Question 1

No southern justices supported the Dred Scott decision.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The leading advocate for southern economic diversification was James D.B.De Bow.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

About ____________________ "border ruffians" from Missouri voted illegally in the spring of 1855 to elect a proslavery territorial legislature in Kansas.

Accepted Answer

The answer of About ____________________ "border ruffians" from Missouri voted...

Question 4

Most northerners left the Know-Nothings and became Republicans because of

Accepted Answer

A) the slavery issue. 
B) the immigration issue. 
C) the temperance issue. 
D) economic concerns. 
E) concern for public education. 
A) the slavery issue. 
B) the immigration issue. 
C) the temperance issue. 
D) economic concerns. 
E) concern for public education.

Question 5

The Lecompton Constitution was invalid because it was written by the antislavery minority in the proslavery territory of Kansas.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Four million immigrants came to the United States between 1845 and 1860.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Abraham Lincoln saw the prevention of the expansion of slavery into the territories as the first step to its eventual extinction.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Most of the foreign-born voters in the 1830s and 1840s joined the Democratic Party.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

By 1855,cotton provided more than ____ of total U.S.exports.

Accepted Answer

A) one-quarter 
B) one-third 
C) one-half 
D) two-thirds 
E) one-tenth 
A) one-quarter 
B) one-third 
C) one-half 
D) two-thirds 
E) one-tenth

Question 10

Examine the important repercussions of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.

Accepted Answer

Brown was an antislavery zealot.In 1856,

Question 11

The first year that the Republican Party ran a presidential candidate was 1854.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Most immigrants between 1800 and 1830 were

Accepted Answer

A) Irish,Catholic,and unskilled laborers. 
B) British,Protestant,and skilled workers. 
C) German,Protestant,and unskilled laborers. 
D) Italian,Catholic,and skilled workers. 
E) Russian,Jewish,and unskilled workers. 
A) Irish,Catholic,and unskilled laborers. 
B) British,Protestant,and skilled workers. 
C) German,Protestant,and unskilled laborers. 
D) Italian,Catholic,and skilled workers. 
E) Russian,Jewish,and unskilled workers.

Question 13

Most immigrants in the 1850s joined the

Accepted Answer

A) Know-Nothing Party. 
B) Republican Party. 
C) Liberty Party. 
D) Democratic Party. 
E) Socialist Party. 
A) Know-Nothing Party. 
B) Republican Party. 
C) Liberty Party. 
D) Democratic Party. 
E) Socialist Party.

Question 14

In the mid-nineteenth-century American system of education,

Accepted Answer

A) most lower-class students worked as apprentices and did not attend school. 
B) ninety-five percent of white southerners and 20 percent of the slaves could read and write. 
C) was stronger in the North than in the South. 
D) most public school teachers were men. 
E) literacy was more common in the United States than in Europe. 
A) most lower-class students worked as apprentices and did not attend school. 
B) ninety-five percent of white southerners and 20 percent of the slaves could read and write. 
C) was stronger in the North than in the South. 
D) most public school teachers were men. 
E) literacy was more common in the United States than in Europe.

Question 15

The Know-Nothing Party was so named because its members were ignorant and uneducated.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The great enemy of a free-labor society was

Accepted Answer

A) commerce. 
B) slavery. 
C) agriculture. 
D) merchants. 
E) the government. 
A) commerce. 
B) slavery. 
C) agriculture. 
D) merchants. 
E) the government.

Question 17

How many Supreme Court Justices voted in favor of Dred Scott?

Accepted Answer

A) 0 
B) 1 
C) 2 
D) 3 
E) 4 
A) 0 
B) 1 
C) 2 
D) 3 
E) 4

Question 18

The subject of Charles Sumner's speech that led to his beating on the floor of Congress was

Accepted Answer

A) the hanging of John Brown. 
B) the Dred Scott Decision. 
C) the Compromise of 1850 
D) the Fugitive Slave Act 
E) "Bleeding Kansas." 
A) the hanging of John Brown. 
B) the Dred Scott Decision. 
C) the Compromise of 1850 
D) the Fugitive Slave Act 
E) "Bleeding Kansas."

Question 19

IDENTIFICATIONS
-George Fitzhugh

Accepted Answer

a farmer-lawyer from Virginia who defend

Question 20

Examine the controversy involving the Kansas-Nebraska Act.What were the issues involved and how were they resolved?

Accepted Answer

The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)was the re

Exam 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

No southern justices supported the Dred Scott decision.

The leading advocate for southern economic diversification was James D.B.De Bow.

About ____________________ "border ruffians" from Missouri voted illegally in the spring of 1855 to elect a proslavery territorial legislature in Kansas.

Most northerners left the Know-Nothings and became Republicans because of

The Lecompton Constitution was invalid because it was written by the antislavery minority in the proslavery territory of Kansas.

Four million immigrants came to the United States between 1845 and 1860.

Abraham Lincoln saw the prevention of the expansion of slavery into the territories as the first step to its eventual extinction.

Most of the foreign-born voters in the 1830s and 1840s joined the Democratic Party.

By 1855,cotton provided more than ____ of total U.S.exports.

Examine the important repercussions of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.

The first year that the Republican Party ran a presidential candidate was 1854.

Most immigrants between 1800 and 1830 were

Most immigrants in the 1850s joined the

In the mid-nineteenth-century American system of education,

The Know-Nothing Party was so named because its members were ignorant and uneducated.

The great enemy of a free-labor society was

How many Supreme Court Justices voted in favor of Dred Scott?

The subject of Charles Sumner's speech that led to his beating on the floor of Congress was

IDENTIFICATIONS -George Fitzhugh

Examine the controversy involving the Kansas-Nebraska Act.What were the issues involved and how were they resolved?

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England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, liberty, and Expansion

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

Reform, resistance, revolution

The Revolutionary Republic

Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815

Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

The Old South, 1790-1850

Toward an American Culture

Whigs and Democrats

Antebellum Reform

Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or Slavery

Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900

The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920

Progressivism

Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917

War and Society, 1914-1920

The 1920s

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

America During the Second World War

The Age of Containment, 1946-1953

Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963

America During Its Longest War, 1963-1974

Uncertain Times, 1974-1992

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