Question 1

Why did the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860?

Accepted Answer

A)  He was the most experienced and respected Republican politician. 
B)  He had already defeated Stephen A.Douglas in the senatorial election in 1858. 
C)  He appealed to both northern and southern voters. 
D)  His egalitarian image would attract votes among farmers and workers. 
A)  He was the most experienced and respected Republican politician. 
B)  He had already defeated Stephen A.Douglas in the senatorial election in 1858. 
C)  He appealed to both northern and southern voters. 
D)  His egalitarian image would attract votes among farmers and workers.

Question 2

Answer the following  questions :
-conscience Whigs

Accepted Answer

A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens. 
A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens.

Question 3

What issues were resolved by the Compromise of 1850? Who benefitted more from its terms,the North or the South? Why?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Impact o

Question 4

Answer the following  questions :
-popular sovereignty

Accepted Answer

A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens. 
A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens.

Question 5

How did Lincoln's position on slavery differ from that of Stephen Douglas?

Accepted Answer

He advocated the gradual emancipation of

Question 6

What were the main constitutional arguments advanced during the debate over slavery in the territories in the nineteenth century? Which of those arguments influenced Chief Justice Roger Taney's opinion in the Dred Scott case?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Constitu

Question 7

Why did President-Elect Lincoln not support the Crittenden Compromise and possibly avoid civil war?

Accepted Answer

A)  The compromise,in Lincoln's mind,did not protect slaveholders' property rights. 
B)  The president-elect would not compromise on the issue of slavery in the territories. 
C)  Lincoln felt the law did not address the issue of slavery in Washington,D.C. ,adequately. 
D)  Crittenden did not support compensation for the slaves the compromise would have emancipated. 
A)  The compromise,in Lincoln's mind,did not protect slaveholders' property rights. 
B)  The president-elect would not compromise on the issue of slavery in the territories. 
C)  Lincoln felt the law did not address the issue of slavery in Washington,D.C. ,adequately. 
D)  Crittenden did not support compensation for the slaves the compromise would have emancipated.

Question 8

Which of the following scenarios occurred during the 1856 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Republicans emerged as a formidable replacement for the Whigs and came close to winning the election. 
B)  The Republicans drew strong support from the West and the Midwest but little support from the Northeast or the South. 
C)  Millard Fillmore,running on the American (or Know-Nothing)Party ticket,divided the antislavery and nativist vote in all parts of the country. 
D)  Democrats forged a strong coalition with former southern Whigs based on popular sovereignty. 
A)  The Republicans emerged as a formidable replacement for the Whigs and came close to winning the election. 
B)  The Republicans drew strong support from the West and the Midwest but little support from the Northeast or the South. 
C)  Millard Fillmore,running on the American (or Know-Nothing)Party ticket,divided the antislavery and nativist vote in all parts of the country. 
D)  Democrats forged a strong coalition with former southern Whigs based on popular sovereignty.

Question 9

What happened in Christiana,Pennsylvania,in 1851?

Accepted Answer

A)  Abolitionist Theodore Parker defied the Fugitive Slave Act by helping two slaves escape to freedom. 
B)  About twenty African Americans fought a gun battle with slave catchers,killing two;a jury subsequently acquitted one defendant,and the government dropped charges against the rest. 
C)  Rioters marched into a courthouse,forced their way into the courtroom,and freed a fugitive slave facing trial. 
D)  Frederick Douglass declared that "the only way to make a Fugitive Slave Law a dead letter is to make a half dozen or more dead kidnappers." 
A)  Abolitionist Theodore Parker defied the Fugitive Slave Act by helping two slaves escape to freedom. 
B)  About twenty African Americans fought a gun battle with slave catchers,killing two;a jury subsequently acquitted one defendant,and the government dropped charges against the rest. 
C)  Rioters marched into a courthouse,forced their way into the courtroom,and freed a fugitive slave facing trial. 
D)  Frederick Douglass declared that "the only way to make a Fugitive Slave Law a dead letter is to make a half dozen or more dead kidnappers."

Question 10

Answer the following  questions :
-Foreign Miners' Tax

Accepted Answer

A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens. 
A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens.

Question 11

Which of the following aided the new Republican Party to win the presidency in 1860?

Accepted Answer

A)  The broad Republican appeal in the slaveholding South 
B)  Republican candidate John C.Breckinridge's personal appeal 
C)  The split in the Democratic Party into northern and southern factions 
D)  The Republican victory in the states of New Jersey and Missouri 
A)  The broad Republican appeal in the slaveholding South 
B)  Republican candidate John C.Breckinridge's personal appeal 
C)  The split in the Democratic Party into northern and southern factions 
D)  The Republican victory in the states of New Jersey and Missouri

Question 12

Which of the following characterizes patterns of immigration into the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Most immigrants settled in the South to take advantage of jobs in industry and agriculture. 
B)  Most of the Irish who arrived in the United States were poverty-stricken peasants. 
C)  The largest group of immigrants arriving came from Eastern and Southern Europe. 
D)  The poorest immigrants arriving in the United States came from Wales and Scotland. 
A)  Most immigrants settled in the South to take advantage of jobs in industry and agriculture. 
B)  Most of the Irish who arrived in the United States were poverty-stricken peasants. 
C)  The largest group of immigrants arriving came from Eastern and Southern Europe. 
D)  The poorest immigrants arriving in the United States came from Wales and Scotland.

