Unit 16 Quiz

This map and the election of 1860 illustrate the concept of...

• Nullification

• Federalism

• Sectionalism

• Republicanism

Why did many Irish immigrants settled in Northeastern cities?

• they settled in the south

• they were not farmers

• they lacked the money to move west

• there was no farmland in the west

Which is not true about the northern economy?

• Mostly manufacturig

• railroads, canals and roads

• rocky soil, forests, short growing season

• economy based on agriculture

What was the consequence of the California Gold Rush

• California declared independence from Mexico

• Population increased and California became a state

• the U.S. declared war Mexico over California

• California became the only gold producing state in the nation

Why did Mormons move west?

• religious persecution

• to buy cheap land

• to find gold

• to gain statehood for California

Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and Kansas Nebraska all dealt with what issue?

• slavery in the territories

• territories becoming states

• fighting abolitionist

• territories becoming states

Issues like Slavery and tariffs addressed which constitutional issue?

• Representation in Congress

• Popular Sovereignty

• States Rights

• Republicanism

This Compromise in 1820 settled the issue of slavery for a while.

• Great Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

Lincoln in a message to Congress in 1861 proposed if this issue was constitutional.

• Slavery

• sucession

• rights of citizens

• states rights

Andrew Jackson invasion showed that this territory was weak. Instead of war the U.S. paid $5 million

• Texas Annexation

• Mesican Cession

• Oregon Territory

• Adams- Onis Treaty