APUSH Chapters 12 & 13 Quiz

Stephen Douglas' motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:

A. boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad

Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:

A. countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species

The California gold rush:

A. resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners"

The opening of Japan to United States trade led to what?

B. Japan became a modernized military power

The ________ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement.

B. Liberty Party

What distinguished John Brown from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass?

A. Brown emphasized violence in freeing slaves

Who wrote "On Civil Disobedience" as a response to the US war with Mexico?

A. Henry David Thoreau

"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:

A. Oregon

Why did abolitionism's focus move from a more gradual approach to calling for the immediate approach of ending slavery?

A. Slavery was growing in the Deep South, so a different approach was needed

What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?

A. That they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society

In his speech about the Fourth of July, how did Frederick Douglass critique the founding of the United States?

A. The Declaration of Independence was a good starting point for principles of freedom

All of the following took place under the constitution and state laws of independent Texas EXCEPT:

A. allow Native Americans equal rights

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the

B. Declaration of Independence

Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?

B. Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave

How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?

B. They argued that too many people were "slaves" to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to compete economically

The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks:

B. actually helped the New Republican Party

By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had:

B. encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol

Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:

B. help eliminate racial discrimination

Burned-over districts were:

B. in New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred

According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?

B. voluntary associations

Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?

C. John Brown

How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?

C. The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately

The organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over:

C. a dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:

C. gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement

When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821:

C. its Indian population was relatively large compared to its non-Indian population

Which of the following puts these events in the proper chronological order, from first to last? I. Virginia seceded from the Union. II. Abraham Lincoln was elected President. III. Confederate States of America formed. IV. South Carolina seceded from the Union.

D. II, IV, III, I

How did the Second Great Awakening influence American Society?

D. It inspired some to combat the sins of society, such as slavery

What was ironic about the Fugitive Slave Act?

D. The South promoted states' rights, but with this law agreed to strong federal action

Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:

D. construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane

In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to:

D. prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico