APUS ch 7
Which of the following was not part of the supreme courts ruling in the landmark dred scott case of 1857
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The south's decision to seceded from the union was
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Which of the following was not a cause of the financial crash of 1857?
Decline in the price of cotton overseas
The border states that remained in the Union were
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
Which of these is not why Lincoln initially said that he was NOT fighting a war to free the slaves?
His main objective was keeping the union together
why was the lecompton constitution considered a sly maneuver?
It included provisions for allowing slavery in kansas even if the people voted against slavery
Which of these statements in not true about the California gold rush of 1849
It made many "forty-niners" rich
Popular sovereignty was to be used to decide the question of slavery on
Kansas and Nebraska territories
The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified part of the
Missouri Compromise
All of the following added to the growing tension between the North and the South except.
Plessy vs Ferguson
which of these arguments was not part of the compromise of 1850, which kept the union together
Slavery was abolished in the district of columbia
which of the following is not a true statement about the rise of the Republican party in the mid-1850's?
The bulwark of its support was below the Mason-dixon line
Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?"
The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there
Great Britain came to the brink of entering the civil war in support of the confederacy as a direct result of
The union's seizure of 2 Confederate representatives from the British ship Trent
Aside from the violence, the effects of "bleeding Kansas" included
a deeper division within the Democratic Party
by the civil war, the south differed from the north in that the south
attract less European immigrants
The decision in Scott vs Sanford did all of the following except
call into question the validity of popular sovereignty
The fugitive slave law of 1850 was hated in the North for all of the following reasons except
commissioners would receive lower compensation for declaring a runaway slave "free" than they would for declaring him or her "fugitive"
Which of the following was not a cause of the antiforeign/nativist movement that emerged in the 1840's and 1850's
concern that increased immigration would drive up land prices
In his opinion on the case Dred Scott v Sanford, Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that
congress had no right to regulate slavery in United States territories
The compromise made in the kansas-Nebraska act (1854) served to futher irritate sectional tensions by
deeming the Missouri compromise null and void
After the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Senator Stephen Douglas won his re-election bid, while Abraham Lincoln's actions in the debate served to
diminish the record of stephen douglas
John Brown's abolitionists activities in the years up to the civil was can be described as
evidence that the debate over slavery could turn explosive and violent
The homestead act of 1862 promised
free land to those settling the west
The major significance of the famed Lincoln-Douglas Debate in 1858 was that it
helped Lincoln's star to rise in the political arena, while Douglas began to fall
Lincoln feared all of the following possible outcomes if secession were to go unchecked except that it would
inhibit industrial development
All of the following are true statements about Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel except
it relied on Stow's many personal experiences and firsthand knowledge of slavery
All of the following are true about the Dred scott ruling except
it upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
The south's greatest weakness in the conflict was
its economy
During the years of the civil war, the north held the advantage over the south in all of the following areas except.
more qualified military leaders (generally West Point grads)
The majority of those who voted Republican in the 1854 elections were
northern abolitionists
The Compromise of 1850 was most controversial because
of the strict fugitive slave law
According to the principle of popular sovereignty used to deal with slavery
settlers within a territory had the right to determine for themselves whether the territory would be slave or free
symbolically important, the 1846 Wilmot Proviso stated that
slavery should never be established in the territories acquired from Mexico
despite being made up of members from various parties, the Republicans held firm in their belief that
slavery should not be extended from the territories
The freeport doctrine of stephen douglas
stated that territorial legislature could discourage slavery by failing to pass slave codes
One possible early advantage for the confederacy during the civil war was
the potential British and French intervention on behalf of the South.
President Lincoln's primary motive for entering the civil war was
to preserve the union
in the supreme court's ruling in the dread scott v sanford case in 1857, the court ruled that
Black people were denied IS citizenship; therefore they could not sue in a court of law
the compromise of 1850 affected which of the following
California and the Utah and New Mexico Territories
