unit five review quiz

The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

• The end of the Spanish-American War

• Westward expansion

• The booming internal slave trade

• Increased manufacturing

Based on the excerpt, Calhoun would also be most likely to support which of the following?

• Proslavery arguments

• Policies favoring immigration

• Expanded United States federal authority

• United States sale of disputed territory

Which of the following events best represents a continuity of the sentiments expressed by Senator Calhoun in the speech?

• The United States rejection of membership in the League of Nations

• Support for assimilationist policies in the 1880s and 1890s

• The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

• The Great Migration of African Americans out of the South in the 1910s

Answer explanation

Senator Calhoun is arguing that the United States shouldn't annex any more Mexican land because that land would be full of Mexican who he considered too different from Anglo American to ever assimilate into American culture.

Therefore the answer should also reflect the idea that America is a white man's country like Plessy vs Fergerson did officially segregating African Americans from whites in the south

The decision in the excerpt held which of the following to be unconstitutional?

• The Northwest Ordinance

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Wilmot Proviso

Answer explanation

Dred Scott sued for his freedom once his master had crossed north of the Missouri compromise line, since the compromised stated that slavery of any kind could not exist north of the Missouri compromise line.

Therefore when the Supreme court ruled against Dred Scott it also made the Missouri compromise line unconstitutional

Which of the following most likely supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

• Abolitionists

• Southern Democrats

• Free soil advocates

• Northern Republicans

Answer explanation

Democratics and especially southern democratics were super pro slavery

made them rich!

Which of the following was the most immediate result of the decision in the excerpt?

• Tensions over slavery diminished

• Support grew for the Republican Party

• The United States fought a war with Mexico

• Most slave states voted to secede from the Union

Answer explanation

Southern states had just won this supreme court cases it doesn't make sense to then secede from the union.

Republicans did receive more attention by becoming the anti slavery party immediately after the Dred Scott decision was made

Which of the following invalidated the decision in the excerpt?

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer explanation

The 14th amendment made all people born in the USA citizens of the usa therefore invaildating the supreme court's decision of labeling african American slaves as simple property

After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the "new birth of freedom" that the excerpt refers to?

• Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

• The compromise that resolved the election of 1876

• Establishment of the Ku Klux Klan and similar organizations

• Supreme Court rulings such as Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer explanation

13- freed slaves

14- made them citizens

15- granted freedmen the right to vote

WOW such new freedom!

Which of the following most directly contributed to the conflict referred to in the excerpt?

• Disputes over taxation and representation

• Tensions between isolationism and international engagement

• Disagreements over whether to allow slavery in new territories

• Debates about the role of religion in society and government

Answer explanation

AKA what caused the Civil war!

Lincoln's main purpose in the excerpt was to

• advocate racial equality

• encourage the punishment of the South

• propose expanded democratic voting rights

• gain continued support for the war effort

Answer explanation

This is a war time speech!

it all about winning the Civil war at the end of the day

Plus personally President lincoln wanted to free the slaves, but didn't have plans to grant them citizenship or voting rights!