Chapter 13- A House Divided, 1840-1861
The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks:
B. Actually helped the new Republican Party.
In the 1850s, which action would be in line with Abraham Lincoln's views on race?
B. An African-American man trains as an artisan and then starts his own business.
Why was the extension of slavery significant politically?
B. Both the North and South wanted to control the Senate.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:
B. Gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement.
During the secession of winter of 1860-1861, who offered the most widely supported compromise plan in Congress, which allowed the westward extension of the Missouri Compromise line?
B. John Crittenden.
When "Fifty-four forty or fight" did not result in gaining all of the Pacific Northwest, who most likely would have been the angriest?
B. Northern Democrats.
How did the territory acquired from the Mexican War promote Thomas Jefferson's earlier idea of an Empire of Liberty?
B. Only people classified as whites gained full rights.
"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:
B. Oregon.
The Lecompton Constitution was the:
B. Proslavery constitution proposed from Kansas.
The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to:
B. Protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them.
The opponents of the Compromise of 1850:
B. Received a boost from President Zachary Taylor.
James Polk had four clearly defined goals when he entered the White House. Which was NOT one of his goals?
B. Settle the slavery dispute.
The 1860 Republican platform stated all of the following EXCEPT that:
B. Slavery should be abolished in the nation's capital.
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840's?
B. Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.
Which 1854 document called for the United States to seize Cuba?
B. The Ostend Manifesto.
By casting their ballots for the Constitutional Unionist candidate John Bell in the 1860 election, what did people in Virginia and Kentucky fear?
D. The voters worried than an impending civil war would lead to war being fought in their respective states.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for all of the following EXCEPT:
D. U.S. control of all of the Oregon Country.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States gained the most territory through:
D. Wars with Mexico.
By 1856, the Republic Party included individuals who had been, until rather recently, members of each of the following political groups EXCEPT:
E. Federalists.
Who wrote "On Civil Disobedience" as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?
E. Henry David Thoreau.
Which of the following puts these events in the proper chronological order, from first to last?
E. II, IV, III, I. II. Abraham Lincoln was elected president. IV. South Carolina seceded from the Union. III. Confederate States of America formed. I. Virginia seceded from the Union.
In 1821, the opening of the Santa Fe Trail between Santa Fe and _____________ led to a reorientation of New Mexico's commerce from the rest of Mexico to the United States.
E. Independence, Missouri.
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?
E. Its denunciation of Roman Catholic Immigrants.
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
E. John Brown.
Which event sparked Abraham Lincoln to reenter politics?
E. Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The Republican free labor ideology:
E. Led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.
Which American naval officer negotiated a treaty that opened two Japanese ports to U.S. ships in 1854?
E. Matthew Perry.
On matters related to citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that:
E. Only white persons could be U.S. citizens.
The California Gold Rush turned _________________ into perhaps the world's most diverse city.
E. San Francisco.
For the South in the 1830's, making the Texas territory part of the United States could potentially be most beneficial in what way?
E. Several slave states could be created out of Texas.
The Wilmot Proviso, admission of California into the Union, and the Missouri Compromise focused on what?
E. The extension of slavery was a volatile issue.
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because:
E. The presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it.
The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for:
E. U.S. senator from Illinois in 1858.
Why were the Know-Nothings unable to curb the political influence of Irish immigrants?
E. Voting rights were being determined by race.
Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:
A. Boost effects to build a transcontinental railroad.
The American Civil War began in April 1861, when:
A. Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter.
The Republican Party founded in the 1850's strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that ___________________ had begun advocating in 1846.
A. David Wilmot.
The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court:
A. Declared Congress could not ban slavery from territories.
The Free Soil Party:
A. Demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, what view did Stephen A. Douglas take?
A. If each state, slave or free, only worried about its own status, then there should be harmony.
When Democrats demanded the "reannexation" of Texas in 1844, they:
A. Implied that Texas has once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase.
In the presidential election of 1860, the two candidates who received the most votes in the southern states were:
A. John Breckinridge and John Bell.
The term "Californios" referred in the 1830's and 1840's to _________________ in California.
A. Mexican cattle ranchers.
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to:
A. Prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico.
According to John L. O'Sullivan's "Democratic Review", what was the key to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires?
A. Race.
Which of the following statements related to ethnicity was true in California in the 1850's?
A. Thousands of Indian children were declared orphans and treated as slaves.
What distinguished John Brown from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass?
C. Brown emphasized violence in freeing slaves.
During the Mexican War:
C. For the first time, the U.S. troops occupied a foreign capital.
In the 1860 election, how many different presidential candidates won electoral votes?
C. Four.
Which two political figures agreed to keep the issue of annexing Texas out of the 1844 presidential campaign if possible?
C. Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren.
When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821:
C. Its Indian population was relatively large compared to its non-Indian population.
The opening of Japan to United States trade led to what?
C. Japan became a modernized military power.
American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and 1830's:
C. Led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials.
The California Gold Rush:
C. Resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners."
Analyze the role that manifest destiny played in the California Gold Rush. What was the result?
C. The California legislature created a foreign miners' tax.
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
C. The Oregon territory would be created.
Which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
C. The Whig Party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new Republican Party.
The controversy over the arrest of Anthony Burns in 1854 shows:
C. The unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act in parts of the North.
Who questioned President Polk's right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting that the president specify the precise spot where blood had first been shed?
D. Abraham Lincoln.
All of the following took place under the constitution and state laws of independent Texas EXCEPT:
D. Allow Native Americans equal rights.
During the 1850's, 80 percent of the world's gold came from two places that experienced gold rushes at about the same time, California and:
D. Australia.
During his debate with Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois, Stephen Douglas:
D. Insisted that popular sovereignty was compatible with the Dred Scott decision.
Why did Mississippi politician Jefferson Davis object in the 1850's to the original design of the "Statue of Freedom" that now adorns the U.S. Capitol dome?
D. Its use of an ancient Roman liberty cap on "Freedom" raised a touchy matter about slaves' longing for freedom.
The Republican presidential candidate in 1856 was:
D. John Frémont.
In regards to Fort Sumter, analyze the maneuvering of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Who was superior, Davis or Lincoln?
D. Lincoln made the South look like the aggressor.
In 1854, the Know-Nothings won all the congressional races as well as the governorship in:
D. Massachusetts.
From 1848 to 1860, most of the railroad construction was in which region?
D. Midwest.
Which of the following countries did NOT go through some kind of popular upheaval in 1848?
D. Russia.
In the 1850's, Tennessee-born William Walker became famous for:
D. Seeking to establish himself as a ruler of slaveholding Nicaragua.
In 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordinance of succession and declare itself separated from the Union?
D. South Carolina.
With the exception of Alaska, what was the last piece of territory acquired by the United States toward the solidification of its present boundaries in North America?
D. The Gadsden Purchase.
What was ironic about the Fugitive Slave Act?
D. The South promoted states' rights, but with this law agreed to strong federal action.