STAAR Quiz #3

What is the best title for this map?

• Eastward Migration

• Results of the Revolution

• Territorial Expansion

• Immigration Before the Civil War

Why did Mormons migrate to the western United States?

• To pursue gold mining

• To avoid the slavery conflict

• To take advantage of cheap farmland

• To escape religious persecution

The quotation above describes the nineteenth-century American Belief in..

• The Social Contract

• Manifest Destiny

• Isolationism

• The Monroe Doctrine

On what grounds would strict constructionists of the United States Constitution have questioned the purchase of the Louisiana Territory?

• It violated the guarantee of states' rights

• The president was not specifically give the power to purchase new land

• Congress was opposed to expansion west of the Mississippi River

• The Constitution applied only to the original thirteen states

Sectional rivalries during the period from 1820 to 1860 centered mainly around the issues of...

• Foreign policy, the abolition of slavery and the currency system

• States rights, the extension of slavery, and tariffs

• Tariffs, the currency system, and trust regulation

• Conservation, foreign policy, and women's suffrage

In the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to...

• Allow northern states the power to ban slavery

• Deny southern states the legal right to own slaves

• Allow settlers in new territories to vote on the issue of slavery

• Overturn previous Supreme Court decisions on slavery

This poster from the 1850s appeared in response to the...

• Passage of the fugitive slave law

• Start of the Civil War

• Issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• Enactment of the 13th Amendment

Which ever was the immediate cause of the secession of several Southern states from the Union in 1860?

• The Dred Scott decision, which declared that all prior compromises on the extension of slavery into the territories were unconstitutional

• The Missouri Compromise, which kept an even balance between the number of free and slave states

• The raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, which was led by the militant abolitionist John Brown

• The election of President Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery into the territories

Which statement best explains President Abraham Lincoln's justification for the Civil War?

• As and abolitionists, President Lincoln wanted to end slavery in the United States

• President Lincoln wanted to keep the south economically dependent on the industrial North

• President Lincoln's oath of office required him to defend and preserve the Union

• To keep the support of Great Britain and France, President Lincoln had to try to end slavery immediately

Why can the Emancipation Proclamation be seen as a diplomatic document?

• It made it hard for foreign nations to recognize and support the Confederacy

• It warned European nations to stay out of affairs in the Western Hemisphere

• It called on England and France to sell weapons to the Union army

• It encouraged France to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States