APUS ch 7

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Which of the following was not part of the supreme courts ruling in the landmark dred scott case of 1857

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The south's decision to seceded from the union was

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Which of the following was not a cause of the financial crash of 1857?

Decline in the price of cotton overseas

The border states that remained in the Union were

Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri

Which of these is not why Lincoln initially said that he was NOT fighting a war to free the slaves?

His main objective was keeping the union together

why was the lecompton constitution considered a sly maneuver?

It included provisions for allowing slavery in kansas even if the people voted against slavery

Which of these statements in not true about the California gold rush of 1849

It made many "forty-niners" rich

Popular sovereignty was to be used to decide the question of slavery on

Kansas and Nebraska territories

The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified part of the

Missouri Compromise

All of the following added to the growing tension between the North and the South except.

Plessy vs Ferguson

which of these arguments was not part of the compromise of 1850, which kept the union together

Slavery was abolished in the district of columbia

which of the following is not a true statement about the rise of the Republican party in the mid-1850's?

The bulwark of its support was below the Mason-dixon line

Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?"

The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there

Great Britain came to the brink of entering the civil war in support of the confederacy as a direct result of

The union's seizure of 2 Confederate representatives from the British ship Trent

Aside from the violence, the effects of "bleeding Kansas" included

a deeper division within the Democratic Party

by the civil war, the south differed from the north in that the south

attract less European immigrants

The decision in Scott vs Sanford did all of the following except

call into question the validity of popular sovereignty

The fugitive slave law of 1850 was hated in the North for all of the following reasons except

commissioners would receive lower compensation for declaring a runaway slave "free" than they would for declaring him or her "fugitive"

Which of the following was not a cause of the antiforeign/nativist movement that emerged in the 1840's and 1850's

concern that increased immigration would drive up land prices

In his opinion on the case Dred Scott v Sanford, Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that

congress had no right to regulate slavery in United States territories

The compromise made in the kansas-Nebraska act (1854) served to futher irritate sectional tensions by

deeming the Missouri compromise null and void

After the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Senator Stephen Douglas won his re-election bid, while Abraham Lincoln's actions in the debate served to

diminish the record of stephen douglas

John Brown's abolitionists activities in the years up to the civil was can be described as

evidence that the debate over slavery could turn explosive and violent

The homestead act of 1862 promised

free land to those settling the west

The major significance of the famed Lincoln-Douglas Debate in 1858 was that it

helped Lincoln's star to rise in the political arena, while Douglas began to fall

Lincoln feared all of the following possible outcomes if secession were to go unchecked except that it would

inhibit industrial development

All of the following are true statements about Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel except

it relied on Stow's many personal experiences and firsthand knowledge of slavery

All of the following are true about the Dred scott ruling except

it upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty.

The south's greatest weakness in the conflict was

its economy

During the years of the civil war, the north held the advantage over the south in all of the following areas except.

more qualified military leaders (generally West Point grads)

The majority of those who voted Republican in the 1854 elections were

northern abolitionists

The Compromise of 1850 was most controversial because

of the strict fugitive slave law

According to the principle of popular sovereignty used to deal with slavery

settlers within a territory had the right to determine for themselves whether the territory would be slave or free

symbolically important, the 1846 Wilmot Proviso stated that

slavery should never be established in the territories acquired from Mexico

despite being made up of members from various parties, the Republicans held firm in their belief that

slavery should not be extended from the territories

The freeport doctrine of stephen douglas

stated that territorial legislature could discourage slavery by failing to pass slave codes

One possible early advantage for the confederacy during the civil war was

the potential British and French intervention on behalf of the South.

President Lincoln's primary motive for entering the civil war was

to preserve the union

in the supreme court's ruling in the dread scott v sanford case in 1857, the court ruled that

Black people were denied IS citizenship; therefore they could not sue in a court of law

the compromise of 1850 affected which of the following

California and the Utah and New Mexico Territories


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