APUSH Chapter 19 MCQ

b. a state legislator in Illinois
c. a United States congressman from Illinois
e. a failed candidate for the United States Senate

Multiple Answer
Before his nomination in 1860, Abraham Lincoln had been:
a. a Jacksonian Democrat
b. a state legislator in Illinois
c. a United States congressman from Illinois
d. the vice-presidential candidate of the Republican party in 1856
e. a failed candidate for the United States Senate

a. intended to show the cruelty of slavery

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin:
a. intended to show the cruelty of slavery
b. was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
c. comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery
d. received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read during the Civil War
e. portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery

e. a powerful political force
-Pushed the north to take action on slavery

Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as:
a. a firsthand account of slavery
b. a success only in the United States
c. a romanticized account of slavery
d. having little effect on the start of the Civil War
e. a powerful political force
-How so?

a. realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular

When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments:
a. realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular
b. concluded that they must end slavery in their own territory
c. decided to give aid to the slaveholding South
d. banned the book
e. distributed the book as anti-American propaganda

b. an attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders

In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with:
a. the arrival of John Brown
b. an attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders
c. the influx of a large number of slaves
d. the establishment of evangelical abolitionist churches
e. none of the above

e. have black bondage regardless of whether the document was approved or not

The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas:
a. be free of all slavery
b. hold a popular referendum on slavery
c. be controlled by the free-soilers if approved
d. allow slavery but prohibit slave auctions
e. have black bondage regardless of whether the document was approved or not

c. popular sovereignty

The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of ______________________ in the territories.
a. abolitionism
b. free soil
c. popular sovereignty
d. slavery
e. cotton growing

d. the fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South

The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed:
a. the seriousness of political decision in the North
b. the importance of honor to northerners
c. the fact that, despite divisions over slavery, the House of Representatives would unite to expel a member for bad conduct
d. the fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South
e. the division between the House and the Senate over slavery

d. anti-Catholic and anti foreign attitudes

Nativists in the 1850s were known for their:
a. support Native Americans (Indians)
b. support of slavery
c. opposition to old-stock Protestants
d. anti-Catholic and anti foreign attitudes
e. opposition to alcohol and Sabbath-breaking

c. many did not want to lost their profitable business connections with the South

As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because:
a. of innate liberalism
b. the Democrats presented excellence candidates
c. many did not want to lost their profitable business connections with the South
d. the Democrats were the only national party
e. all of the above

d. proslavery southerners

The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by:
a. abolitionists
b. Republicans
c. popular-sovereignty proponents
d. proslavery southerners
e.conservative unionists

c. that Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory

For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous part of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case was:
a. that as a slave Scott had no right to sue in federal court
b. that Scott did not automatically become free when his owner took him through free states and territories
c. that Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory
d. that slaveowners had the right to flood into territories so as to control popular sovereignty
e. that the Bill of Rights did not apply even to free African-Americans

c. believed that "cotton was king"
-Not very affected

As a result of the panic of 1857, the South:
a. saw the weakness of its economic system
b. supported government gifts of homesteads
c. believed that "cotton was king"
d. backed away from secession
e. saw the need to develop manufacturing
-How so?

b. hit hardest among grain growers of the Northwest
-Sectionalism

The panic of 1857:
a. was caused by over exportation of southern cotton
b. hit hardest among grain growers of the Northwest
c. finally brought southern congressmen to support free homesteads
d. stimulated northern demands for lower tariff rates
e. demonstrated the economic dominance of the North
-Creates more...

b. action by territorial legislatures could keep slavery out of the territories

Stephen A. Douglas argued in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that:
a. the Dred Scott decision was unconstitutional
b. action by territorial legislatures could keep slavery out of the territories
c. popular sovereignty would guarantee slavery in all United States territories
d. Congress should reopen the Atlantic slave trade
e. a new version of the Missouri Compromise was needed

e. the North was dominated by "Brown-loving" Republicans

After John Brown's raid of Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that:
a. the raid was an isolated incident
b. the US army could not protect slavery
c. Brown should be put in an insane asylum
d. Brown had been attempting to defend his right to own slaves
e. the North was dominated by "Brown-loving" Republicans

b. A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3

Match each presidential candidate in teh 1860 election below with his party's position on the slavery question:
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Stephen Douglas
C. John Breckenridge
D. John Bell
1. extend slavery into the territories
2. ban slavery from the territories
3. preserve the Union by compromise
4. enforce popular sovereignty

a. A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4
b. A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
c. A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
d. A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
e. A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2

d. rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede
-Knew he was against slavery

When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina:
a. waited to see how other southern states would act
b. were very upset because they would have to secede from the Union
c. vowed to give their loyalty to Stephen Douglas
d. rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede
e. none of the above
-Why?

c. he believed that the Constitution allowed secession

President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the South in the Union for all of the following reasons except that:
a. northern public opinion would not support it
b. the army was needed to control Indians in the West
c. he believed that the Constitution allowed secession
d. a slim chance of reconciliation remained
e. he was surrounded by pro-southern advisers

e. the Compromise could allow slavery to expand into Latin America

Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because:
a. it allowed the doctrine of popular sovereignty to be overrode once statehood was achieved
b. it permitted slavery in Utah territory
c. its adoption might provoke Kentucky to leave the Union
d. he felt bound by President Buchanan's earlier rejection of it
e. the Compromise could allow slavery to expand into Latin America

e. all of the above

Secessionists supported leaving the Union because:
a. they were dismayed by the success of the Republican party
b. they believed that the North would not oppose their departure
c. the political balance seemed to be tipping against them
d. they were tired of abolitionist attacks
e. all of the above

b. repudiated by the South
-Never paid back

The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was:
a. repaid immediately after the Civil War
b. repudiated by the South
c. paid by pro-Union southerners during the war
d. not repaid until the twentieth century
e. converted into long-term Confederate bonds
-Meaning:

a. Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States
b. Dred Scott could not legally sue in a federal court
c. the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
d. Congress had no power to ban slavery from a territory

Multiple Answer
In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that:
a. Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States
b. Dred Scott could not legally sue in a federal court
c. the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
d. Congress had no power to ban slavery from a territory
e. only free blacks had civil rights

b. a state legislator in Illinois
c. a United States congressman from Illinois
e. a failed candidate for the United States Senate

Before his nomination in 1860, Abraham Lincoln had been:
a. a Jacksonian Democrat
b. a state legislator in Illinois
c. a United States congressman from Illinois
d. the vice-presidential candidate from the Republican party in 1856
e. a failed candidate for the United States Senate

b. protective tariffs
c. construction of a transcontinental railroad
d. free homesteads
e. nonextension of slavery

The 1860 Republican party platform favored:
a. the abolition of slavery
b. protective tariffs
c. construction of a transcontinental railroad
d. free homesteads
e. nonextension of slavery