AP U.S. History Chp. 15 Test
In the debates between the 2 candidates
Douglas accused Lincoln of favoring social equality for blacks though this was untrue
The correct chronological orders of the following is
Free Soil Party formed, Uncle Tom's Cabin published, Ostend Manifesto, Dred Scott decision
The law of 1850 promised in the Compromise of 1850, which put the full authority of the federal government behind southern efforts to capture escaped slaves, was the
Fugitive Slave Law
The older generation of sectional leaders who played a final role in the debates of 1850 included
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun
Authors identified with the American Renaissance including all of the following EXCEPT
James Fenimore Cooper
The efforts of Commodore Matthew Perry led to an 1854 treaty that opened trade with the previously it=isolationist Asian nation of
Japan
The legislation sponsored by Stephen A. Douglass, which in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise in return for southern support for a transcontinental railroad to be built west of Chicago, was the
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The popular name for American Party members who often belonged to secret Protestant fraternal societies was the
Know-Nothings
The state constitution of Kansas, under which the pro-slavery territorial government applied for admission to the Union in 1857, was known as the
Lecompton constitution
The debates on slavery between the Illinois Republican and Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate that occurred in 7 towns from mid-August to mid-October 1858 were known as the
Lincoln-Douglas debates
The 1851 novel by Herman Melville recounting the story of Captain Ahab's search for a great white whale and examining the nature of good and evil is titled
Moby Dick
The map of the Kansas-Nebraska Act shows that the Nebraska Territory included parts of all the following present-day states EXCEPT
Oregon
The man who beat Charles Sumner senseless on the Senate floor in 1856 was
Preston Brooks
The map of the U.S. population and settlement in 1850 shows all of the following EXCEPT
San Francisco and the Bay area were the most heavily populated parts of California
The first state to secede, on DEcember 20, 1860, was
South Carolina
When the Southern states began to secede
Southerners were divided along up-country, low-country lines
The map of the election in 1860 shows all of the following EXCEPT
Stephen A. Douglass won Illinois and Missouri
One of hte best-selling novels in American history, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1851, was the critique of slavery titled
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The last presidential candidate the Whigs ever had was
Winfield Scott
The president who died suddenly during the debate over the Compromise was
Zachary Taylor
The Republican platform of 1860 included all of the following points EXCEPT
a demand that slavery be ended everywhere immediately
The expansionist sentiments of the Pierce administration are represented by all of the following EXCEPT the
access gained to Panama with the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
When the Lower South seceded, Lincoln
believed democracy itself was on trial and decided to hold firm and wait
The strategy of the Confederates at Montgomery convention was to
choose moderates as leaders and claim secession wa sin the mutual interest of North and South
The Know-Nothings
claimed ignorance about their beliefs
The Panic of 1857
convinced the South that its system was superior
The Dred Scott Decision did all of the following EXCEPT
declare that while blacks could bring cases to court, slaves were property
The days surrounding Lincoln's inauguration show that he
did not want to go to war but would if necessary
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
helped bring about the organization of the Republican Party
James Buchanan became the Democratic Party's candidate in 1856 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
his strong political leadership under former President Pierce
Nativism in the 1850s refers to the fear and hatred of
immigrants
The application of the doctrine of popular sovereignty in Kansas
initially produced two territorial governments and a bogus pro-slavery constitution
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry did all of the following EXCEPT
inspire multiple acts of slave defiance across the South
Senator Seward of New York argued that slavery was not only morally wrong, but it was also, for the whole country
intellectually subversive
By 1850, all of the following were true of the U.S. EXCEPT
it had made manufactured goods the nations´s principal export
All of the following are true of the Fugitive Slave Law EXCEPT
it quieted abolitionist free blacks such as Frederic Douglass
The map of the Compromise of 1850 shows that all of the following were obtained as a result of the Mexican-American War EXCEPT
part of Nebraska
¨Bleeding Kansas¨
showed how violent sectional feelings could become
Southerners, in support of the slave system, argued all of the following EXCEPT
slavery kept whites united so poor whites would support planters
The constitution of the Confederate States of America
suggest the South seceded primarily to protect slavery
All of the following are examples of how national organizations were breaking into sectional parts by 1860 EXCEPT
the Republican Party, founded in 1854
In the 1850s, the belief that there wa sa southern slave-owner conspiracy to make the entire country a slave country spread among Northerners because
the South was very defensive and demanded equality in the Senate and a veto over presidential candidates
The election of 1852 was important because
the disagreement at the conventions showed that the national parties were growing weaker
The American Party developed as a result of all of the following EXCEPT
the feeling that secret organizations were a threat to society
In the election of 1860
the only national candidate was Stephen A. Douglass
In the debate preceding the Compromise of 1850, John C. Calhoun argued all of the following EXCEPT
the people of the territories could exclude slavery before statehood
Franklin Pierce won the election of 1852 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
the public was highly emotional and involved over the Compromise of 1850
Those who intentionally contributed to the rising violence in Kansas included all of the following EXCEPT
the settlers who moved there for land
The map titled ¨The South Secedes¨ shows all of the following EXCEPT
the southern states divided with the low-country areas, voting against secession
The election of 1856
was actually 2 elections-one in the North and one in the South
The nickname for Senator Stephan A. Douglas of Illinois, who was the person likely to be nominated for president by the Democrats in 1860, was the
¨Little Giant¨
The Missourians who crossed into Kansas to cast fraudulent ballots and promote the pro-slavery cause called themselves
¨border ruffians¨
One of the most famous and debated phrases describing the Civil War as unavoidable was William Seward's reference to it as a(n)
¨irrepressible conflict¨