Deck 12: Expansion, Slavery, and the Coming of the Civil War, 1848-1861

Question 1

The Revolutions of 1848 promoted​

A)abolitionism.
B)racial equality.
C)nationalism and republicanism.
D)imperialism.
E)monarchical interests.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The Wilmot Proviso​

A)encouraged slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.
B)sought to prevent slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.
C)lead the South to secede.
D)wanted the decision on slavery in the western territories to be left up to popular sovereignty.
E)called for compensated emancipation of slaves.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is true about the Compromise of 1850?​

A)It was highly debated in Congress.
B)California was admitted as a free state.
C)It prohibited the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
D)Slavery was permitted in New Mexico and Utah territories under popular sovereignty.
E)All of these are correct.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Young America promoted​

A)emancipation.
B)slavery.
C)expansion of U.S. influence.
D)isolationism.
E)restoration of Indian territories.

Question 5

The principle of free soil promoted​

A)emancipation.
B)that free territory should be given to settlers out west who developed the land.
C)that Congress had the right to restrict slavery in the western territories.
D)that Congress did not have the right to restrict slavery in the western territories.
E)None of these are correct.​

Question 6

Americans built the first transcontinental railroad outside the nation's borders.​

Question 7

Martin Delaney advanced the notion that free blacks and runaway slaves build a black homeland in Central America and West Africa.

Question 8

California became so populated during the Gold Rush that it skipped territorial status and qualified for statehood.​

Question 9

The principle of popular sovereignty argued that ultimately, _______________ ____  should have the power to decide whether or not there would be slavery in a particular territory.​

A)Congress
B)the president
C)the territory's residents
D)the territorial governor
E)the territorial legislature

Question 10

The border states seceded from the Union right after South Carolina.​

Question 11

The Free Soil Party appealed to all of the following except

A)Democrats who favored the Wilmot Proviso.
B)anti-slavery Whigs.
C)former Liberty Party Men.
D)pro-slavery southern Democrats.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 12

The Revolutions of 1848 were permanent and lead to long-established republics.​

Question 13

The Communist Manifesto was published by

A)Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
B)Louis Kossuth.
C)Louis Napoleon.
D)Nathaniel Hawthorne
E)None of these are correct.

Question 14

The election of 1852 was won by

A)Franklin Pierce.
B)Martin Van Buren.
C)John P. Hale.
D)Winfield Scott.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 15

Political machines relied on rewards to gain voter loyalty.​

Question 16

Americans welcomed the news of the Revolutions of 1848 with massive rallies in several American cities.

Question 17

John Brown emerged from his raid on Harper's Ferryas a national hero and lived to see the conclusion of the Civil War.

Question 18

The Crittenden Compromise postponed secession for two years.​

Question 19

After the Compromise of 1850, there was a major realignment within the United States' major political parties.​

Question 20

The Revolutions of 1848 spread through​

A)the United States.
B)Europe.
C)Mexico.
D)Latin America.
E)the American South.

Question 21

The "Great Hunger" was a potato famine that took place in

A)England.
B)Ireland.
C)France.
D)Spain.​
E)Italy.

Question 22

_______________ ____  proposed organizing the Louisiana Purchase territorieswest of the Missouri River.

A)Henry Clay.
B)Stephen Douglass.
C)Abraham Lincoln.
D)Franklin Pierce.
E)John C. Calhoun.

Question 23

The Ostend Manifesto​

A)called for the United States to purchase or seize Cuba.
B)was written in 1854.
C)was addressed to President Pierce.​
D)led to the purchase of Cuba making its way onto the Democratic Party platform.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 24

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in​

A)1845.
B)1847.
C)1850.
D)1852.
E)1854.

Question 25

A treaty of Hawaiian annexation​

A)was proposed in 1854.
B)was promoted by Americans who held key ministerial posts.
C)was negotiated by an envoy of President Pierce.
D)was never signed due to debates over the issue of slavery.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 26

Which of the following was a motivating factor for the expansion of United States influence in Asia?​

A)commercial opportunity
B)it was seen as the culminating phase in frontier expansion​
C)the potential spread of Protestant Christianity
D)the potential spread of Western science and republican institutions
E)All of these are correct.

Question 27

In 1855, William Walker, through the use of military force, declared himself the president of

A)Mexico.
B)Panama.
C)Nicaragua.
D)Baja California.
E)Colombia.

Question 28

The Underground Railroad​

A)helped slaves escape to the North.
B)helped return escaped slaves to their owners.
C)helped recruit anti-slavery voters for territorial elections.
D)was a political party.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 29

The most famous of the Underground Railroad conductors was

A)Harriet Tubman.
B)Stephen Douglass.
C)Dred Scott.
D)William Lloyd Garrison.
E)Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Question 30

The Taiping Rebellion​

A)left more than 20 million people dead.
B)took place in China.
C)took place from 1850-1864.
D)was the century's bloodiest civil war.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 31

The Ostend Manifesto was addressed to

A)Cuba.
B)Spain.
C)the United States.
D)Mexico.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 32

Which of the following was not a principle of the Young Americans?​

A)championing of American literature
B)the promotion of railroads
C)the promotion of western settlement
D)opposition to the Democratic party.
E)support for republican movements abroad

Question 33

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850​

A)added stricter restrictions than those of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.
B)was part of the Compromise of 1850.
C)strengthened the federal government's control over the capture and prosecution of runaway slaves.
D)denied captured suspects a trial by jury.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 34

Uncle Tom's Cabin

A)was a sentimental tale about slaves and slavery.
B)sold 250,000 copies in its first year of publication.
C)was condemned by Southerners as misleading propaganda.
D)was accepted by Northerners as an accurate portrayal of slavery.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 35

The North Star promoted

A)slavery.
B)abolitionism.
C)missionary efforts abroad.
D)imperialism.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 36

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in

A)1848.
B)1850.
C)1852.
D)1854.
E)1856.

