APUSH midterm review (test 7)

The Congressional "gag rule" stipulated that

no anti-slavery petitions would be formally received by Congress

The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned

no slaves

The decision in Scott v. Sanford did all of the following EXCEPT

outlaw the teaching of slaves to read and write

The MOST common form of resistance on the part of black American slaves prior to the Civil War was

passive resistance, including breaking tools and slightly slowing the pace of work

In the presidential election of 1844, the principal issue was

manifest destiny

Which of the following statements is true of the Kansas Nebraska Act?

It led directly to the formation of the Republican Party

The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in

Kansas

All of the following were causes of the Mexican War EXCEPT: -American desire for California -Mexican failure to pay debts and damages owed to the U.S. -U.S. annexation of the formerly Mexican- held Republic of Texas -Mexican desire to annex Louisiana -the disputed southern boundary of Texas

Mexican desire to annex Louisiana

What principle was established by the Dred Scott decision?

National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's? -The admission of California as a free state -The establishment of the principle of popular sovereignty in the Mexican cession -The ban on the slave trade in the District of Columbia -The continued protection of slavery in the District of Columbia -The strengthened Fugitive slave law

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 existed but opposed further expansion to the territories

Which of the following represents an 1842 treaty between the United States and Great Britain which was concerned in part with joint Anglo American efforts to suppress the African slave trade?

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

The provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo included all of these EXCEPT: -Pay $15 million to Mexico -Set the Texas boundary at the Rio Grande -Yield California to the United States -Yield New Mexico to the United States -Yield the Mesilla Valley of Arizona to the US

Yield the Mesilla Valley to the US

The radical abolitionists who appeared in the early 1830s, viewed slavery as

a great moral evil

The MOST significant improvement to America's transportation system during the 1850s was

a surge in railroad building

The Whig party turned against President John Tyler because

he opposed the entire Whig legislative program

For farmers and planters in the South the 1850s was a period of

high crop prices and sustained prosperity

William Lloyd Garrison in his publication, The Liberator, was outspoken in calling for

immediate and uncompensated emancipation of slaves

John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and his subsequent trial and execution had the effect of

making a martyr of John Brown and convincing many Southerners that secession from the Union was the only way they could prevent the increasingly abolitionist North from interfering with slavery in the South

The doctrine advocated by Lewis Cass and Stephen Douglas that the people of a territory, under the principles of the Constitution, should themselves decide the status of slavery in the territory was known as

popular sovereignty

The goal of the American Colonization Society was to

return freed slaves to Africa

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

Which of the following best describes the attitudes of Southern whites toward slavery during the middle 19th century (ca. 1835-1865)?

slavery was a benefit to both whites and blacks

The Freeport Doctrine of Stephen Douglas

stated that a territorial legislature could discourage slavery by failing to pass slave codes

The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for

the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War

Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner were leaders of

unsuccessful slave revolts in the Southern states