APUSH QUIZ 12-13

What was primarily responsible for the transformation of the south from a stagnant society in 1790 to a dynamic and prosperous area by 1850?

"King Cotton"

Many immigrants were shocked by the differences between farming in the United States and in Europe. Among the differences were that

American farmers were far more individualistic than village-oriented European farmers.

The primary reason that the United States did not annex all of Mexico in the Treaty of Guadlupe Hidalgo was

American racism, which aruged that the United States would find the "indolent and half civilized Indians" as well as "free negroes and mulattoes" a burden and a calamity

why werent there more slave revolts in the Old South?

Blacks were outnumbered by whites almost everywhere in the south and lacked allies and guns

The Ostend Manifesto pretained to

Cuba

All of the following were reasons that both Irish and German immigrants tended to become Democrats exept

Democrats offered free land to immigrants who would support them

What were the actual results of western expansion?

Expansion brought sectional antagonisms to the boiling point

Which of the following groups joined to create the Republican party?

Former Whigs, free soilers, and Liberty party abolitionists

which of the following statements about President Polks actions is correct?

He agreed to split the Oregon Territory with the British at the forty ninth parallel, although he had demanded all of it during his presidential campaign

In 1857 a book calling on nonslaveholding southern whites to abolish slaver in their own interest was published by

Hinton R. Helper

the two biggest sources of immigration to the united states between 1840 and 1860

Ireland and the German

Which of the following statements about the Compromise of 1850 is correct?

Its passage was helped by Stephen Douglas's strategy of breaking up Clay's Omnibus bill into separate measures.

Of whom did Ralph Waldo Emerson say that his execution would "make the gallows as glorious as the cross."

John Brown

The expansionist phrase manifest destiny was first coined by

John L O Sullivan

The states of the Upper South joined the Confederacy only when

Lincoln proclaimed that an insurrection existed in the Lower South

The secession of southern states began immediately after

Lincolns election

All of the following were background causes of the Mexican war except that

Northerners feared that the Mexican government would try to expand northward and extend the slave system

Which of the following statements is false?

Slaves brought to the Western hemisphere were more likely to be sold in Virginia than in Brazil

What was the "firestorm that consumed the Whig Party"?

The Kansas Nebraska Act

Southerns churches supported slavery by arguing that

The bible justified slavery

Why did citizens of Mexico regard American expansionism with great suspicion?

They saw the "Colossus of the north" as aggressive and all too willing to trample of anyone in its path

Which of the following statements about white people of he pine barrens is incorrect?

They usually worked for the planters as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or overseers.

Which of the following did not constitute a major component of the Old South's social sructure?

Urban artisans

For pioneers trekking westward, Indians

Were not much of a threat, despite the horror stories published in the eastern press

The Lecompton constitution would have provided

a proslavery government for Kansas

What did the South gain from the Compromise of 1850?

a stronger fugitive slave law

Which occupation was open to free blacks in the Old South?

all of the above

music and dance enabled slaves to

all of the above

Although the states of the Lower South had seceded by February 1, 1861, why were the states of the Upper South more reluctant to secede?

all of the above: They had more vital economic ties to the North They knew that if war came the would end up being the battleground They doubted that their sizable nonslaveholding population would accept secession.

squatter or popular soverignty meant

allowing residents of territory to decide whether to permit slavery there

The Great Plains seemed hostile to potential settlers because

bands of nomadic Indians roamed the Plains and presented a considerable obstacle to expansion

The Dred Scott decision declared that Congress could not

bar slavery in the territories

After the 1860 presidential election, Republicans rejected any further compromise on the slavery issue because they

believed that moderate southerners would soon regain control and that compromise on matters of basic principle was tantamount to surrender

Which of the following was key to galvanizing the fortunes of the republican party?

bleeding Kansas

All of the following were the result of the Fugitive Slave Act except

both Northerners and Southerners accepted the law as "a necessary evil" to maintain sectional peace.

