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Final Exam Quiz Social Studies

Total questions: 130

Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins

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1.

The Industrial Revolution is best defines as

a)

a period of rapid growth during which machines became essential to industry.

b)

series of explosive encounters between workers and wealthy factory owners.

c)

time of great excitement about mechanical approaches to controlling Nature.

d)

period of turmoil and upheaval within the U.S government.

2.

How did the water frame revolutionize the production of cloth?

a)

It increased the number of threads the home spinner could work with.

b)

It increased the pace of production in textile mills but made cloth more costly.

c)

It shifted the location of production from homes to textile mills.

d)

It raised the level of quality of home-spun cloth.

3.

Who was Richard Arkwright?

a)

Inventor of the water frame

b)

American mechanic and entrepreneur

c)

Inventor of the spinning jenny

d)

American manufacturer who owned textile mills

4.

Who was the man responsible for bringing new textile machines to the US

a)

Samuel Slater

b)

Moses Brown

c)

Richard Arkwright

d)

James Hargreaves

5.

What was Eli Whitney‘s influence on American manufacturing

a)

He designed a way to produce inexpensive clocks

b)

He served as president Adams secretary of war

c)

He came up with the idea of interchangeable parts

d)

He argued that all manufacturing should be done by hand

6.

What was one argument given by secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin about why there were so few factories in the US

a)

Urban areas were too messy to attract American workers from rural areas

b)

There was a high availability of farmland in the US

c)

American factory workers were willing to work for low pay

d)

The US could not support industries such as iron production

7.

How did the war of 1812 help American manufacturing

a)

The government build factories to produce needed uniforms and weapons

b)

Tariffs on foreign goods encouraged Americans to buy domestic goods

c)

Foreign goods became too expensive so politicians place tariffs on them

d)

The government boycotted British products that Americans also produced

8.

What did textile manufacturers do to keep the costs of running a mill low

a)

Cut back on the maintenance of machinery

b)

hired children and paid them very little

c)

Trained apprentices in exchange for decades of labor

d)

Fed workers instead of paying wages in cash

9.

The Rhode Island system was Samuel Slatter‘s strategy of

a)

Hiring families of workers and dividing factory work into simple tasks

b)

Paying workers and company store credit and re-investing in cash in the business

c)

Building houses for workers in exchange for the promise of company loyalty

d)

hiring unmarried woman and designing dual purpose factory equipment

10.

What happened to workers in the textile industry as a result of Francis Cabot Lowell's introduction of a new system?

a)

Many mill were laid off because Lowell's power loom did the work of two different types of machine

b)

Investors were hesitant to provide financial support because they did not believe that the power loom would be successful

c)

Male mill workers came to resent female mill workers because Lowell paid women more than he paid men.

d)

More women became mill workers because of the opportunity to earn better wages than most available jobs

11.

For how long would a typical "Lowell girl" stay at the mills?

a)

a decade

b)

four years

c)

one year

d)

nine months

12.

Which statement best describes working conditions at the mills?

a)

Workers were fired after a single absence, forcing replacements to operate machinery they were not properly trained to use.

b)

Each worker was free to chose the time at which the workday began so long as 8 to 10 hours of work a day were completed.

c)

Workers suffered from health problems, such as chronic cough, due to unsafe conditions

d)

Workers were fed three times a day to keep them strong and their health was a top priority of caring managers and investors

13.

What was trade union?

a)

organization of workers who tried to improve pay and working conditions for members

b)

collection of workers who appealed to the courts and police for assistance against employers

c)

group of workers who arrived from poor countries and were willing to work for low pay

d)

alliance of workers who wanted to prevent their employers from competing with other manufacturers.

14.

Who was Sarah G. Bagley?

a)

She set the record for time spent by a Lowell girl in the original Waltham textile mill

b)

She forgot to bring the 10-hour working day of public employees to private business employees

c)

She banned from the labor movement any worker who contracted to work longer hours

d)

She presented a case against child labor to textile mill owners throughout New England

15.

