evil is titled

Moby Dick

The map of the Kansas-Nebraska Act shows that the Nebraska Territory included parts of all the following present-day states EXCEPT

Oregon

The man who beat Charles Sumner senseless on the Senate floor in 1856 was

Preston Brooks

The map of the U.S. population and settlement in 1850 shows all of the following EXCEPT

San Francisco and the Bay area were the most heavily populated parts of California

The first state to secede, on DEcember 20, 1860, was

South Carolina

When the Southern states began to secede

Southerners were divided along up-country, low-country lines

The map of the election in 1860 shows all of the following EXCEPT

Stephen A. Douglass won Illinois and Missouri

One of hte best-selling novels in American history, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1851, was the critique of slavery titled

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The last presidential candidate the Whigs ever had was

Winfield Scott

The president who died suddenly during the debate over the Compromise was

Zachary Taylor

The Republican platform of 1860 included all of the following points EXCEPT

a demand that slavery be ended everywhere immediately

The expansionist sentiments of the Pierce administration are represented by all of the following EXCEPT the

access gained to Panama with the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

When the Lower South seceded, Lincoln

believed democracy itself was on trial and decided to hold firm and wait

The strategy of the Confederates at Montgomery convention was to

choose moderates as leaders and claim secession wa sin the mutual interest of North and South

The Know-Nothings

claimed ignorance about their beliefs

The Panic of 1857

convinced the South that its system was superior

The Dred Scott Decision did all of the following EXCEPT

declare that while blacks could bring cases to court, slaves were property

The days surrounding Lincoln's inauguration show that he

did not want to go to war but would if necessary

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

helped bring about the organization of the Republican Party

James Buchanan became the Democratic Party's candidate in 1856 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

his strong political leadership under former President Pierce

Nativism in the 1850s refers to the fear and hatred of

immigrants

The application of the doctrine of popular sovereignty in Kansas

initially produced two territorial governments and a bogus pro-slavery constitution

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry did all of the following EXCEPT

inspire multiple acts of slave defiance across the South

Senator Seward of New York argued that slavery was not only morally wrong, but it was also, for the whole country

intellectually subversive

By 1850, all of the following were true of the U.S. EXCEPT

it had made manufactured goods the nations´s principal export

All of the following are true of the Fugitive Slave Law EXCEPT

it quieted abolitionist free blacks such as Frederic Douglass

The map of the Compromise of 1850 shows that all of the following were obtained as a result of the Mexican-American War EXCEPT

part of Nebraska

¨Bleeding Kansas¨

showed how violent sectional feelings could become

Southerners, in support of the slave system, argued all of the following EXCEPT

slavery kept whites united so poor whites would support planters

The constitution of the Confederate States of America

suggest the South seceded primarily to protect slavery

All of the following are examples of how national organizations were breaking into sectional parts by 1860 EXCEPT

the Republican Party, founded in 1854

In the 1850s, the belief that there wa sa southern slave-owner conspiracy to make the entire country a slave country spread among Northerners because

the South was very defensive and demanded equality in the Senate and a veto over presidential candidates

The election of 1852 was important because

the disagreement at the conventions showed that the national parties were growing weaker

The American Party developed as a result of all of the following EXCEPT

the feeling that secret organizations were a threat to society

In the election of 1860

the only national candidate was Stephen A. Douglass

In the debate preceding the Compromise of 1850, John C. Calhoun argued all of the following EXCEPT

the people of the territories could exclude slavery before statehood

Franklin Pierce won the election of 1852 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

the public was highly emotional and involved over the Compromise of 1850

Those who intentionally contributed to the rising violence in Kansas included all of the following EXCEPT

the settlers who moved there for land

The map titled ¨The South Secedes¨ shows all of the following EXCEPT

the southern states divided with the low-country areas, voting against secession

The election of 1856

was actually 2 elections-one in the North and one in the South

The nickname for Senator Stephan A. Douglas of Illinois, who was the person likely to be nominated for president by the Democrats in 1860, was the

¨Little Giant¨

The Missourians who crossed into Kansas to cast fraudulent ballots and promote the pro-slavery cause called themselves

¨border ruffians¨

One of the most famous and debated phrases describing the Civil War as unavoidable was William Seward's reference to it as a(n)

¨irrepressible conflict¨