apush chp 18/19 test
What role would the Dred Scott decision have had on the rise of the events like the one described here?
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Which of the following parts of the Compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the South?
a. Admitting California as a free state
Which of the following acts of Congress was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott decision?
a. Missouri Compromise of 1820
To which politicians is Clay directing the last line of the excerpt?
a. Southerners who were threatening to secede
Which of the following is contrary to Lincoln's belief as expressed in the passage?
a. The Alien and Sedition Acts
In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to
a. foment a slave rebellion
Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his party's position on the slavery question
b. A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
The "classes of white people" that Lincoln references were most likely
b. Irish Immigrants
Which of the following parts of the Compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the South?
b. Passing a new Fugitive Slave Law
An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?
b. Popular sovereignty
Which of the following ideas is Douglas appealing to when he says, "whether the people of the territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery"?
b. Popular sovereignty
Which of the following later historical developments aided blacks in gaining their freedom and liberty?
b. The approval of Amendments to the Constitution
Events like the one described in this headline revealed that
b. some abolitionists were willing to use violence to bring about the end of slavery
Which of the following political developments would Calhoun have most vigorously supported?
b. the Dred Scott decision
Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision because
b. the decision allowed slavery in the territories
Which of the following historical events was a direct result of the event depicted?
c. The Democratic Party split into northern and southern factions
Which of the following most accurately describes the Know-Nothings of whom Lincoln speaks?
c. They were nativists.
The arguments presented here by Frederick Douglas were echoed by which of the following groups in the same era?
c. Women
John C. Calhoun reveals here that many Southerners' based their arguments in favor of slavery on
c. theories about racial superiority.
Chief Justice Taney's basic ruling in the Dred Scott case was based on which of the following principles?
d. Since slaves were property, they could not sue.
This excerpt would be most useful to historians as a source of information about which of the following?
d. The Dred Scott decision
Nativists in the 1850s were known for their
d. anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes.
One of the most significant effects of rhetoric like that used here was
d. increased sectional divisions between the North and South
The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have
d. prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War.
Stephen A. Douglas argued in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that
d. slavery would stay down if the people voted it down.
As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners
d. would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law
Secessionists supported leaving the Union because
e. all of the above
In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court
e. expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the terrorists
The central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was
e. nativism
Many northern states passed "personal liberty laws" in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision regarding
e. runaway slaves
According to the principle of "popular sovereignty", the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by
e. the people in any given territory