The transportation revolution was a period of

a)

Rebellion against foreign countries use of American shipping lanes

b)

Economic depression brought on by inferior modes of travel

c)

Public disapproval of traditional modes of transit

d)

Rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel

16.

Two new forms of transportation invented during the transportation revolution were the

a)

Steam powered train and the steamboat

b)

Horse drawn rail car and the motor board

c)

Covered wagon and the sailboat

d)

Automobile and the clipper ship

17.

Robert Fulton‘s first full size commercial steamboat was called the

a)

Hudson

b)

Atlantic

c)

Clermont

d)

Ogden

18.

Why was the steamboat well-suited to river travel?

a)

It traveled well upstream

b)

It was helped by the current

c)

It relied on wind power

d)

It was meant to serve as a ferry

19.

Gibbons V. Ogden was a supreme court case about which of the following?

a)

Interstate trade

b)

States rights

c)

Travel license

d)

Monopolies

20.

What was the Tom thumb and why was it significant

a)

It was a sewing machine that prevented house wives from pricking their fingers

b)

It was a steamboat that brought thousands of settlers upriver to the Ohio Valley

c)

It was a ferry that was the first to transport commuters across the Hudson river

d)

It was a locomotive that was credited with bringing railroad fever to the US

21.

What challenges did engineers and mechanics face while building railroads?

a)

The American public was not interested in railroads

b)

The railroads had to pass through mountains and rivers

c)

Locomotives usually broke down before arriving at their destinations

d)

Engineers did not have the necessary materials to build railroads

22.

Steel is made through a process called smelting, which means

a)

Cutting down and removing trees on a large scale

b)

Making deep gashes in the earth to remove coal

c)

Linking cities to each other via rail roads

d)

Heating iron ore two very high temperatures

23.

The telegraph was significant because it

a)

Enabled people to send news quickly from coast to coast

b)

Led to the invention of the railroad system

c)

Benefited from the work of international scientists

d)

Made its inventor a very wealthy and famous men

24.

What communication system, featuring different combinations of dots and dashes to represent letters, was developed by Alfred Lewis Vail?

a)

The Vail system

b)

Telegraph method

c)

Morse code

d)

Dot language

25.

How did technological developments during the industrial revolution enable people to build factories almost anywhere?

a)

Trains could bring raw materials to and ship finished goods from virtually any area worth living in

b)

The shift to steam power meant factories no longer had to be built near streams, rivers, or waterfalls

c)

Trains and steamboats spread the population out so that any factory had a ready supply of workers

d)

The invention of the telegraph put factory managers and their city-based investors with in easy reach

26.

In the mid-1800s, most of America’s industry was located in the

a)

North east

b)

South

c)

West

d)

Midwest

27.

Why did companies build their factories closer to cities and transportation centers in the mid-1800s?

a)

It allowed business to increase wages

b)

It made shipping more expensive

c)

It caused people to move from cities to rural areas

d)

It provided easier access to workers

28.

John Deere came up with the idea for a

a)

Iron plow

b)

Steel plow

c)

Wood plow

d)

Steam powered plow

29.

The mechanical reaper, a machine that quickly cuts down wheat, was invented by

a)

Cyrus McCormick

b)

John Deere

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

Samuel Morse

30.

By 1860, Isaac singers company was the worlds largest maker of

a)

Clocks

b)

Iceboxes

c)

Safety pins

d)

Sewing machines

31.

Invented the water frame

a)

Richard Arkwright

b)

Samuel FB Morse

c)

Aaron Ogden

d)

Samuel Slater

32.

Designed a power loom that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill

a)

Aaron Ogden

b)

Sarah G Bagley

c)

Francis Cabot Lowell

d)

Cyrus McCormick

33.

