American History U4A15 Test A Nation Divided

Who proposed the "American System" as a method of tying the industrial and agricultural regions of the US together?

• Henry Clay

• Daniel Webster

• John C Calhoun

• Andrew Jackson

What was the idea behind manifest destiny?

• that a Christian America had the responsibility to teach the rest of the world its religion

• that all Africans are inferior to Americans and thus have no other societal role than to be slaves

• that it was right for Americans to extend their way of life from the Atlantic to the Pacific

• that America was the most powerful world nation and had a duty to mediate all world conflicts

Laws created to justify slavery stated that a person's status as slave or free was based on what?

• the law of the land where the person was born

• the person's economic status

• the person's education level

• the mother rather than father's status

By the 1860s, the American South was producing how much of the world's cotton?

• 2/3

• 1/3

• 1/2

• 1/4

Slaves were not imported into the United States after 1808.

• True

• False

The ______ was negotiated between the United States and Mexico to establish the border between Texas and Mexico as the Rio Grande.

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Compromise of 1850

• Annexation of Mexico

• Decision of the Alamo Conflict

During the time of manifest destiny, the addition of ______ was highly desirable because it contained two of the three natural ports on the Pacific coast.

• Oregon

• California

• Alaska

• Washington

Select the three categories of labor enslaved people performed on plantations.

• overseers

• artisans and craftsmen

• teachers

• domestic workers

• field workers

Who published the anti-slavery newspaper "The North Star"?

• Theodore Dwight Weld

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, which man's position is described below? 1. Advocated popular sovereignty. 2. Explained that slavery could only exist if the state legislature passed laws protecting slave property and could, therefore, curtail slavery without banning it outright.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas