American History Unit 4 : A Nation Divided TEST
During the time of manifest destiny, the addition of _____ was highly desirable because it contained two of the three natural ports on the Pacific coast.
California
Slaces were not imported into the United States after 1808.
False
Who published the anti-slavery newspaper "The North Star"?
Frederick Douglass
a leading black abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Law
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
The Compromise of 1850 was proposed by:
Henry Clay
died at the Alamo
Jim Bowie
abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown
led United States troops into California
John C. Fremont
What decision, promoted by Stephen Douglas, made popular sovereignty a national policy for dealing with slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
captured John Brown
Robert E. Lee
Dred Scott case
Roger B. Taney
Select the person who was not an abolitionist.
Roger B. Taney
led Mexican army against Alamo
Santa Anna
In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, which man's position is described below? 1. Advocated popular sovereignty. 2. Explained that slavery could only exist if the state legislature passed laws protecting slave property and could, therefore, curtail slavery without banning it outright.
Stephen Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Tariff of 1828
Tariff of Abomination
The ______ was negotiated between the United States and Mexico to establish the border between Texas and Mexico asthe Rico Grande.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
During the antebellum period, colonization emerged as a solution for dealing with the population of freedmen.
True
Slaves were held in all thirteen of theh origilonal colonies.
True
The Treatment slaves received depended on the personality of the individual owner, not the slave codes.
True
The West was the first region to extend voting rightd to all white men.
True
published "The Liberator"
William Lloyd Garrison
Select the three categories of slave labor that could be found on plantations. overseers artisans and craftsmen teachers domestic workers field workers
artisans and craftsmen domestic workers field workers
What were the three components of the Missouri Compromise? prohibit Congress from determining the expansion of slavery into territories forbid slavery north of 36 o 30' in the Louisiana Purchase admit Maine as a free state admit Maine as a slave state admit Missouri as a free state admit Missouri as a slave state
forbid slavery north of 36 o 30' in the Louisiana Purchase admit Maine as a free state admit Missouri as a slave state
expand from Atlantic to the Pacific
manifest destiny
The doctrine that allowed people living in the territories to decide the issue of slavery through their governmental bodies was called:
popular sovereignty
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 maintained the political balance between what two groups?
slave states and free states
Bitter confrontations over what issue earned the new Kansas territory the name Bleeding Kansas?
slavery
What was the idea behind manifest destiny?
that it was right for Americans to extend their way of life from the Atlantic to the Pacific