Designer of the steamboat Clermont

a)

Richard Arkwright

b)

Peter Cooper

c)

Samuel Slater

d)

Robert Fulton

34.

Flight to obtain a 10 hour workday for private businesses

a)

Sarah G Bagley

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Samuel Slater

35.

Developed the mechanical reaper, a harvesting machine, in 1831

a)

Peter Cooper

b)

Aaron Ogden

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Francis Cabot Lowell

36.

Developed a strategy of hiring families and dividing work into simple tasks, known as the Rhode Island system

a)

Samuel slater

b)

Aaron Ogden

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

Peter Cooper

37.

Once had a monopoly on New York’s steamboat business

a)

Cyrus McCormick

b)

Robert Fulton

c)

Aaron Ogden

d)

Eli Whitney

38.

Came up with the idea of interchangeable parts

a)

Peter Cooper

b)

Richard Arkwright

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

Samuel FB Morse

39.

Designed the telegraph

a)

Aaron Ogden

b)

Samuel Slater

c)

Richard Arkwright

d)

Samuel FB Morse

40.

Built the small but powerful Tom Thumb in 1830

a)

Peter Cooper

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Robert Fulton

d)

Cyrus McCormick

41.

Why did the value of slaves drop in the south following the American revolution?

a)

Crop prices fell and the demand for slaves decreased

b)

Slaves launched rebellions throughout the south

c)

Slaves begin to escape to the north

d)

The practice of slavery became unpopular in the south

42.

How did Eli Whitney‘s original cotton gin work?

a)

Horses drew the machine through Green seed cotton fields to harvest seedless fibers

b)

Cotton was put into the machine, which seeded, baled, and tied the fibers with hemp

c)

A worker cranked the machine and “teeth” separated the green seeds from cotton fibers

d)

A steam engine powered the machine, which removed seeds from long stable Cotton

43.

What was the cotton belt

a)

An area stretching from South Carolina to Texas that grew most of the countries, cotton crop

b)

The southern region east of the Mississippi that produced two-thirds of the cotton grown in the US

c)

Fields in Mexico where agriculture scientists worked to crossbreed short stable cotton with Mexican cotton

d)

A long stretch of land in the south where short stable cotton crops were wiped out by disease in the 1830s

44.

What does crop rotation involve?

a)

Cross breeding short stable Cotton with other varieties to maximize quality

b)

Raking fertilizer into the ground around the roots of young plants to mix air and nutrients into the soil

c)

Changing the type of plant grown on a given plot each year in order to protect the land from mineral loss

d)

Turning the soil over after a harvest to prevent insects from spending the winter underground and investing in the next season’s plants

45.

Tredegar Iron Works was a

a)

Northern company that specializes in turning iron into steel by heating it

b)

Northern mine that provided Coal to manufactures of iron products

c)

Southern factory that turned iron into useful products for industry and the military

d)

Southern manufacturing plant that produced locomotives for the government

46.

What was the main problem with the production of tobacco before the 1840s?

a)

Tobacco took a long time to grow

b)

Tobacco was illegal in many states

c)

Tobacco could be grown only in the north

d)

Tobacco needed to be dried before shipping

47.

In the first half of the 1800s, what portion of white southern families had slaves?

a)

One-third

b)

One-half

c)

Two-Thirds

d)

Three-quarters

48.

A Yeoman was a

a)

White owner of a small farm

b)

Established plantation owner

c)

Freed southern slave

d)

Northern slaves sold to a southerner

49.

What was one duty of a planters wife?

a)

Sowing and raising crops

b)

Organizing the slaves on the plantations

c)

Teaching slaves how to read

d)

Supervising slaves within the household

50.

Wealthy white southerners used religion to justify the institution of slavery the arguing that

a)

God created some people to rule over others

b)

God selected whites as his chosen people

c)

Slavery was right because it was practiced in the Bible

d)

Slavery taught savages to bow to a higher authority

51.

