APUSH ch 17-19

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Which of the following most likely supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

C. Southern Democrats

Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?

C. The election of 1860

Arguments similar to those expressed in the excerpt were later employed to justify which of the following?

C. The secession of most Southern states

The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations?

A. Congressional leaders sought political compromise to resolve discord between the N. & S..

The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the

A. Missouri Compromise

The excerpt best reflects which of the following developments?

A. Popular support for the idea of Manifest Destiny

Based on the excerpt, Calhoun would also be most likely to support which of the following?

A. Proslavery arguments

Which of the following factors best explains the territorial expansion of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century?

B. The Mexican-American War incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.

The proclamation most clearly provides evidence for which of the following?

B. The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions

The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

B. Westward expansion

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

C. allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there

The ideas expressed in the excerpt were most directly influenced by the

C. free-soil movement

Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT

C. the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery

Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

D. A New England abolitionist

The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that

D. slaves lived better than northern factory workers

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?

A. The Missouri Compromise in 1820

Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?

A. They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories.

Republicans asserted that political leaders could not "give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States" in order to express opposition against the

A. idea of popular sovereignty exemplified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act

The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the

B. passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act

The issuing of documents such as the proclamation generally had which of the following effects?

C. Increasing the visibility of organized opposition to slavery

The excerpt best serves as evidence for which of the following developments?

C. Lincoln sought to avoid violence over the issues that divided the country.

The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?

C. Possession of California and most of the Southwest

Which of the following statements about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

B. It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

Evidence in the excerpt best corroborates which of the following broader historical contexts?

C. Southern states sought more proslavery seats in the United States Congress.

The position expressed by Clay in the excerpt best serves as evidence of which of the following?

C. The acquisition of new territories created disputes over the expansion of slavery.


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