Unit 2 - Topic 2 Expansion & Sectionalism Post Assessment

Which claim is supported by both Documents 1 and 2?

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin painted an inaccurate picture of slavery

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin scared pro-slavery critics

• Harriet Beecher Stowe influenced President Lincoln

• Harriet Beecher Stowe was an influential abolitionist

According to Document 2, what was a major effect of the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• More Americans learned how to read in order to read the book

• Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States

• The Abolitionist movement began across the United States

• Harriet Beecher Stowe became a figure in the women’s suffrage movement

Which statement best describes the purpose of the excerpted document above?

• Publicize some of the ways the civil rights of women were violated by men in the early 1800’s

• Publicize some of the ways the civil rights of women were violated by other women in the early 1800’s

• Suggest an amendment to the US Constitution that would provide equal rights to women

• List some suggestions to improve the women’s suffrage movement

Which event led to the drafting of the document excerpted above?

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Passage of the 15th amendment

• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

• Emancipation Proclamation

Which other civil rights movement most likely influenced the creation of this document?

• Abolition movement prior to the Civil War

• Formation of unions during the Gilded Age

• Civil Rights movement during the Jim Crow era

• Tenement housing reform during the Progressive Era

Which of the following claims is supported by both documents 1 and 2?

• The Missouri Compromise allowed citizens to vote on whether their state would be a free or slave state

• The Missouri Compromise divided the nation into Northern free states and Southern slave states.

• The Missouri Compromise allowed Maine to be admitted as a slave state, and Missouri as a free state.

• The Missouri Compromise settled the debate over expanding slavery into the territories until the U.S. Civil War in 1861.

In which order did the pre Civil War compromises occur?

• Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act

• Kansas Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise, Kansas Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850, Missouri Compromise

According to the author, which of these was the most direct result of the Dred Scott decision?

• The Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy

• Abraham Lincoln’s election to the Presidency in 1860

• The Supreme Court overturning the Dred Scott decision

• The Abolition movement was sparked in the Southern states 

According to the author, the Dred Scott decision was a turning point  in American politics because

• The decision further divided the North and the South in the debate over slavery

• The decision forced the North and the South to compromise on slavery

• The decision changed the Republican party’s stance on slavery

• The decision encouraged Americans to vote against Lincoln in the election of 1860

Which evidence best supports the claims made by this excerpted resolution?

• Mexican military forces attacked U.S. army troops on the northern bank of the Rio Grande river.

• American settlers of Texas who grew cotton with enslaved labor hoped to join the union as a slave state.

• The U.S. Congress authorized use of force against Mexico in response to a request by President Polk.

• Most Americans were in favor of proceeding with the annexation of Texas