APUSH Ch 18 Multiple Choice

1. In order to maintain the two great political parties
as vital bonds of national unity, early 19th century politicians
a) decided to ban slavery from all United States territories
b) decided to allow slavery into all U.S. territories
c) avoided public discussion of slavery
d) banished abolitionists from membership in either
national party
e) worked to make third parties almost impossible

1. In order to maintain the two great political parties
as vital bonds of national unity, early 19th century politicians
a) decided to ban slavery from all United States territories
b) decided to allow slavery into all U.S. territories
c) avoided public discussion of slavery
d) banished abolitionists from membership in either
national party
e) worked to make third parties almost impossible

C

2. The U.S.' victory in the Mexican American War resulted in
a) renewed controversy over the issue of
extending slavery into the territories
b) a possible split in the Whig and Democrat
parties over slavery
c) the cession by Mexico of an enormous
amount of land to the U.S.
d) a rush of settlers to new American
territory in California
e) all of the above

E

3.The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have
a) prevented the taking of any territory from Mexico
b) required California to enter the Union as a slave state
c) overturned the Fugitive Slave Law
d) prohibited slavery in any territory acquired
in the Mexican War
e) all of the above

D

4. The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession
a) threatened to split national politics along
North-South lines
b) nearly resulted in the return of the territory to Mexico
c) resulted in the formation of the Republican party
d) resulted in strong hostility to further expansion
e) all of the above

A

5. In 1848, the Free Soil party platform advocated
all of the following except
a) support of the Wilmot Proviso
b) internal improvements
c) free government homesteads for settlers
d) opposition to slavery in the territories
e) an end to slavery in the District of Columbia

B

6. According to the principle of 'popular sovereignty.'
The question of slavery in the territories would be
determined by
a) the most popular national leaders
b) a national referendum
c) congressional legislation
d) a Supreme Court decision
e) the vote of the people in any given territory

E

7. The public liked popular sovereignty because it
a) stopped the spread of slavery
b) fit in with the democratic tradition of
self-determination
c) provided a national solution to the problem of slavery
d) supported the Wilmot Proviso
e) upheld the principles of white supremacy

B

8. In the 1848 presidential election, the
Democratic and Whig parties
a) lost to the Free Soil party
b) addressed the issue of slavery
c) remained silent on the issue of slavery
d) abandoned the tactic of nominating military leaders
e) were divided on the issue of admitting California

C

9. The key issue for the major parties in the
1848 presidential election was
a) personalities
) slavery
c) expansion
d) Indian removal
e) The economy

A

10. The event that brought turmoil to the
administration of Zachary Taylor was the
a) passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
b) influx of immigrants to the west coast
c) attempt to acquire Cuba
d) growth of lawlessness in California
e) discovery of gold in California

E

11. The Free Soilers argued that slavery
a) was unsuited to the West
b) would cause more costly wage labor to wither away
c) would, through its profits, enable small farmers
to buy more land
d) should be gradually abolished
e) all of the above

B

12. Of those people going to California during
the gold rush,
a) the majority had come from foreign nations
b) slaves constituted a sizable minority
c) the majority gained considerable financial rewards
d) most were interested in free-soil farming
e) a distressingly high proportion were lawless men

E

13. The Free Soliers condemned slavery because
a) of the harm it did to blacks
b) of moral principles
c) it destroyed the chances of free white workers
to rise to self-employment
d) it was the only way they had of combating the
appeal of the Democratic party
e) it damaged the national economy

C

14. By 1850, the South
a) was experiencing economic difficulties
b) feared that slavery might be abolished in states
where it already existed
c) remained concerned about its weak voice in
national government
d) was relatively well off, politically and economically
e) recognized that slavery expansion was over

D

15. Harriet Tubman gained fame
a) by helping slaves escape to Canada
b) in the gold fields of California
c) as an African-American antislavery novelist
d) as an advocate of the Fugitive Slave Law
e) by urging white women to oppose slavery

A

16. During the 1850s, slaves gained their freedom
most frequently by
a) running away
b) persuading masters to free them
c) rebellion
d) use of federal laws
e) self-purchase

E

17. John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and
slavery involved
a) a constitutional amendment permanently
guaranteeing equal numbers of slave and free states
b) southern secession from the Union
c) support of Henry Clay's proposed concessions
by both the North and the South
d) repealing the president's veto power
e) the election of two presidents, one from
the North and one from the South

E

18. Daniel Webster's famed Seventh of March speech
in 1850 resulted in
a) Senate rejection of a fugitive-slave law
b) A shift toward compromise in the North
c) Condemnation by northern commercial interests
d) Charges of accepting bribes
e) A movement to draft him for the presidency

B

19. In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster
a) attacked Henry Clay's compromise proposals
b) called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law
c) advocated a congressional ban on slavery
in the territories
d) proposed a scheme for electing two presidents, one from
the North and one from the South, each having veto power
e) became a hated figure in the South

B

20. For his position in his Seventh of March speech,
Daniel Webster was viciously condemned by
a) northern Unionists
b) northern banking and commercial interests
c) abolitionists
d) Henry Clay
e) John C. Calhoun

C

21. The Young Guard from the North
a) regarded preserving the Union as their top priority
b) agreed fully with the Old Guard on the issue of slavery
c) saw expansionism as a solution to the slavery question
d) gave support to John C. Calhoun's plan for rescuing the Union
e) were most interested in purging and purifying the Union

E

22. In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward,
as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that
a) the Constitution must be obeyed
b) John C. Calhoun's compromise plan must be
adopted to preserve the Union
c) Christian legislators must obey God's moral law
d) Compromise must be achieved to preserve the Union
e) African Americans should be granted their own territory