Which statement about free African-Americans in the 1860s is true?

a)

Some of them were descendants of refugees from the Haitian Revolution

b)

All of them moved to free states in the north after gaining their freedom

c)

Many of them joined labor unions to help them bargain for higher wages

d)

None of them had been willingly set free by their slaveholders

52.

Why did many southern cities and states pass laws to limit the rights of freed slaves?

a)

State governments wanted to teach the lesson that freedom brings responsibility

b)

Southern citizens feared freed slaves would try to encourage slave rebellions

c)

White churches were losing members to the independent church movement

d)

Lawmakers felt freed slaves and not earn the benefits of citizenship

53.

What advantages did skilled slaves have over unskilled slaves?

a)

Working shorter hours

b)

Moving from plantation to plantation

c)

Living in their owners house

d)

Earning money to buy their freedom

54.

How did most planters encourage slave obedience?

a)

By offering rewards of better food, clothing, and shelter

b)

Through physical punishment

c)

By withholding payment for work completed

d)

Through incentives such as education

55.

What were slave codes?

a)

Strict state laws that controlled the actions of slaves

b)

Secret language slaves used to communicate

c)

A set of rules for slave behavior set by a council of planters

d)

The policy of slaves to always help one another

56.

What were spiritual’s?

a)

Rebellions led by slaves

b)

Stories with lessons about slavery

c)

Places were slaves went to worship

d)

Emotional Christian songs sung by slaves

57.

In what ways did slaves rebel against long working hours?

a)

They slowed down their work in the fields

b)

They hid their masters whips and chains

c)

They prayed for God to teach masters the virtue of equal treatment

d)

They stole books from their masters and taught themselves to read

58.

What was the effect of Nat Turner’s rebellion of 1831?

a)

Slave codes were toughened

b)

Slaves lost their right to a fair trial

c)

Terrified slaveholders freed the slaves

d)

Slaves obtained better working conditions

59.

Net turner lead a group of slaves to kill slaveholders because he

a)

Watched his father die as a result of a beating by his master

b)

Believe he was on a mission from God to free the slaves

c)

Was inspired by the success of other violent slave revolts

d)

Had tried and failed at non-violent methods of resistance

60.

What happened to Nat turner after the rebellion he started in 1831?

a)

Escape to the north

b)

He was sentenced to death

c)

He was imprisoned for life

d)

He was killed by a slaveholder

61.

Large scale southern farmers who owned more than 20 slaves

a)

Factors

b)

Yeomen

c)

Planters

d)

Slave codes

62.

One of the most productive industrial factories of the south in the 1800s

a)

Tredegar Ironworks

b)

Gang labor system

c)

Cotton belt

d)

Crop rotation

63.

Emotional Christian songs sung by slaves

a)

Folktales

b)

Factors

c)

Slave codes

d)

Spirituals

64.

Southern owners of small farms with few slaves

a)

Nat Turner

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Yeomen

d)

Planters

65.

Planted the Cotton gin in 1793

a)

Nat Turner

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Planters

d)

Tredegar iron works

66.

Planting a different crop on the same plot every few years

a)

Planters

b)

Crop rotation

c)

Gang labor system

d)

Spirituals

67.

Slave whose violent rebellion led many states to strengthen and their slave codes

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Tredegar iron works

c)

Nat Turner

d)

George Washington

68.

Area of high cotton production in the south

a)

Cotton belt

b)

Crop rotation

c)

Slave codes

d)

Factors

69.

Crop brokers who managed the trading of cotton

a)

Planters

b)

Slave codes

c)

Yeomen

d)

Factors

70.

Used the labor of all field hands on the same task at the same time

a)

Spirituals

b)

Gang labor system

c)

Planters

d)

Factors

71.

What led to the flood of Irish immigrants entering the US in the mid-1840s?

a)

Potato blight

b)

Unsafe working conditions

c)

Religious persecution

d)

Violent revolution

72.

