(NO STIMULUS) Unit 16-18 Review APUSH

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Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?

They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories.

The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in

Missouri

The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for the

prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT

the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the

passage of the Wilmot Proviso

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

A significant result of the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848 was that the United States

experienced increasing tension over the issue of slavery

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 provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850’s?

The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law

The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) represented a departure from earlier practices in which of the following ways?

It held that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.

The goal of the American Colonization society was to

return freed slaves to Africa

Which of the following factors can best be used to explain the Union victory in the Civil War?

Greater population and industrial development

Which of the following factors best explains the territorial expansion of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century?

The Mexican-American War incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the

Missouri Compromise

Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported

restrictions on Catholics’ holding public office

Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

urban areas of the North

The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the

passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Ireland

The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?

Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law.

Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?

National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.

Which of the following states the principle of “popular sovereignty?”

The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.

The Republican party originated in the mid-1850’s as a sectional party committed to which of the following?

Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories

The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT:

Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.

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

A New England abolitionist

At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners expressed all of the following expectations EXCEPT:

The South’s superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North.

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.

Anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s had the most in common with which of the following earlier developments?

The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), which limited rights for foreign-born residents

Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

The primary objective of the founders of the Know-Nothing party was the

restriction of the rights of immigrants

The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?

Possession of California and most of the Southwest

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?

The Missouri Compromise in 1820

In the first half of the nineteenth century, a major consequence of United States expansionism was

increased sectional discord, accompanied by the growing failure of compromise

Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?

The election of 1860

Which of the following factors contributed most directly to the end of slavery in the United States?

The Union victory in the Civil War led to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Prior to the Civil War, a transformation occurred in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by

Irish immigrants

Which of the following contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860s and 1870s?

The expansion of railroads made the Great Plains more accessible.