APUSH Period 5 Exam Quiz

Which of the following was a positive effect of westward expansion from 1820-1860?

• Decimation of buffalo population

• Gold discovered in California

• Mexican-American War

• Trail of Tears

The Compromise of 1850 was encouraged by Daniel Webster's 7th of March Speech and aimed to strengthen the Fugitive Slave Act. Why did this attempt to compromise ultimately fail?

• Northerners hated the newly strengthened Fugitive Slave Act

• It led to conflict in Kansas

• It was defeated by Lincoln and Republicans

• It was supported by Douglas in Lincoln-Douglass Debates.

Which of the following individuals or groups supported Whitman's view on the Mexican-American War?

• Whigs

• Lincoln

• Manifest Destiny supporters

• Abolitionists

Thoreau's opposition to the Mexican-American War was supported by ______.

• Democrats

• Southerners

• Abolitionists

• Polk

Which of the following events is associated with the intensification of the Abolitionist Movement?

• Missouri Compromise

• Publishing of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'

• Election of Lincoln

• Secession of South Carolina

The Copperheads were Northern Democrats who wanted to end the Civil War even if it meant allowing the South to ______.

• remain united

• secede

• abolish slavery

• join the Union

What was the main claim of Secretary of State William Seward's speech in 1866 regarding the Freedmen's Bureau?

• It should be expanded permanently.

• It was unnecessary and should cease to exist.

• It was unconstitutional from the start.

• It should be maintained indefinitely.

Fill in the blank: The Compromise of 1877 is considered a failure of Reconstruction because it ______.

• ended federal protection of rights of Freedmen

• led to the expansion of the Freedmen's Bureau

• resulted in the election of Black congressmen

• abolished the Jim Crow Laws