APUSH QUIZ 12-13
What was primarily responsible for the transformation of the south from a stagnant society in 1790 to a dynamic and prosperous area by 1850?
"King Cotton"
Many immigrants were shocked by the differences between farming in the United States and in Europe. Among the differences were that
American farmers were far more individualistic than village-oriented European farmers.
The primary reason that the United States did not annex all of Mexico in the Treaty of Guadlupe Hidalgo was
American racism, which aruged that the United States would find the "indolent and half civilized Indians" as well as "free negroes and mulattoes" a burden and a calamity
why werent there more slave revolts in the Old South?
Blacks were outnumbered by whites almost everywhere in the south and lacked allies and guns
The Ostend Manifesto pretained to
Cuba
All of the following were reasons that both Irish and German immigrants tended to become Democrats exept
Democrats offered free land to immigrants who would support them
What were the actual results of western expansion?
Expansion brought sectional antagonisms to the boiling point
Which of the following groups joined to create the Republican party?
Former Whigs, free soilers, and Liberty party abolitionists
which of the following statements about President Polks actions is correct?
He agreed to split the Oregon Territory with the British at the forty ninth parallel, although he had demanded all of it during his presidential campaign
In 1857 a book calling on nonslaveholding southern whites to abolish slaver in their own interest was published by
Hinton R. Helper
the two biggest sources of immigration to the united states between 1840 and 1860
Ireland and the German
Which of the following statements about the Compromise of 1850 is correct?
Its passage was helped by Stephen Douglas's strategy of breaking up Clay's Omnibus bill into separate measures.
Of whom did Ralph Waldo Emerson say that his execution would "make the gallows as glorious as the cross."
John Brown
The expansionist phrase manifest destiny was first coined by
John L O Sullivan
The states of the Upper South joined the Confederacy only when
Lincoln proclaimed that an insurrection existed in the Lower South
The secession of southern states began immediately after
Lincolns election
All of the following were background causes of the Mexican war except that
Northerners feared that the Mexican government would try to expand northward and extend the slave system
Which of the following statements is false?
Slaves brought to the Western hemisphere were more likely to be sold in Virginia than in Brazil
What was the "firestorm that consumed the Whig Party"?
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Southerns churches supported slavery by arguing that
The bible justified slavery
Why did citizens of Mexico regard American expansionism with great suspicion?
They saw the "Colossus of the north" as aggressive and all too willing to trample of anyone in its path
Which of the following statements about white people of he pine barrens is incorrect?
They usually worked for the planters as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or overseers.
Which of the following did not constitute a major component of the Old South's social sructure?
Urban artisans
For pioneers trekking westward, Indians
Were not much of a threat, despite the horror stories published in the eastern press
The Lecompton constitution would have provided
a proslavery government for Kansas
What did the South gain from the Compromise of 1850?
a stronger fugitive slave law
Which occupation was open to free blacks in the Old South?
all of the above
music and dance enabled slaves to
all of the above
Although the states of the Lower South had seceded by February 1, 1861, why were the states of the Upper South more reluctant to secede?
all of the above: They had more vital economic ties to the North They knew that if war came the would end up being the battleground They doubted that their sizable nonslaveholding population would accept secession.
squatter or popular soverignty meant
allowing residents of territory to decide whether to permit slavery there
The Great Plains seemed hostile to potential settlers because
bands of nomadic Indians roamed the Plains and presented a considerable obstacle to expansion
The Dred Scott decision declared that Congress could not
bar slavery in the territories
After the 1860 presidential election, Republicans rejected any further compromise on the slavery issue because they
believed that moderate southerners would soon regain control and that compromise on matters of basic principle was tantamount to surrender
Which of the following was key to galvanizing the fortunes of the republican party?
bleeding Kansas
All of the following were the result of the Fugitive Slave Act except
both Northerners and Southerners accepted the law as "a necessary evil" to maintain sectional peace.
