Chapter 6&7 Review

A historian could best use this map to study:

• The Monroe Doctrine

• American nativism

• Manifest Destiny

• Dutch imperialism in North America

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 became stronger across the United States

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

According to Seneca Falls’ Declaration of Sentiments, women should

• remain in the home

• serve in the military

• give up their personal property

• have equal rights with men

Which government action addressed a grievance included the Declaration of Sentiments?

• the 13th amendment

• the Plessy v. Ferguson decision

• the Schenck v. United States decision

• the 19th amendment

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

What was one result of the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott V. Sanford?

• Sectional tension increased.

• The slave trade was abolished

• Northern states were more willing to compromise.

• Southern states immdeiately seceded from the Union.

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

What was a major cause of the invasion of the Kansas Territory by John Brown?

• the forced relocation of Native American tribes into Kansas

• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the decision in the Dred Scott case

• the deployment of Union troops into border states

The Kansas-Nebraska Act and "Bleeding Kansas" led to which outcome?

• It was a contributing factor to the Civil War.

• It illustrated the political influence of the Midwest.

• It reflected the impact of nationalism on territorial expansion.

• It resulted in a decline in sectional tensions.

Arguments opposing the Mexican American War reflects which debate raging at that time?

• The debate over whether or not slavery should be allowed to expand into American territories, challenging the balance of free and slave states

• The debate over the idea of a bicameral legislature in the legislative branch of the federal government

• The debate over whether or not popular sovereignty should be used as a tool to decide if a state would allow the enslavement of African Americans

• The debate over whether or not the United States should proceed with the annexation of Texas