Potential conflicts between Mexicans and Americans could spring from all of the following except

both countries had a revolutionary tradition

As a result of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry

both northern abolitionists and southern fire-eaters were incensed

What were some of the characteristics of society in gold rush San Fransico, a city that grew rapidly?

city politics were shaped by strong regional and ethnic antagonisms

Most blacks in the antebellum south

drew from Christianity the view that slavery was an affliction to test their faith and for which masters would be punished

presidents were

forts constructed by the Spanish to protect their missions in the southwest

Irish immigrants competed for jobs with

free blacks

The indians whom white emigrants encountered along the overland trial commonly acted in all of the following ways except

frequently attacking wagon trains

The senate rejected the treating annexing texas that was drawn up by Secretary of State John Calhoun because

he defended annexation as a way to protect and defend slavery

The crittenden compromise was no acceptable to Lincoln for all of the following reasons except

he had decided soon after his election to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Most immigrants came to the United States in to

improve their economic condition

life for most plantation mistresses was marked by

isolation, drudgery, and humiliation

why was the pidgin indispensable for slaves?

it allowed them to communicate and develop a culture

all of the following statements are true of the proslavery argument except

it emphasized the economic profitability of slavery

what was the statues of the black slave family?

it had no legal status

What was the cornerstone of the southern defense of slavery?

it was up to states to deal with slavery because there was nothing in the Constitution to forbid it.

in the case of Commonwealth v Hunt (1842), the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that

labor unions were not necessarily illegal combinations of monopolies.

After the mid 1850's, southerners began to speak increasingly of secession for all of the following reasons except

long-standing yearnings for independence

All of the following people or groups were nativist and anti catholic except

martin van buren

Cotton cultivation offered all of these advantages except

mechanization of cotton growing was simple and profitable

As compared to the north the old south had a higher

murder rate

The majority of white men in the antebellum south were

nonslaveholding family farmers

The california gold rush led to all of the following except

permanently setting the issue of slavery's expansion

Democrats in the 1840s believed that westward expansion would do all of the following except

please abolitionists by limiting the expansion of slavery

Stephen Douglas's Freeport Doctrine

pointed out how settlers could exclude slavery from a territory despite the Dred Scott decision.

The wilmot Proviso called for

prohibiting slavery in any territory acquired from mexico

the black family under slavery

received a no legal recognition or protection

Nat Turners rebellion

resulted in part from his conviction that God had chosen him to liberate his people

In the 1860 presidential election, the republican party adopted an economic program that included all of the following except

retaining former slaves to prepare them for the work force

The upper and lower south had very different economies. what united them as "the old south"?

slavery

southern evangelical churches generally preached agaisnt all of the following except

slavery

Which of the following ideas did all Free Soilers share?

slavery posed a threat to working whites

Which of the following was a method that slaves might use to protect their lot?

slaves might poison their owners

The south was slow to industrialize because

southerners used their capital to buy land and slaves, not to builed factories

southern education lagged behind northern education because

southerners were indifferent to public schools

Personal liberty laws were

state laws aimed at hampering enforcement of the Fugitive slave

The wilmot Proviso was a

stipulation that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the negotitations with Mexico

The primary reason that Irish immigration soared in the late 1840's was

the Great Famine, cause by potato blight, killed more than a million Irish and forced millions more to flee

The original purposes of the Kansas-Nebraska included all of the following except

the belief that expansion would quiet the controversy over slavery

Why did historian David Potter conclude the northern attitudes toward slavery were "never quite the same after Uncle Toms Cabin?

the book and the dramatizations based on it reached millions of people and convinced many waverers that slavery was wrong.

the fate of the donner party best illustrates

the hazards faced by pioneers traveling west on the overland trail

After the Mexican war, American opinion on the extension of slavery into the new territories included all of the following except

the issue was now settled because the Missouri Compromise applied to the new territories

The "Conscience Whigs" were

the northern, antislavery wing of the party, led by Senator William Seward of New York.

In the 1840's, expansionists espoused all of the following reasons for westward expansion except

the opportunity to complete the extermination of the Indians

Stephen F Austin was

the person who led the first large group of Americans to settle in Texas

How did the vote on Compromise of 1850 go?

the seperate portions passed individually with moderates joined by either northerners or southerners depending on the specific issue

What function did the two-party system perform from the 1820's to the 1850's?

the two parties provided the nation with issues other than slavery to argue about

Which is the most valid statement describing the Republican party position in the election of 1860?

there should be no further extension of slavery into the territories

All of the following were true of planters except

they almost always built mansions on their plantations for their families

Even non-slaveholders in the Old South supported the institution of slavery for all the following reasons except

they hoped to use slaves in an industrial economy

What was the pattern followed by most runaway slaves?

they remained in the south

Which of the following is one of the reasons that the Whig party began to disntegrate in the 1850's?

they suffered an internal north-south split over the slavery issue

The Nashville Convention of June 1850

was controlled by moderates who wished the Union to remain whole

the yeomen farmers of the old south

were congregated in the upland and hilly regions

A comparison of southern white and black religion in the antebellum period reveals that

white ministers reminded slaves that spiritual equality was not the same as civil equality.