18

15. Harriet Tubman gained fame a) by helping slaves escape to Canada b) in the gold fields of California c) as an African-American antislavery novelist d) as an advocate of the Fugitive Slave Law e) by urging white women to oppose slavery

a

23. During the debate of 1850, ___________________ argued that there was a "higher law" than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery form the territories. a) William H. Seward b) Henry Clay c) Daniel Webster d) Stephen A. Douglas e) Zachary Taylor

a

33. For a short time in the 1850s, an American seized control of a) Nicaragua b) Cuba c) Japan d) El Salvador e) Puerto Rico

a

4. The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession a) threatened to split national politics along North-South lines b) nearly resulted in the return of the territory to Mexico c) resulted in the formation of the Republican party d) resulted in strong hostility to further expansion e) all of the above

a

40. Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by a) popular sovereignty b) making Kansas a free territory and Nebraska a slave territory c) the Supreme Court d) admitting California, Kansas, and Nebraska to the Union as free states e) the winner of the next presidential election

a

11. The Free Soilers argued that slavery a) was unsuited to the West b) would cause more costly wage labor to wither away c) would, through its profits, enable small farmers to buy more land d) should be gradually abolished e) all of the above

b

19. In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster a) attacked Henry Clay's compromise proposals b) called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law c) advocated a congressional ban on slavery in the territories d) proposed a scheme for electing two presidents, one from the North and one from the South, each having veto power e) became a hated figure in the South

b

36. The U.S.' scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when a) Spain thereatened war b) northern free-soilers fiercely protested the effort c) U.S. leaders signed the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty d) Cuba refused to go along with the plan e) U.S. adventurers bungled their invasion

b

7. The public liked popular sovereignty because it a) stopped the spread of slavery b) fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination c) provided a national solution to the problem of slavery d) supported the Wilmot Proviso e) upheld the principles of white supremacy

b

1. In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, early 19th century politicians a) decided to ban slavery from all United States territories b) decided to allow slavery into all U.S. territories c) avoided public discussion of slavery d) banished abolitionists from membership in either national party e) worked to make third parties almost impossible

c

13. The Free Soliers condemned slavery because a) of the harm it did to blacks b) of moral principles c) it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise to self-employment d) it was the only way they had of combating the appeal of the Democratic party e) it damaged the national economy

c

24. President Zachary Taylor unknowingly helped the cause of compromise in 1850 when he a) lead an invasion of Texas to halt its attempts to take part of New Mexico b) supported fellow southerner John C. Calhoun's plan for union c) died suddenly and Millard Fillmore became president d) ushered in a second Era of Good Feelings e) decided not to run for re-election

c

26. In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was a) to be banned b) protected by federal law c) to be decided by popular sovereignty d) to be ignored until either territory applied for admission to statehood e) to be decided by the Mormon Church

c

27. The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning a) slavery in the District of Columbia b) slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories c) the new Fugitive Slave Law d) settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute e) continuation of the interstate slave trade

c

32. The election of 1852 was significant because it a) saw the victory of a pro-South northerner b) marked the return of issues-oriented campaigning c) saw the rise of purely national parties d) marked the end of the Whig party e) saw the emergence of an antislavery third party

d

12. Of those people going to California during the gold rush, a) the majority had come from foreign nations b) slaves constituted a sizable minority c) the majority gained considerable financial rewards d) most were interested in free-soil farming e) a distressingly high proportion were lawless men

e

16. During the 1850s, slaves gained their freedom most frequently by a) running away b) persuading masters to free them c) rebellion d) use of federal laws e) self-purchase

e

18. Daniel Webster's famed Seventh of March speech in 1850 resulted in a) Senate rejection of a fugitive-slave law b) A shift toward compromise in the North c) Condemnation by northern commercial interests d) Charges of accepting bribes e) A movement to draft him for the presidency

e

2. The U.S.' victory in the Mexican American War resulted in a) renewed controversy over the issue of extending slavery into the territories b) a possible split in the Whig and Democrat parties over slavery c) the cession by Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the U.S. d) a rush of settlers to new American territory in California e) all of the above

e

21. The Young Guard from the North a) regarded preserving the Union as their top priority b) agreed fully with the Old Guard on the issue of slavery c) saw expansionism as a solution to the slavery question d) gave support to John C. Calhoun's plan for rescuing the Union e) were most interested in purging and purifying the Union

e

34. The man who opened Japan to the U.S. was a) William Walker b) Franklin Pierce c) Lafcadio Hearn d) Clayton Bulwer e) Matthew Parry

e

41. Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slaveyr question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the a) Compromise of 1850 b) Fugitive Slave Act c) Wilmot Proviso d) Northwest Ordinance e) Missouri Compromise

e

5. In 1848, the Free Soil party platform advocated all of the following except a) support of the Wilmot Proviso b) internal improvements c) free government homesteads for settlers d) opposition to slavery in the territories e) an end to slavery in the District of Columbia

e