Unit 4 quiz

Which statement describes why John Brown's 1859 raid exacerbated the growing divide in the United States on the slavery issue?

To many slave owners, it showed the lengths to which abolitionists would go to end slavery.

Which of the following scenarios occurred during the 1856 presidential election?

The Republicans emerged as a formidable replacement for the Whigs and came close to winning the election.

In the late 1850s, so-called fire-eaters like Robert Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina and William Lowndes Yancey of Alabama

repudiated the Union and actively promoted secession.

James K. Polk's declaration that American blood had been shed "upon American soil" was his call for

war with Mexico.

Which of these factors contributed to the development of an increasingly homogeneous African American culture in the rural South in the nineteenth century?

Black Protestantism or the domestic slave trade

From 1818 until the early 1840s, the Oregon Territory was administered under which of the following arrangements?

Great Britain and the United States controlled it jointly.