US HISTORY 6th EXAM

The 1857 Dred Scott decision had which of the following consequences?

The decision persuaded many Republicans that the Supreme Court and President Buchanan were part of the "slave power" conspiracy.

Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?

The second Great Awakening

Which of the following statements describes the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

The treaty purchased more than one-third of Mexico's territory for a mere $15 million

Popular sovereignty solved which of the following issues temporarily?

Whether Congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories

The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring

personal-liberty laws. (right to jury trial) fugitive act violated state sovereignty

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

war with Mexico.

In an 1858 senate campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln

warned that the nation could not endure as "a house divided against itself," that is, half slave and half free.

Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in American cities in the mid-nineteenth century?

Minstrel shows(influx of immigrants)

For which of the following reasons did the Salt Lake Mormons succeed and thrive in the nineteenth century even as other social experiments failed?

Mormon society had strong, hierarchical leadership

Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?

Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act

What did the Wilmot Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?

Prohibit slavery in any territory the United States acquired from Mexico

By the 1830s, which of the following was the dominant Indian tribe on the central and northern Plains?

Sioux(Lakota's)

How did Oregon fever affect national politics in the United States in 1844?

*The possibility of expansion into Texas became a major issue in the presidential election. Claim oregon vs. annex texas

What happened in Christiana, Pennsylvania, in 1851?

About twenty African Americans fought a gun battle with slave catchers, killing two; a jury subsequently acquitted one defendant, and the government dropped charges against the rest.

Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s?

Aid to fugitive slaves(used the bible to discredit slavery) (political campaign against congress, mass communications)

What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835?

Americans lived in social isolation, without any ties to caste, class, association, or family

During the 1850s, proslavery American expansionists attempted to acquire which of the following regions?

Cuba

The Oneida Community, founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices?

Complex marriage

The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the

Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Horace Mann and Catharine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s?

Educational reform

Mid-nineteenth-century publications such as Godey's Lady's Book and Catharine Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy did which of the following?

Emphasized the social importance of homemaking and domesticity

Which of the following was the critical issue facing political parties in the late 1840s?

Expansion of slavery and the U.S in general

Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?

He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery

Why did radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison criticize the free-soil movement bitterly in the late 1840s?

He found its emphasis on freehold farming racist and insufficiently radical.

In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following?

He justified slave rebellion and warned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed(ridiculed the religious pretensions of slaveholders)

Which of the following individuals expressed public support for John Brown's attempt to ignite a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1859?

Henry David Thoreau (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

It sparked an unprecedented discussion about race and slavery in the United States and abroad.

During the 1840s, American women's rights activists focused on which of the following goals?

Strengthening the legal rights of married women

The 1845 annexation of Texas provoked

The Mexican War

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act led to which of the following outcomes?

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was repealed.

The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?

The Second Great Awakening

What did nineteenth-century American expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?

The citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean.

Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?

They allowed both women and men to govern their communities

Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant?

They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy, against sexual traditional norms

Which of the following describes the residents of the Brook Farm community of the 1840s?

They wanted to combine farming with study and a lively intellectual life

Which of the following describes the minstrel shows that became popular in American cities in the 1840s?

They were a popular form of entertainment and social criticism (combined racist caricature and social criticism)

Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?

Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented

Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements?

Transcendentalism

The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?

Transcendentalism

Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?

Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs(