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