Period 5 FMQ's

Which of the following factors best explains the territorial expansion of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century?

• The belief in Manifest Destiny encouraged settlers to move to the West.

• The Mexican-American War incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.

• The rise of industry in the North created more demand for raw materials such as cotton.

• The growing nativist movement sought to place restrictions on new immigrants.

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

• freed Texas from Mexican rule

• experienced increasing tension over the issue of slavery

• experienced increasing tension over the acquisition of Puerto Rico

• won control of Cuba from Spain

The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?

• Admitted Texas to the Union as a slave state.

• Prohibited slavery in the District of Columbia.

• Admitted California to the Union under the principles of popular sovereignty.

• Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law.

The Union’s victory at Gettysburg was significant because it

• prompted Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

• halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North

• gave the Union control over the Mississippi River

• caused the Confederacy to surrender

Which of the following occurred during Radical Reconstruction?

• The passage of the Black Codes

• A permanent shift of Southern voters to the Republican Party

• The formation of the Ku Klux Klan

• Widespread redistribution of confiscated land to former slaves

All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the

• enforcement of a new fugitive slave law

• decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case

• passage of the Wilmot Proviso

• proposal of the Ostend Manifesto

Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported

• immediate abolition of slavery

• homesteads in the western territories

• restrictions on Catholics’ holding public office

• restoration of a national bank

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 abolition of slavery throughout the United States

• the exclusion of slavery from United States territorial possessions

The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for

• the prohibition of slavery in Louisiana Purchase territory

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

• federal return of fugitive slaves

Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?

• They were limited to noncombat duty.

• For most of the war, they were led by African American officers.

• They were barred form receiving awards for valor in combat.

• For most of the war, they were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.