APUSH P5 CQ #2 5.4-5.7

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850’s?

• The admission of California as a free state

• The establishment of the principle of popular sovereignty in the Mexican cession

• The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law

• The ban on the slave trade in the District of Columbia

Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?

• They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories.

• They were active supporters of complete abolition.

• They advocated expansion of the slave system to provide cheap labor for northern factories.

• They favored continued importation of slaves from Africa.

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 principle of popular sovereignty.

• It freed Scott, but not other slaves in circumstances similar to Scott’s.

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.

• Slaves residing in a free state automatically became free.

• Through squatter sovereignty, a territory had the sole right to determine the status of slavery within its territorial limits.

Popular Sovereignty

• is an ideal that advocates rule by the people and was used in this era to call for votes on issues regarding slavery in new territories

• was the core ideal behind the Missouri Compromise

• was an ideal focused on preventing the spread of slavery into new territories

• was a movement focused on making slavery illegal in all of the United States

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

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

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

• the exclusion of slavery from United States territorial possessions

• the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?

• The Dred Scott decision

• The election of 1860

• The Wilmot Proviso

• John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

All of the following are true about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 except it

• was a key provision of the Wilmot Proviso. Without the inclusion of the act the Proviso would not have passed through Congress

• Required slaves to be returned to owners, even if they were in a free state.

• made the Federal Government responsible for finding, returning and trying escaped slaves

• led to free African Americans being seized and forced into slavery