Chapter 13 Quiz Hist 1103

Which of the following was NOT a feature of the rise of southern nationalism during the late 1850s?

A high-level conspiracy to take over the federal government through a military coup.

Which was NOT a conviction embraced by the newly formed Republican Party of the mid-1850s?

A system of slavery was tolerable, so long as it remained confined to the South and West.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848,

Ended the Mexican War.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Established the principle of popular sovereignty whereby the status of slavery would be determined.

A series of revolutions in Europe--in England, France, Italy, and Germany--succeeded in permanently making those countries republics.

False

By 1850, the South's railroad networks accounted for approximately 50 percent of the lines in the nation.

False

Following the Texas Revolt 1835-36, the newly formed Republic of Texas resisted annexation by the United States.

False

In 1860, the Republican Party platform sought to lower taxes by decreasing the tariff.

False

In his 1858 Senate campaign against Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln called for the immediate abolition of slavery.

False

In the famous brawl on the floor of Congress, the antislavery advocate Senator Charles Sumner was beaten almost to death by Representative Preston Brooks over a debate regarding the legitimacy of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

False

John Brown was a confederate hero martyred in his attempt to preserve what is now West Virginia as a slave state.

False

The Crittenden Compromise would have guaranteed the end of slavery in states where it existed already, after a seven-year cooling-off period.

False

The Free Soil Party contended that the western lands should stay "free" of settlement by the United States.

False

The Know-Nothing Party was founded as a crusade against compulsory public education.

False

Under the Fugitive Slave Act, no slaves were ever actually returned to the South.

False

While the Fugitive Slave Act was a symbolic victory for the proslavery side, it was seldom enforced.

False

Which of the following pieces of the statue atop the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., was part of a controversy concerning slavery?

Her Cap

When California became a state in 1850,

It entered the Union as a free state.

In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the word "Dred" was used because

It was the plaintiff's first name.

Henry Clay lost the 1844 election because

James G. Birney, running on the Liberty Party ticket, recieved 16,000 votes in New York.

In the 1844 presidential election,

James K. Polk, a slaveholder was the Democratic Party's nominee.

In the presidential election of 1848

Lewis Cass of Michigan won the Democratic Party nomination.

The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called

Manifest Destiny

One of the leading figures of the Democratic Party in the 1850s was

Stephen Douglas

Which was NOT true of the Alamo?

The Alamo was a U.S. fortress (or mission compound) on U.S. soil.

The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of

The discovery of Gold

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

The question of whether slavery would be decided by local (white) settlers.

In the Compromise of 1850,

The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.

Another name for the American Party of 1854 was the Know-Nothing Party

True

As late as 1860, California's population of men outnumbered women by nearly three to one.

True

By 1860, nearly 300,000 men, women, and children had traveled overland to Oregon and California.

True

By the 1840s, southern leaders were convinced that slavery must expand or die.

True

During the mid-1850s, Kansas witnessed a series of bloody conflicts between pro- and antislavery groups.

True

For almost a decade, from the mid-1830s to 1845, the republic of Texas was neither part of the United States nor part of Mexico.

True

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize.

True

In their initial pronouncements, Confederate leaders stressed the preservation of white supremacy and slavery.

True

John Brown and his followers murdered five supporters of slavery at Pottawatomie Creek in May 1856.

True

Lincoln shared many of the racial prejudices of his day.

True

Victory over Mexico in the Mexican War added more area to the United States than had the Louisiana Purchase.

True

When the Mormons settled in Salt Lake City, Utah was part of Mexico.

True

Which of the following territories did NOT come to the United States as a result of its victory in the Mexican War?

present-day Arizona

When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution,

protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery.

In the 1850s, two great areas of industrial production had arisen in consequence of the market revolution. There were:

the Atlantic Coast from Baltimore to Boston, and the cities around the Great Lakes.

The Free Soil Party's platform called for,

the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who wanted to homestead there.