APUSH last test
The goal of the American Colonization society was to
return freed slaves to Africa
Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A New England abolitionist
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?
Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade.
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 1863 Which of the following most directly contributed to the conflict referred to in the excerpt?
Disagreements over whether to allow slavery in new territories
Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?
For most of the war, they were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.
Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?
It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown in the map was advocated by supporters of which of the following ideologies?
Manifest Destiny
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
The Republican party originated in the mid-1850's as a sectional party committed to which of the following?
Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories
Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported
restrictions on Catholics' holding public office
Which of the following factors best explains the territorial expansion of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century?
The Mexican-American War incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
"We have conquered many of the neighboring tribes of Indians, but we have never thought of holding them in subjection—never of incorporating them into our Union....To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind of incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes.... Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race.... [I]t is professed and talked about to erect these Mexicans into a Territorial Government, and place them on an equality with the people of the United States. I protest utterly against such a project." Senator John C. Calhoun, "Conquest of Mexico" speech, 1848 The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?
Westward expansion
The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region shown in the map intensified controversies in the United States about
allowing slavery in the new territories
The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it
forestalled the possibility of European intervention
After the Civil War, women reformers and former abolitionists were divided over
legislation that ensured the voting rights of African American males
The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in
the draft riots in New York City
"For a few years in the 1850s, ethnic conflict among whites rivaled sectional conflict as a major political issue. The immediate origins of this phenomenon lay in the sharp increase of immigration after 1845.... The average quadrupled in the 1830s. But even this paled in comparison with the immigration of the late 1840s.... During the decade 1846 to 1855, more than three million immigrants entered the United States—equivalent to 15 percent of the 1845 population. This was the largest proportional increase in the foreign-born population for any ten-year period in American history.... Equal in significance to the increase in the foreign-born population were changes in its composition." James M. McPherson and James K. Hogue, historians, Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 2010 Which of the following could best be used as evidence to support the argument in the excerpt that "ethnic conflict among whites rivaled sectional conflict as a major political issue" of the period?
Growing concern about the political and cultural influence of Catholic immigrants
"I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing here in the place . . . from which sprang the institutions under which we live. . . . I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men. . . . "Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it can't be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. "Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed and war. . . . And I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the Government. . . . "My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. . . . I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by." President-elect Abraham Lincoln, speaking at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, February 22, 1861 The excerpt most likely reflects which of the following historical situations?
States in the South had begun seceding after the presidential election.
During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning all of the following EXCEPT the
granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods
Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT
the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery
The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for
the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
"The slaves in the United States are treated with barbarous inhumanity; . . . they are overworked, underfed, wretchedly clad and lodged, and have insufficient sleep. . . . They are often kept confined in the stocks day and night for weeks together." Theodore Dwight Weld, Slavery As It Is, published in New York, 1839 "Slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world. . . . They enjoy liberty because they are oppressed by neither care nor labor. . . . The women do little hard work. . . . Men and stout boys work, on the average, in good weather, not more than nine hours a day." George Fitzhugh, Slaves Without Masters, published in Richmond, Virginia, 1857 Those who agreed with the views expressed in the excerpt by Weld would most likely have supported which of the following subsequent developments?
The founding of the Republican Party
