Question 1

The Lecompton debate seriously split the Democratic Party.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

On average,wages and opportunities for workers were greater in the North than anywhere else.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

____ asserted that southern slaves enjoyed a higher standard of living than northern laborers.

Accepted Answer

A) Hinton R.Helper 
B) George Fitzhugh 
C) William Seward 
D) James D.B.De Bow 
E) James Buchanan 
A) Hinton R.Helper 
B) George Fitzhugh 
C) William Seward 
D) James D.B.De Bow 
E) James Buchanan

Question 4

Which of the following was not among the nation's four leading industries measured by value added in manufacturing by 1860?

Accepted Answer

A) cotton textiles 
B) floor milling 
C) lumber products 
D) boots and shoes 
E) iron and steel 
A) cotton textiles 
B) floor milling 
C) lumber products 
D) boots and shoes 
E) iron and steel

Question 5

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Know-Nothing Party

Accepted Answer

nativist,anti-Catholic,political party t

Question 6

In the Kansas territorial election of 1855,

Accepted Answer

A) approximately five thousand Missourians illegally voted. 
B) a free-soil legislature was elected. 
C) women were allowed to vote. 
D) slavery was abolished in the area. 
E) blacks were allowed to vote. 
A) approximately five thousand Missourians illegally voted. 
B) a free-soil legislature was elected. 
C) women were allowed to vote. 
D) slavery was abolished in the area. 
E) blacks were allowed to vote.

Question 7

The gap between the rich and poor was larger in the north than in the south.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Franklin Pierce was president during the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska bill.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The Dred Scott decision was unanimous.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Who of the following would have argued that "freedom is not possible without slavery"?

Accepted Answer

A) Stephen Douglas 
B) John C.Calhoun 
C) James Buchanan 
D) Henry Clay 
E) Nathaniel Hawthorne 
A) Stephen Douglas 
B) John C.Calhoun 
C) James Buchanan 
D) Henry Clay 
E) Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 11

Most immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s 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 12

A feature of modern industry that utilizes machines to cut identical parts that fit together with other parts produced in the same way is mass production of ____________________.

Accepted Answer

Interchang

Question 13

With regard to the Kansas issue,President Franklin Pierce

Accepted Answer

A) endorsed John Brown's abolitionist campaign. 
B) recognized the antislavery legislature. 
C) recognized the proslavery legislature. 
D) refused to get involved in the conflict. 
E) asked Kansas to secede from the Union. 
A) endorsed John Brown's abolitionist campaign. 
B) recognized the antislavery legislature. 
C) recognized the proslavery legislature. 
D) refused to get involved in the conflict. 
E) asked Kansas to secede from the Union.

Question 14

Most railroad construction was in the south.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Economic diversification made no headway in the South during the 1850s.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The Dred Scott decision finally settled the slavery question.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Freeport Doctrine

Accepted Answer

Stephen Douglas' attempt to reconcile th

Question 18

By 1855,after the volume of immigration dropped by more than half,____________________ faded from the American landscape.

Accepted Answer

The answer of By 1855,after the volume of immigration dropped...

Question 19

The Kansas-Nebraska bill passed easily in the House of Representatives.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The cover of De Bow's Review proclaimed that "Cotton is King."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

The Lecompton debate seriously split the Democratic Party.

On average,wages and opportunities for workers were greater in the North than anywhere else.

____ asserted that southern slaves enjoyed a higher standard of living than northern laborers.

Which of the following was not among the nation's four leading industries measured by value added in manufacturing by 1860?

IDENTIFICATIONS -Know-Nothing Party

In the Kansas territorial election of 1855,

The gap between the rich and poor was larger in the north than in the south.

Franklin Pierce was president during the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska bill.

The Dred Scott decision was unanimous.

Who of the following would have argued that "freedom is not possible without slavery"?

Most immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s were

A feature of modern industry that utilizes machines to cut identical parts that fit together with other parts produced in the same way is mass production of ____________________.

With regard to the Kansas issue,President Franklin Pierce

Most railroad construction was in the south.

Economic diversification made no headway in the South during the 1850s.

The Dred Scott decision finally settled the slavery question.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Freeport Doctrine

By 1855,after the volume of immigration dropped by more than half,____________________ faded from the American landscape.

The Kansas-Nebraska bill passed easily in the House of Representatives.

The cover of De Bow's Review proclaimed that "Cotton is King."

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England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, liberty, and Expansion

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

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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

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A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

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

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War and Society, 1914-1920

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America During the Second World War

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Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963

America During Its Longest War, 1963-1974

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