Potential conflicts between Mexicans and Americans could spring from all of the following except
both countries had a revolutionary tradition
As a result of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry
both northern abolitionists and southern fire-eaters were incensed
What were some of the characteristics of society in gold rush San Fransico, a city that grew rapidly?
city politics were shaped by strong regional and ethnic antagonisms
Most blacks in the antebellum south
drew from Christianity the view that slavery was an affliction to test their faith and for which masters would be punished
presidents were
forts constructed by the Spanish to protect their missions in the southwest
Irish immigrants competed for jobs with
free blacks
The indians whom white emigrants encountered along the overland trial commonly acted in all of the following ways except
frequently attacking wagon trains
The senate rejected the treating annexing texas that was drawn up by Secretary of State John Calhoun because
he defended annexation as a way to protect and defend slavery
The crittenden compromise was no acceptable to Lincoln for all of the following reasons except
he had decided soon after his election to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Most immigrants came to the United States in to
improve their economic condition
life for most plantation mistresses was marked by
isolation, drudgery, and humiliation
why was the pidgin indispensable for slaves?
it allowed them to communicate and develop a culture
all of the following statements are true of the proslavery argument except
it emphasized the economic profitability of slavery
what was the statues of the black slave family?
it had no legal status
What was the cornerstone of the southern defense of slavery?
it was up to states to deal with slavery because there was nothing in the Constitution to forbid it.
in the case of Commonwealth v Hunt (1842), the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that
labor unions were not necessarily illegal combinations of monopolies.
After the mid 1850's, southerners began to speak increasingly of secession for all of the following reasons except
long-standing yearnings for independence
All of the following people or groups were nativist and anti catholic except
martin van buren
Cotton cultivation offered all of these advantages except
mechanization of cotton growing was simple and profitable
As compared to the north the old south had a higher
murder rate
The majority of white men in the antebellum south were
nonslaveholding family farmers
The california gold rush led to all of the following except
permanently setting the issue of slavery's expansion
Democrats in the 1840s believed that westward expansion would do all of the following except
please abolitionists by limiting the expansion of slavery
Stephen Douglas's Freeport Doctrine
pointed out how settlers could exclude slavery from a territory despite the Dred Scott decision.
The wilmot Proviso called for
prohibiting slavery in any territory acquired from mexico
the black family under slavery
received a no legal recognition or protection
Nat Turners rebellion
resulted in part from his conviction that God had chosen him to liberate his people
In the 1860 presidential election, the republican party adopted an economic program that included all of the following except
retaining former slaves to prepare them for the work force
The upper and lower south had very different economies. what united them as "the old south"?
slavery
southern evangelical churches generally preached agaisnt all of the following except
slavery
Which of the following ideas did all Free Soilers share?
slavery posed a threat to working whites
Which of the following was a method that slaves might use to protect their lot?
slaves might poison their owners
The south was slow to industrialize because
southerners used their capital to buy land and slaves, not to builed factories
southern education lagged behind northern education because
southerners were indifferent to public schools
Personal liberty laws were
state laws aimed at hampering enforcement of the Fugitive slave
The wilmot Proviso was a
stipulation that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the negotitations with Mexico
The primary reason that Irish immigration soared in the late 1840's was
the Great Famine, cause by potato blight, killed more than a million Irish and forced millions more to flee
The original purposes of the Kansas-Nebraska included all of the following except
the belief that expansion would quiet the controversy over slavery
Why did historian David Potter conclude the northern attitudes toward slavery were "never quite the same after Uncle Toms Cabin?
the book and the dramatizations based on it reached millions of people and convinced many waverers that slavery was wrong.
the fate of the donner party best illustrates
the hazards faced by pioneers traveling west on the overland trail
After the Mexican war, American opinion on the extension of slavery into the new territories included all of the following except
the issue was now settled because the Missouri Compromise applied to the new territories
The "Conscience Whigs" were
the northern, antislavery wing of the party, led by Senator William Seward of New York.
In the 1840's, expansionists espoused all of the following reasons for westward expansion except
the opportunity to complete the extermination of the Indians
Stephen F Austin was
the person who led the first large group of Americans to settle in Texas
How did the vote on Compromise of 1850 go?
the seperate portions passed individually with moderates joined by either northerners or southerners depending on the specific issue
What function did the two-party system perform from the 1820's to the 1850's?
the two parties provided the nation with issues other than slavery to argue about
Which is the most valid statement describing the Republican party position in the election of 1860?
there should be no further extension of slavery into the territories
All of the following were true of planters except
they almost always built mansions on their plantations for their families
Even non-slaveholders in the Old South supported the institution of slavery for all the following reasons except
they hoped to use slaves in an industrial economy
What was the pattern followed by most runaway slaves?
they remained in the south
Which of the following is one of the reasons that the Whig party began to disntegrate in the 1850's?
they suffered an internal north-south split over the slavery issue
The Nashville Convention of June 1850
was controlled by moderates who wished the Union to remain whole
the yeomen farmers of the old south
were congregated in the upland and hilly regions
A comparison of southern white and black religion in the antebellum period reveals that
white ministers reminded slaves that spiritual equality was not the same as civil equality.