APUSH 5.5 & 5.6

Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

• urban areas of the North

• seacoast cities of the South

• rural sections of the Old Northwest

• Appalachia

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

• universal manhood suffrage

• immediate abolition of slavery

• homesteads in the western territories

• restrictions on Catholics’ holding public office

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 advocated complete social and political equality for all races in the United States.

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

• England

• Africa

• Ireland

• The German states

Prior to the Civil War, a transformation occurred in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by

• freed African Americans from the South

• Irish immigrants

• German immigrants

• Italian immigrants

Which of the following did NOT contribute 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.

• Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade.

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Ostend Manifesto

• Wilmot Proviso

The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in

• Texas

• California

• Kansas

• Missouri

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

• A Missouri slaveholder

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

• A Southern supporter of popular sovereignty

• A New England abolitionist

The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?

• Residents of territories could decide on the basis of popular sovereignty whether to have slavery.

• Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states.

• The federal government should abolish slavery.

• Slavery was a state issue, and the federal government should play no role in its regulation.