APUSH Test 5
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 included all of the following provisions except
the requirement that fugitive slaves should be returned from Canada
The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the concession to the South concerning
the revised, more stringent Fugitive Slave Law
The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?
Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states.
The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?
Enacted a stronger Fugitive Slave Law
In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North American was called
Manifest Destiny
Stephen A. Douglas's plan for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise
The graph above REFUTES which of the following statements
Most southern families held slaves
Despite Abraham Lincoln's impressive and persuasive seven performances in the Lincoln-Douglas Senate debates in 1858
Senator Stephen Douglas defeated Lincoln in his bid for reelection to the Senate
All of the following were reasons why Britain was intensely interested in promoting an independent Republic of Texas except
Texas would become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants
Which of the following was not among the issues that concerned southerners in 1849-1850
There was a growing chance that a constitutional amendment would abolish slavery
Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of
a joint resolution enacted by a simple majority in the House and Senate rather than the two-thirds constitutional supermajority required of all treaties with foreign nations
In the presidential election of 1844, the Whig candidate, Henry Clay
alienated both proponents and opponents of annexing Texas by issuing seemingly contradictory written states about his view on annexing Texas
William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to
the immediate abolition of slavery in the South
The British-American dispute over the border of Maine and Canada was solved
by a negotiated political compromise that gave each side some territory along the disputed border
The event that threatened to destroy the longstanding balance of free and slave states in the United States Senate was the
discovery of gold in California and its bid for statehood
For free blacks living in the North
discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public education was common
Members of the planter aristocracy
dominated society and politics in the South
The roots of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery sentiments lay in the
evangelical religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening
In the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court made all of the following determinations except
it decided that slaves brought into territories north of the 36 degree 30' line were considered free.
The Free Soil party of 1848 harbored many northerners who stood squarely against slavery in the territories primarily on the grounds that
it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise from wage-earning dependence.
European immigration to the South was discouraged most profoundly by
fierce economic competition with slave labor
In his quest for California, President James K. Polk
first advocated buying the area from Mexico
The public liked popular sovereignty because it
fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination
Relations between Britain and the United States in the 1830s and 1840s could be characterized as
generally tense, with periods of violence and peaceful resolution
Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise
he had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery.
With the discovery of gold near Sutter's Mill, California, in 1848, all of the following took place except
most of the first wave of miners struck it rich in California with lucrative, easy, and plentiful discoveries of gold.
The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned
no slaves
The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas
none of the choices are correct? not free of slavery, did not hold a popular referendum on slavery, and was not controlled by free-soilers if approved
Hinton R. Helper's book, the Impending Crisis of the South, argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were
nonslaveholding southern whites
As a result of the panic of 1857, the South
overconfidently believed that it was now economically superior to the North
The clash and political fallout between Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in 1856 revealed that
passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South
Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by
popular sovereignty or democratic vote by the white male residents of each divided territory
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision
protection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the United States
Many northern states passed personal liberty laws in response to the Compromise of 1850s provision regarding
the facilitation of the return of runaway slaves to slaveowners
When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments
realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular
The goal of the American Colonization Society was
return freed slaves to Africa
The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that
slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States
Stephen A. Douglas argued, in his Freeport Doctrine, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that
slavery would remain illegal if the people of a territory voted it down, regardless of the Supreme Court's contrary decision in the Dred Scott case
The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of
southern threats that a Republican victory would tantamount be a declaration of war.
After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that
the North was dominated by "Brown-Loving" Republicans
President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to the news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near
the Rio Grande
All of the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except
the South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade
The South grew increasingly worried about the future of slavery because
the admission of California might permanently tip the political balance against them
Perhaps the slave's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was
the enforced separation of slave families
Proslavery whites defended the institution of slavery in all of the following ways except
they claimed that slaves were set free once they reached old age
Some Southerners felt Cuba would be an enticing prospect for annexation for all of the following reasons except it
was not controlled by any European power and would be easily acquired by welcoming Cuban population living on the Caribbean island.
The Young Guard, composed of certain Senators and Representatives from the North,
were most interested in purging and purifying the Union than in preserving it.
As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners
would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law
The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848), ending the Mexican War, included
United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico
According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories should be determined by
the self-determination of people in any given territory