Test 3

What year was the President elected in during the migration to Texas?

1844

Which of the following statements is false about the Underground Railroad?

According to the textbook, historians estimate that no more than 10,000 slaves escaped i nthe Underground Railroad.

Which of the following did early nineteenth century feminists oppose?

An agenda of political rights for male ex-slaves that did not include political rights for women.

Which of the following expresses a point in the pro-slavery argument?

Blacks are inferior to whites so that by being slaves in the Antebellum South they would recieve guidance and assistance from the superior whites.

Which of the following statements is true for both abolitionist and non-extensionists?

Both movements wanted slavery kept out of the western territories.

How did the U.S. win the Mexican War?

By invading the Mexican govt. and forcing the President to sign over Texas at gunpoint.

What happened to Charles Sumner two days after his inflammatory speech during which he described the treatment of Kansas as "the rape of a virgin territory" and blamed it on the South's "depraved longing for a new slave state"?

Congressman Preston Brooks beat him with a cane because of his denunciation of a senator from South Carolina.

Which of the following statements is true about jury nullification?

During the 1850s northern juries voted not guilty for defendants involved in the Underground Railroad, even if they were obviously guilty, in order to nulify the Fugitive Slave Act.

Which of the following statements is true about the abolitionists?

Elijah Lovejoy became an abolitionist martyr when he was murdered in Illinois for printing anti-slavery literature.

Which of the following expresses a point in the anti-slavery argument?

Every person should treat all other persons as one would want to be treated and no one wants to be treated as a slave.

How were freedom of petition and freedom of speech temporarily limited during the nineteenth century?

From 1836 to 1845 the House of Representatives adopted the so-called gag rule whereby petitions against slavery could be recieved in Congress but not read or discussed.

Which of the following statements is true about Frederick Douglass?

He escaped slavery and became a dynamic lecturer in the northern states who promoted immediate abolitionism.

What did the U.S. President do after Mexico declined his purchase of Texas?

He initiated War with Mexico; hence, the Mexican War

Which of the following statements is true about Stephen Douglas?

He ran against Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860 and lost.

Which of the following statements is false about Martin Delaney?

In the 1858 Illinois Senate race, Martin Delaney campaigned for Stephen Doughlas and not for Abraham Lincoln.

Who among the following was not an American abolitionist?

James Buchanan

Who was elected President during the migration to Texas?

James Polk

What happened at Harpers Ferry in 1859?

John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal apparently in an attempt to start a slave revolt.

Among the following pairs of persons, which two were both conductors on the Underground Railroad?

Jonathan Blanchard and Harriet Tubman

Which of the following was not a consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Kansas became a state in 1856.

According to James Brewer Stewart in "Holy Warriors", what is the connection between Yankee Evangelicals and abolitionsts?

Many abolotionsists had been raised as Yankee Evangelicals and became abolotionists during their adult years to rid the USA of the sin of slavery.

What was the problem with the migration to Mexico?

Mexico did not allow slavery

To which of the following does the term, "Bleeding Kansas" refer?

None of the above

Which of the following statements is true about the Dred Scott Case?

Pro-slavery Southerners preferred the implications of the Supreme Court's Decision to Stephen Douglas's popular sovereignty.

A recent deabte among historians is why counties, especially Britian, banned the slave trade. Which of the following statements about this debate is true?

Since the late twentieth century, most historians have rejected at least part of Eric Williams' interpretation that Britian banned the slave trade for reasons of economic self-interest.

Who was most of those who migrated to Texas?

Slave owning Southerners

Why didn't the United States immediately annex Texas in 1836?

Slavery had become so controversal within the United States that it took until 1845 to get enough votes in Congress for annexation.

What was the "Manifest Destiny"?

The US Westward Exapansion

Which of the following items was not part of the Compromise of 1850?

The land above the 36' 30' line within the Louisianna Territory was opened for slavery.

How did the North feel about the annexation of Texas?

They were against it.

Why did the southerners encourage migration to Texas?

To expand slavery.

Which book was written in response to the Fugitive Slave Act?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

What happened at Christiana, Pennyslvania on September 11, 1851?

White slave owner Edward Gorsuch, with the help of federal marshals, tried to retrieve his runaway slave, Gorsuch was shot dead by the slaves.