APUSH midterm review (test 7)
The Congressional "gag rule" stipulated that
no anti-slavery petitions would be formally received by Congress
The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned
no slaves
The decision in Scott v. Sanford did all of the following EXCEPT
outlaw the teaching of slaves to read and write
The MOST common form of resistance on the part of black American slaves prior to the Civil War was
passive resistance, including breaking tools and slightly slowing the pace of work
In the presidential election of 1844, the principal issue was
manifest destiny
Which of the following statements is true of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
It led directly to the formation of the Republican Party
The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in
Kansas
All of the following were causes of the Mexican War EXCEPT: -American desire for California -Mexican failure to pay debts and damages owed to the U.S. -U.S. annexation of the formerly Mexican- held Republic of Texas -Mexican desire to annex Louisiana -the disputed southern boundary of Texas
Mexican desire to annex Louisiana
What principle was established by the Dred Scott decision?
National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories
Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's? -The admission of California as a free state -The establishment of the principle of popular sovereignty in the Mexican cession -The ban on the slave trade in the District of Columbia -The continued protection of slavery in the District of Columbia -The strengthened Fugitive slave law
The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law
Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?
They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories
Which of the following represents an 1842 treaty between the United States and Great Britain which was concerned in part with joint Anglo American efforts to suppress the African slave trade?
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
The provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo included all of these EXCEPT: -Pay $15 million to Mexico -Set the Texas boundary at the Rio Grande -Yield California to the United States -Yield New Mexico to the United States -Yield the Mesilla Valley of Arizona to the US
Yield the Mesilla Valley to the US
The radical abolitionists who appeared in the early 1830s, viewed slavery as
a great moral evil
The MOST significant improvement to America's transportation system during the 1850s was
a surge in railroad building
The Whig party turned against President John Tyler because
he opposed the entire Whig legislative program
For farmers and planters in the South the 1850s was a period of
high crop prices and sustained prosperity
William Lloyd Garrison in his publication, The Liberator, was outspoken in calling for
immediate and uncompensated emancipation of slaves
John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and his subsequent trial and execution had the effect of
making a martyr of John Brown and convincing many Southerners that secession from the Union was the only way they could prevent the increasingly abolitionist North from interfering with slavery in the South
The doctrine advocated by Lewis Cass and Stephen Douglas that the people of a territory, under the principles of the Constitution, should themselves decide the status of slavery in the territory was known as
popular sovereignty
The goal of the American Colonization Society was to
return freed slaves to Africa
According to the principle of popular sovereignty used to deal with slavery,
settlers within a territory had the right to determine for themselves whether the territory would be slave or free
Which of the following best describes the attitudes of Southern whites toward slavery during the middle 19th century (ca. 1835-1865)?
slavery was a benefit to both whites and blacks
The Freeport Doctrine of Stephen Douglas
stated that a territorial legislature could discourage slavery by failing to pass slave codes
The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for
the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner were leaders of
unsuccessful slave revolts in the Southern states