APUSH Unit 4 Review

The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in

Kansas

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

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

The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?

Enacted a stronger fugitive slave law

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.

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

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Ireland

Prior to the Civil War, a transformation occurred in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by

Irish immigrants

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

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

President-elect Abraham Lincoln, speaking at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, February 22, 1861 The excerpt best serves as evidence for which of the following developments?

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

The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the

Missouri Compromise

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

Passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act (Fugitive Slave Act)

American Republican Party, later renamed the American Party, Philadelphia, 1844

Political responses to changing demographics in the United States

Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was

Possible British recognition of the Confederacy

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 to new territories or new states.

George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, 1857 The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that

Slaves lived better than Northern factory workers

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

Strengthen the moral cause of the Union

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT

The abolition of slavery throughout the United States

Senator Henry Clay, speech in the United States Senate, 1850 The position expressed by Clay in the excerpt best serves as evidence of which of the following?

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

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

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

The election of 1860

Proclamation addressed "To the Yeomanry of New England," Boston, 1854

The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's?

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 exsisted but oppposed further expansion to territories

The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because it

Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed Halted the last major Confederate invasion

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

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

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

A New England abolitionist

On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in

Experienced military leadership

At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, pro-Union sentiment was strong in western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina primarily because

There were relatively few slaves or large plantations in these regions

In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to

preserve the Union