Period 5 Quiz

The primary objective of the founders of the Know-Nothing party was the

• abolition of slavery

• establishment of free public schools

• prohibition of communitarian experiments

• restriction of the rights of immigrants

Anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s had the most in common with which of the following earlier developments?

• The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), which limited rights for foreign-born residents

• The conflict between Patriots and Loyalists during the American Revolution

• The persecution of religious dissenters in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• The signing of the Treaty of Greenville (1794) that ended wars between the United States and Native Americans in the Northwest Territory

The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?

Responses

• An undisputed claim to Oregon

• Control of the sugar trade with Cuba

• Possession of California and most of the Southwest

• The right to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama

A significant result of the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848 was that the United States

• suffered a military defeat

• won control of Cuba from Spain

• experienced increasing tension over the issue of slavery

• freed Texas from Mexican rule

The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for

• the prohibition of slavery in Louisiana Purchase territory

• the primacy of federal law over state-legislated Black Codes

• the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War

• federal return of fugitive slaves

Which of the following states the principle of “popular sovereignty?”

• Congress has the right to decide where slavery shall and shall not exist.

• The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.

• Individual citizens can decide for themselves whether or not to hold slaves.

• Individual states have the right to reject congressional decisions pertaining to slavery.

The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in

• Texas

• California

• Kansas

• Missouri

Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• A Missouri slaveholder

• Stephen Douglas

• A New England abolitionist

• A Southern supporter of popular sovereignty

The Republican party originated in the mid-1850’s as a sectional party committed to which of the following?

• Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories

• Immediate emancipation of the slaves

• Restriction of immigration

• Acknowledgement of popular sovereignty as the basis for organizing federal territories

Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?

• Congress could abolish slavery at will.

• National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.

• The rights of all people are protected by the Constitution.

• Slaves residing in a free state automatically became free.