Chapter 14

Chapter 14

11th Grade

48 Qs

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Chapter 14

Chapter 14

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

feared the expansion of slavery in the west would be competition for white labor.
cost Henry Clay the presidency by siphoning off votes from him in New York.
was powerful enough to convince James Polk not to seek reelection.
strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso but agreed to let it pass as part of a compromise.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?

Transportation in the South
Popular sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Act
Representation in Congress

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

California would enter the Union as a free state.
The slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C.
The territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada would be created.
A tougher fugitive slave law would be enacted.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks:

showed the extreme violence of which northern abolitionists were capable.
actually helped the new Republican Party.
was denounced by most southerners as barbaric.
was unusual because both men were proslavery Democrats.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision because

the Court included no Republican Justices
the decision allowed slavery in the territories
several justices were slave owners
blacks and whites were not treated equally

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?

Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.
Members of the abolitionist Republican Party, formed in 1844, insisted on debating slavery.
President John Tyler’s antislavery policies cause a major proslavery backlash led by John C. Calhoun.
As the 1848 Constitutional deadline for ending the African slave trade drew near, Americans became obsessed with s

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

One impact of the Mexican-American War was...

The United States got a large area of land in the Southwest
Native Americans were given more land for reservations
France no longer had colonies in North America
Great Britain gave Alaska to the US

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