APUSH MT

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

A New England abolitionist

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?

Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade

Which of the following most directly resulted from the change in Native American population described by Las Casas

The Spanish imported Africans as a new source of labor

The Federalist papers were written in order to

attain ratification of the Constitution

The early success of the Pennsylvania colony was due in large part to which of the following?

William Penn's careful planning and his policy of selling land to settlers

In 1735 the New York City trial of editor John Peter Zenger helped establish the principle that

an editor could not be punished for seditious libel if the editor's words were accurate

The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation in the 1830s by

banning the discussion of antislavery petitions

An implication of Las Casas' argument is that a major cause of the decline of the native populations in the Americas after 1492 was the

epidemics brought to the Americas by Europeans

In their colonization of the Americas, the Spanish used the encomienda system to

organize and regulate Native American labor

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