Dividing Nation - Makeup Test

Which of the following contributed to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin drew enthusiastic audiences of Northern readers and theatergoers.

• Groups like the New England Emigrant Aid Company worked to make Kansas a free state.

• Some prominent Northern intellectuals like Henry David Thoreau praised John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.

• all of these

Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT

• the clash of economic interests between agrarian and industrializing regions

• the actions of irresponsible politicians and agitators in the North and the South

• differences over the morality and future of slavery

• the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery

The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the

• measure’s endorsement of popular sovereignty

• admittance of Missouri as a slave state and the establishment of the 36°30' line

• passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act

• admittance of Texas as a slave state

Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

• It recognized the power of Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories, but refused on technical grounds to free Scott.

• It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

• It upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise.

• It upheld the principle of popular sovereignty.

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

• A Missouri slaveholder

• Stephen Douglas

• A midwestern investor in a Pacific-to-Chicago railroad line

• A New England abolitionist

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

• prohibit slavery above Missouri’s southern border

• assure that Congress had a constitutional right to establish or abolish slavery in new territories

• allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there

• admit Kansas as a slave state and Nebraska as a free state

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?

• The Missouri Compromise in 1820

• The forced removal of American Indians

• The funding of internal improvements under the American System

• The annexation of Texas in 1836

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT

• higher protective tariffs

• government subsidies for a transcontinental railroad

• free western land for settlers who would live and work on it

• the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT:

• Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.

• The ultimate extent of the American domain was to be from the tropics to the Arctic.

• Westward expansion was both inevitable and beneficial.

• God had selected America as a chosen land and peopl

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

• suffered a military defeat

• freed Texas from Mexican rule

• won control of Cuba from Spain

• experienced increasing tension over the issue of slavery