Question 13

Answer the following  questions :
-Treaty of Kanagawa

Accepted Answer

A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens. 
A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens.

Question 14

Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women 
B)  Irish immigrants 
C)  Native Americans 
D)  Free blacks 
A)  Women 
B)  Irish immigrants 
C)  Native Americans 
D)  Free blacks

Question 15

Did the Republicans win the election of 1860,or did the Democrats lose it? Explain your answer.

Accepted Answer

To maximize their chances,they nominated

Question 16

Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?

Accepted Answer

A)  Admission of California as a slave state 
B)  Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act 
C)  Popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska 
D)  Abolition of slavery in Washington,D.C. 
A)  Admission of California as a slave state 
B)  Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act 
C)  Popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska 
D)  Abolition of slavery in Washington,D.C.

Question 17

Which of the following statements describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was quickly ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. 
B)  Washington,D.C. ,was not subject to its enforcement. 
C)  The act prevented southern slave catchers from entering free states. 
D)  It denied alleged runaways a jury trial or the right to testify in their own defense. 
A)  It was quickly ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. 
B)  Washington,D.C. ,was not subject to its enforcement. 
C)  The act prevented southern slave catchers from entering free states. 
D)  It denied alleged runaways a jury trial or the right to testify in their own defense.

Question 18

The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring

Accepted Answer

A)  a proposal to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific. 
B)  an economic boycott of the South. 
C)  a clamor for popular sovereignty. 
D)  personal-liberty laws. 
A)  a proposal to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific. 
B)  an economic boycott of the South. 
C)  a clamor for popular sovereignty. 
D)  personal-liberty laws.

Question 19

Answer the following  questions :
-Kansas-Nebraska Act

Accepted Answer

A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens. 
A) Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848). 
B) Whig politicians who opposed the U.S.-Mexico War on moral grounds,maintaining that the purpose of the war was to expand and perpetuate control of the national government. 
C) The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. 
D) The political argument,made by abolitionists,free soilers,and Republicans in the pre-Civil War years,that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution,as well as their clout within the Democratic Party,to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba)that the majority of American voters would not support. 
E) A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery.In 1848 members of this movement organized their own political party,which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society,arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
F)A discriminatory tax adopted in 1850 in the California Territory,that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.The tax effectively drove these miners from the gold fields.
G)A plan,first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as "squatter sovereignty," then revised as "popular sovereignty" by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas,under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave.
H)The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush.
I)Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories.Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act.
J)Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents,including alleged fugitives,the right to a jury trial.
K)An 1854 treaty in which,after a show of military force by U.S.Commodore Matthew Perry,leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports.
L)A small slice of land (now part of Arizona and New Mexico)purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
M)Private paramilitary campaigns,mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s,to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders,with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States.
N)An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain.Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative,and the plan was scuttled.
O)A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment,and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location.
P)Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background,as expressed,for example,by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s.
Q)A controversial 1854 law that divided the Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska,repealed the Missouri Compromise,and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories,the Act led to violent conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."
R)The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott,who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free.The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens.

Question 20

Popular sovereignty solved which of the following issues temporarily?

Accepted Answer

A)  The dispute over state versus federal control over voter qualifications 
B)  Whether states had the right to secede from the Union 
C)  Whether Congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories 
D)  Whether states had to abide by federal laws that conflicted with state laws 
A)  The dispute over state versus federal control over voter qualifications 
B)  Whether states had the right to secede from the Union 
C)  Whether Congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories 
D)  Whether states had to abide by federal laws that conflicted with state laws

Exam 12: Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Why did the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860?

Answer the following questions : -conscience Whigs

What issues were resolved by the Compromise of 1850? Who benefitted more from its terms,the North or the South? Why?

Answer the following questions : -popular sovereignty

How did Lincoln's position on slavery differ from that of Stephen Douglas?

What were the main constitutional arguments advanced during the debate over slavery in the territories in the nineteenth century? Which of those arguments influenced Chief Justice Roger Taney's opinion in the Dred Scott case?

Why did President-Elect Lincoln not support the Crittenden Compromise and possibly avoid civil war?

Which of the following scenarios occurred during the 1856 presidential election?

What happened in Christiana,Pennsylvania,in 1851?

Answer the following questions : -Foreign Miners' Tax

Which of the following aided the new Republican Party to win the presidency in 1860?

Which of the following characterizes patterns of immigration into the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?

Answer the following questions : -Treaty of Kanagawa

Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America?

Did the Republicans win the election of 1860,or did the Democrats lose it? Explain your answer.

Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?

Which of the following statements describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring

Answer the following questions : -Kansas-Nebraska Act

Popular sovereignty solved which of the following issues temporarily?

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American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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