APUSH Unit 4 Review
The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in
Kansas
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to
Allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there.
The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?
Enacted a stronger fugitive slave law
Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?
For most of the war, they were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.
During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning all of the following EXCEPT the
Granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods
Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?
Ireland
Prior to the Civil War, a transformation occurred in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by
Irish immigrants
Which of the following statements about the Dred Scott decision is correct?
It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States
President-elect Abraham Lincoln, speaking at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, February 22, 1861 The excerpt best serves as evidence for which of the following developments?
Lincoln sought to avoid violence over the issues that divided the country
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
Passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act (Fugitive Slave Act)
American Republican Party, later renamed the American Party, Philadelphia, 1844
Political responses to changing demographics in the United States
Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was
Possible British recognition of the Confederacy
The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?
Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended to new territories or new states.
George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, 1857 The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that
Slaves lived better than Northern factory workers
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
Strengthen the moral cause of the Union
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT
The abolition of slavery throughout the United States
Senator Henry Clay, speech in the United States Senate, 1850 The position expressed by Clay in the excerpt best serves as evidence of which of the following?
The acquisition of new territories created disputes over the expansion of slavery
The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in
The draft riots in New York City
Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?
The election of 1860
Proclamation addressed "To the Yeomanry of New England," Boston, 1854
The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions
Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's?
The strengthened Fugitive slave law
Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?
They were willing to accept slavery where it exsisted but oppposed further expansion to territories
The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because it
Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed Halted the last major Confederate invasion
The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it
forestalled the possibility of European intervention
Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War except
the growing power of poor southern whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery
Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A New England abolitionist
On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in
Experienced military leadership
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, pro-Union sentiment was strong in western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina primarily because
There were relatively few slaves or large plantations in these regions
In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to
preserve the Union