Unit 5

Which of the following was the primary cause for the development depicted in the painting?

• A desire for economic opportunity through settlement and access to new resources

• Persecuted groups searching for religious freedom and refuge in the West

• Increased immigration resulted in less available land in the East

• Slave-holding interests in the South demanded more land for cotton production

The painting represents a continuation of which of the following developments in the first half of the 19th Century?

• Mexican-American War

• Indian Removal Act

• American System

• Missouri Compromise

Which of the following was an effect of westward expansion?

• Native Americans quickly assimilated to an idealized industrial-age lifestyle

• Expanded diplomatic and economic ties between the United States and Asia

• Agricultural production increased while industrial development decreased

• decline in sectional tensions over the issue of slavery

The changes depicted in the maps were primarily caused by which of the following?

• Unwillingness by Congress to engage in political compromise

• The debate over the extension of slavery into western territories

• Settlers in western territories voted on their new borders

• Supreme Court decisions such as Scott v. Sanford

Which of the following was a direct effect of the changes depicted in the maps?

• a. Sectional tensions eroded political loyalties, ending the Second Party System

• Lincoln’s election in 1860 without electoral votes from western states and territories

• South Carolina seceded from the Union due to violence in Kansas

• Emergence of violent conflict along the border of the Utah and New Mexico territories

The maps reflect all of the following political compromises except the

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1877

Which of the following groups would most likely agree with the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

• Northern industrial workers

• Free-Soilers

• Southern landowners

• Recent immigrants from Europe

The ideas expressed in the excerpt contributed to all of the following trends after the Civil War except

• the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan

• the widespread use of sharecropping in the South

• the election of former slaves into Congress

• the election of former slaves into Congress

Which of the following most directly contradicts the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

• The passage of the 13th and 14th Amendments

• The recruitment of blacks into the Union army

• The establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau

• Federal troops occupying the South until 1877

The ideas expressed in the excerpt are most consistent with which of the following?

• The rise of nativist sentiments in the 1840s and 1850s

• The sectional split in Protestant Christian denominations

• The principle of popular sovereignty in Western territories

• The premise of slavery as a positive good in the pre-war period