Question 37

The Kansas-Nebraska​ Act

A)divided the unorganized Louisiana Purchase territories into the Kansas and Nebraska.
B)left the issue of slavery up to popular sovereignty.
C)fueled sectional division.
D)overturned the territorial restrictions on slavery established by the Missouri Compromise.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 38

The main purpose behind organizing the Louisiana Purchase territory west of the Missouri River was

A)the resolve the issue of slavery.
B)to resolve the issue of resettling Native Americans.
C)to enable the building of a transcontinental railroad.
D)to encourage the establishment of abolitionist governments in the region.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 39

The Treaty of Kanagawa​

A)was signed in 1854.
B)was a treaty between the United States and Japan.
C)was an unequal treaty.
D)provided protection for shipwrecked crews on American vessels.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 40

Which of the following is not true about Harriet Beecher Stowe?

A)She was an abolitionist.
B)She had never seen a slave plantation.
C)Her family had harbored runaway slaves in their home.
D)She and her family were from Georgia.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 41

Lecompton Constitution

A)was a proslavery constitution.
B)was not ratified by Congress.
C)was written for Kansas.
D)was drafted in 1857.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 42

Which of the following was not a border state?

A)Maryland.
B)Missouri.
C)Tennessee.
D)Delaware.
E)Kentucky.

Question 43

Which of the following is true about the election of 1860?​

A)It was a four-way race.
B)Lincoln won every northern state except New Jersey.
C)Lincoln won a plurality in the popular vote.
D)Lincoln won a decisive victory in the electoral college.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 44

Which of the following is not true about the Dred Scott decision?​

A)It was passed in 1857.
B)It stated that blacks were ineligible for citizenship.
C)It granted Dred Scott his freedom.
D)It declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 45

The main issue of the Republican Party platform was

A)advocating for the rights of slaveholders.
B)stopping the spread of slavery into the western territories.
C)stopping the flow of immigrants into the United States.
D)encouraging American expansionism abroad.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 46

Most of the immigrants who came to the United States from 1831-1860 came from

A)Italy.
B)Germany.
C)Ireland.
D)England.
E)China.

Question 47

The Republican Party was formed in

A)1845.
B)1847.
C)1848.
D)1854.
E)1858.

Question 48

The Know-Nothings were a(n)_______________ ____  political party.​

A)anti-immigrant
B)anti-slavery
C)pro-slavery
D)pro-immigration
E)pro-Native American rights

Question 49

Bleeding Kansas was a conflict between​

A)Native Americans and white settlers.
B)slaves and slave owners.
C)settlers and tax collectors.
D)pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 50

The fire eaters defended

A)factory laborers in the Northeast.
B)the rights of slaves.
C)the interest of slave owners.
D)the rights of immigrants.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 51

The Civil War began in

A)1859.
B)1860.
C)1861.
D)1862.
E)1863.

Question 52

Southern slaveholders​

A)rejected compensated emancipation.
B)wanted to expand slavery into the frontier.
C)formed a sectional block since slavery was concentrated in one region of the country.
D)imagined the Confederacy as a successful independent nation due to world-wide demand for cotton.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 53

After the battle at Fort Sumter,​

A)Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand Union militiamen.
B)Four more states seceded.
C)The Confederate capital was moved to Richmond.
D)Both sides in the war formed definitively.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 54

John Brown's Raid took place in

A)1849.
B)1852.
C)1854.
D)1859.
E)1860.

Question 55

Bleeding Kansas took place in

A)1845.
B)1846.​
C)1848.
D)1852.
E)1856.

Question 56

Besides the United States, the only other nation where abolition came as a result of warfare was​

A)Haiti.
B)Cuba.
C)Brazil.
D)Panama.
E)Colombia.

Question 57

The Crittenden Compromise was intended to

A)fuel secession.
B)stop secession.
C)fuel abolitionism.
D)contest the results of the 1860 election.
E)punish the southern states that sought to secede.

Question 58

The first state to pass an ordinance of secession was

A)Georgia.
B)South Carolina.
C)Mississippi.
D)North Carolina.
E)Florida.

Question 59

The Civil War began in

A)Fort Anderson.
B)Harpers' Ferry.
C)Fort Sumter.
D)Richmond.
E)Pensacola.

Question 60

John Brown's Raid took place in

A)Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
B)Richmond, Virginia.
C)Charleston, South Carolina.
D)Raleigh, North Carolina.
E)New Orleans, Louisiana.

Question 61

Talk about:  free soil​

Question 62

Talk about:  spheres of influence

Question 63

Talk about:  Narciso López

Question 64

Talk about:  Stephen Douglass​

Question 65

Talk about:  Lewis Cass​

Question 66

Talk about: Wilmot Proviso​

Question 67

Talk about:  Henry Clay​

Question 68

Talk about:  Louis Napoleon

Question 69

Talk about:  unequal treaties​

Question 70

Talk about:  William Walker​

Question 71

Talk about:  Young America​

Question 72

Talk about:  popular sovereignty

Question 73

Talk about:  John C. Calhoun​

Question 74

Talk about:  Compromise of 1850​

Question 75

Talk about:  Revolutions of 1848

Question 76

Talk about:  Clayton-Bulwer Treaty​

Question 77

Talk about:  Taiping Rebellion​

Question 78

Talk about:  Ostend Manifesto​

Question 79

Talk about:  Treaty of Kanagawa​

Question 80

Talk about:  Franklin Pierce