Unit 5 Progress Check MCQ
Rhetoric in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following?
B. The immediate end to the practice of slavery through legal reform
The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?
B. What motivated African Americans during the war
The excerpt best serves as evidence that, in 1861,
B. citizens in the Southern states were deeply divided over secession
The industrial resources of the North during the Civil War most likely accounted for which of the following?
D. The disadvantage of the Confederacy in access to arms, munitions, and other supplies
The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?
D. The growth of the abolition movement in the United States
The speech given by Calhoun relates to which of the following?
D. The widespread support for the immediate end of slavery
Which of the following arguments about the Mexican-American War do the excerpts best support?
B. It generated debates over citizenship.
Evidence in the excerpt most strongly suggests which of the following?
C. Southern voters viewed the presidential election with contempt.
Which of the following developments resulted most directly from the gold rush described in the excerpt?
C. People from America, Europe, and Asia migrated to the region.
Levine's argument about Reconstruction in the excerpt differs from that of Langguth in that Levine argues
A. African Americans were held in a perpetual state of slavery
Lincoln's rhetoric in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following arguments?
A. Allowing slavery to exist was still a political option.
Which of the following conclusions can best be reached based on the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?
A. Sectional tensions erupted because most Southerners did not support Abraham Lincoln.
Which of the following developments was most directly connected to the collapse of the Whig Party in United States politics during the 1850s?
A. The escalation of tensions between proslavery and antislavery factions
People who shared the views expressed in the image most likely supported which of the following?
A. The extension of political opportunities to formerly enslaved people
Which of the following arguments about Reconstruction policies would both authors most likely disagree with?
A. White Southerners across all economic classes rejected Reconstruction policies.
Which of the following can be concluded based on the situation in which Calhoun gave this speech?
B. Americans debated how to integrate conquered territories into the United States.
Which of the following differences between the North and the South during the Civil War is depicted in the graph?
B. The South relied more on plantation agriculture than the North.
Which of the following developments most directly led to the activities described in the excerpt?
B. The acquisition of significant territory following the Mexican-American War
The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to resolve debates about which of the following issues in the 1850s?
B. The expansion of slavery
The Fourteenth Amendment emerged from which of the following contexts?
C. Republican concerns that African Americans would be denied citizenship rights
Which of the following claims is supported by the arguments made by both Levine and Langguth?
C. Republicans permanently changed the balance of political power in the South.
Which of the following groups would most likely have supported secession from the United States after the 1860 presidential election?
C. Southern Democrats
Which of the following describes a trend in sectional development by 1860 reflected in the data in the graph?
C. The North was becoming more diverse in its economic activities than the South.
Which of the following developments most likely influenced the argument expressed in the image?
C. The conclusion of the Civil War stirred debates over citizenship.
Both authors would most likely suggest that the historical situation described in the excerpts contributed to which of the following?
C. The debate over the rights of states to nullify federal laws
Which of the following developments most directly related to the increased sectional strife immediately prior to the election of 1860?
C. The differing viewpoints over the use of the tariff to protect domestic industry
The artist who created the image would have most likely opposed which of the following developments?
C. The ending of Reconstruction
Greenberg's argument most differs from Hietala's in that Greenberg claims that
C. most Americans believed that Mexicans in the new territories could not assimilate
Which of the following developments in labor systems in the United States before the Civil War is reflected by the data in the graph?
D. An internal trade in enslaved people spread throughout the South.
Ideas in the excerpt would most likely have influenced which of the following?
D. Efforts at assisting enslaved people in escaping from the South
The excerpt best provides evidence about which of the following historical situations in the late 1840s?
D. Growing sectional tensions caused by the Mexican-American War
The phrase in the excerpt "Some of them seem willing to fight for you" could most likely be interpreted as having which of the following purposes?
D. Highlighting the enlistment of formerly enslaved people into the Union army
The excerpt best reflects the development of which of the following?
D. The debates about Native Americans and Mexican nationals dispossessed of land in California