C

23. During the debate of 1850, ___________________ argued
that there was a "higher law" than the Constitution that
compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery
form the territories.
a) William H. Seward b) Henry Clay
c) Daniel Webster d) Stephen A. Douglas
e) Zachary Taylor

A

24.President Zachary Taylor unknowingly helped
the cause of compromise in 1850 when he
a) lead an invasion of Texas to halt its attempts
to take part of New Mexico
b) supported fellow southerner John C. Calhoun's
plan for union
c) died suddenly and Millard Fillmore became president
d) ushered in a second Era of Good Feelings
e) decided not to run for re-election

C

25. Southern delegates met at a convention in Nashville
in the summer of 1850 to
a) plan southern secession
b) plan ways to acquire more slave territory
c) propose a series of constitutional amendments
d) denounce Daniel Webster as a traitor to the South
e) condemn the compromises being worked out in
Congress

C

26. In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined
that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was
a) to be banned
b) protected by federal law
c) to be decided by popular sovereignty
d) to be ignored until either territory applied for
admission to statehood
e) to be decided by the Mormon Church

C

27. The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of
1850 to northerners was the decision concerning
a) slavery in the District of Columbia
b) slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories
c) the new Fugitive Slave Law
d) settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary
dispute
e) continuation of the interstate slave trade

C

28. The Fugitive Slave Law included all of the flowing
provisions except
a) the requirement that fugitive slaves be returned
from Canada
b) denial of a jury trial to runaway slaves
c) denial of fleeing slaves' right to testify on their
own behalf
d) the penalty of imprisonment for northerners who
helped slaves to escape
e) a higher payment if officials determined blacks to be runaways

A

29. Many northern states passed 'personal liberty' laws
in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision
regarding
a) slavery in the District of Columbia
b) slavery in the territories
c) restriction son free blacks
d) the interstate slave trade
e) runaway slaves

B

30. In light of future evidence, it seems apparent that
in the Compromise of 1850 the South made a tactical
blunder by
a) allowing a ban on the slave trade in Washington DC
b) demanding a strong fugitive-slave law
c) not insisting on federal protection of slavery in the territories
d) allowing the admission of California as a free state
e) allowing popular sovereignty in Nebraska territory

B

31. The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over
a) the nomination of General Winfield Scott or
Daniel Webster
b) slavery
c) the Gadsden Purchase
d) homestead laws
e) the transcontinental railroad route

B

32. The election of 1852 was significant because it
a) saw the victory of a pro-South northerner
b) marked the return of issues-oriented campaigning
c) saw the rise of purely national parties
d) marked the end of the Whig party
e) saw the emergence of an antislavery third party

D

33. For a short time in the 1850s, an American
seized control of
a) Nicaragua
b) Cuba
c) Japan
d) El Salvador
e) Puerto Rico

A

34. The man who opened Japan to the U.S. was
a) William Walker
b) Franklin Pierce
c) Lafcadio Hearn
d) Clayton Bulwer
e) Matthew Parry

E

35. The prime objective of Manifest Destiny in the
1850s was
a) Panama
b) Nicaragua
c) Cuba
d) Hawaii
e) The Dominican Republic

C

36. The U.S.' scheme to gain control of Cuba was
stopped when
a) Spain thereatened war
b) northern free-soilers fiercely protested the effort
c) U.S. leaders signed the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
d) Cuba refused to go along with the plan
e) U.S. adventurers bungled their invasion

B

37. The most brazen scheme for territorial expansion
in the 1850s was expressed in the
a) Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
b) Wilmot Proviso
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Gadsden Purchase
e) Ostend Manifesto

D

38. Most American leaders believed that the only
way to keep the new Pacific Coast territories from
breaking away form U.S. control was
a) to allow slavery in these areas
b) to build a canal across Central America
c) to grant the territories quick statehood
d) to construct a transcontinental railroad
e) to establish large naval bases in San Diego

D

39. A southern route for the transcontinental railroad
seemed the best because
a) northern areas were organized territories
b) slave labor could be used to construct it
c) the railroad would be easier to build in this area
d) Mexican leader Santa Anna agreed to contribute
money for the project
e) It would firmly tie southern California to the Union

C

40. Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of
slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by
a) popular sovereignty
b) making Kansas a free territory and Nebraska a
lave territory
c) the Supreme Court
d) admitting California, Kansas, and Nebraska to the Union as free states
e) the winner of the next presidential election

E

41. Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slaveyr
question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal
of the
a) Compromise of 1850
b) Fugitive Slave Act
c) Wilmot Proviso
d) Northwest Ordinance
e) Missouri Compromise

E

One of Stephen Douglas's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:
a. not securing the transcontinental railroad for the North
b. overestimating the protest of the bill'
c. allowing slavery to spread into new territory
d. underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery
e. believing that slavery could not survive in Kansas

D

A southern route for the transcontinental railroad seemed the best because...

E. It would firmly tie southern California to the union

The prime objective of manifest destiny in the 1850s was

C. Cuba

The election of 1852 was significant because it...

D. marked the end of the Whig party

Presidential candidates in the 1848 election included...

A. Martin Van BurenC. Lewis CassD. Zachary Taylor

The new Free Soil Party in 1848 found major support from those who

E. All the above

in 1850 the south was deeply worried because..

(a,d) the Underground Railroad was carrying away hundreds of slaves each year, California sought admission as a free state

The consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska act included the

B. splitting of the Democratic party
C. demise of the Whig party