Chapter 13 quiz US History
(Q034) Who was James McCune Smith?
a black physician, author, and antislavery activist
(Q014) When California became a state in 1850,
it entered the Union as a free state.
(Q006) Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China
tripled
(Q036) In the wake of the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court, what western state legislature adopted a resolution declaring that "every free person, born within the limits of any state of this Union, is a citizen thereof"?
Ohio
(Q051) By 1860, New York City had become the nation's financial, commercial, and manufacturing center.
True
(Q053) Lincoln shared many of the racial prejudices of his day, including opposing Illinois blacks the right to vote or serve on juries.
True
(Q060) Shortly after the Dred Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, Scott and his wife were emancipated.
True
(Q065) As late as 1860, California's population of men outnumbered women by nearly three to one.
True
(Q004) Which of the following territories became part of the United States as a result of its victory in the Mexican War?
California
(Q038) The Free Soil Party contended that the western lands should stay "free" of settlement by the United States.
False
(Q043) In his 1858 Senate campaign against Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln called for the immediate abolition of slavery.
False
(Q048) A series of revolutions in Europe--in England, France, Italy, and Germany--succeeded in permanently making those countries republics.
False
(Q056) The Crittenden Compromise would have guaranteed the end to slavery in states where it existed already, after a seven-year cooling-off period.
False
(Q067) As a result of the gold in the mid-1800s, the California state legislature imposed a tax of twenty dollars per month on Indians but allowed foreign miners to conduct business tax-free.
False
(Q035) What was the controversy surrounding the Lecompton Constitution in Kansas?
It was drafted by a pro-southern convention and never submitted to a popular vote.
(Q011) A major factor that explains why Henry Clay lost the 1844 election is that
James G. Birney, running on the Liberty Party ticket, received 16,000 votes in New York.
(Q042) In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize.
True
(Q046) Victory over Mexico in the Mexican War added more area to the United States than had the Louisiana Purchase.
True
(Q047) By the 1840s, southern leaders were convinced that slavery must expand or die.
True
(Q049) Margaret Garner, a slave who had escaped to Ohio, killed her own daughter rather than see her returned to slavery by federal marshals.
True
(Q066) By 1840, California was already commercially linked with the United States.
True
(Q068) By the 1850s, fewer than 1,000 blacks lived in California.
True
(Q003) During the early 1800s, the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was claimed by both Texas and Mexico but was physically controlled by
Comanche Indians
(Q037) Following the Texas Revolt of 1835-1836, the newly formed Republic of Texas resisted annexation by the United States.
False
(Q041) During the mid-1850s, Kansas witnessed a series of bloody conflicts between pro- and antislavery groups.
True
(Q005) There were calls by some expansionists for the United States to annex all of Mexico, yet the movement failed because
of the fear that the nation could not assimilate the large non-white Catholic population.
(Q022) In the 1850s, two great areas of industrial production had arisen in consequence of the market revolution:
the Atlantic Coast from Baltimore to Boston, and the cities around the Great Lakes.
(Q025) Abraham Lincoln reentered politics in 1854 as a result of
the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
(Q024) The first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupied a foreign capital was
the Mexican War
(Q015) The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of
the discovery of gold