What did the know nothing party support?

a)

One year residency period before immigrants could gain US citizenship

b)

Border patrol to keep sick foreigners from bringing diseases into the country

c)

Immigration restrictions to protect the jobs and culture of native born Americans

d)

Education for immigrants who wanted to be involved in the political process

73.

The term middle class refers to the

a)

Social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor

b)

Educational rank reformers assigned to intermediate schools

c)

Factory standard used for goods of average cost and quality

d)

Political term for citizens who vote for moderate candidates

74.

In the mid-1800s, which city dwellers most commonly lived in tenements?

a)

Skilled workers

b)

Immigrants

c)

Sanitation workers

d)

Farmers

75.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau were all

a)

Romantic artists

b)

Social reformers

c)

Religious revivalists

d)

Transcendentalist thinkers

76.

The writings of transcendentalist thinkers often touched upon which theme?

a)

Self reliance

b)

Devotion

c)

Charity

d)

Revolution

77.

In late 18th century America, the second great awakening was a period of

a)

Rebirth the led to the development of a culture centered on education

b)

Christian renewal that begin in the northeastern US

c)

Reform that focused on improving the quality of life of the poor

d)

American revival that brought back pre-revolutionary war traditions

78.

The temperance movement was a

a)

Faith based initiative to restrict the use of alcohol to religious ceremonies

b)

Commercial bid to ban the manufacture of hard liquor and beer by private sellers

c)

Scientific study of the side affects of daily alcohol consumption on adult males

d)

Reform effort to urge people to use self discipline to stop drinking hard liquor

79.

What did reformer Dorthea Dix do to contribute to the prison reform movement in the early 1800s?

a)

Spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill

b)

Founded an organization of woman that worked together to provide education for imprisoned criminals

c)

Organized many protests and hopes of motivating the government to build separate facilities for child offenders

d)

Brought America’s attention to the need for prison reform by writing novels and detailing the condition of prisons

80.

Which of these contributions did Horace Mann make to the education reform movement in the 19th century?

a)

He developed new ways of instructing students with handicaps

b)

He fought for improvements to the education of women

c)

He extended the length of the school year

d)

He was responsible for the integration of public schools

81.

Why were many African American schools established in Philadelphia in the mid-1800s?

a)

Of all northern U.S. cities, Philadelphia had the largest African American population.

b)

As a center of Quaker influence, Philadelphia strongly supported the education of African American children.

c)

Laws in other northern cities barred freed African Americans from receiving any kind of education.

d)

Philadelphia's citizens believed that establishing African American schools would help the abolitionist cause

82.

To spread the abolitionist message throughout the US in the mid-1800s William Lloyd Garrison

a)

Published in the anti-slavery newspaper called the liberator

b)

Wrote many novels and poems about the injustices of slavery

c)

Traveled around the country giving lectures about the evils of slavery

d)

Founded the American colonization Society to help slaves obtain freedom

83.

What was Angelina and Sarah Graham keys contribution to the abolitionist movement?

a)

Founding the African colony Liberia and leading many slaves to safety there

b)

Representing the quaker viewpoint, which challenged slavery on religious grounds

c)

Providing jobs and financial support to many fugitive slaves living in the north

d)

Writing to attract other white southern woman to the effort to abolish slavery

84.

What was the goal of the American anti-slavery society?

a)

Provision of economic assistance for free African-Americans

b)

Relocation of all southern slaves to Freeland in the north

c)

Punishment for the inhumane treatment of slaves by slaveholders

d)

Immediate emancipation and racial equality for African-Americans

85.

What contribution did Harriet Tubman make to the anti-slavery movement

a)

As a conductor on the underground railroad, she led many fugitive slaves to freedom

b)

She lectured members of the American anti-slavery society about the evils of slavery

c)

As the founder of the southern anti slavery group, she helped stage many peaceful slaves strikes

d)

She wrote many essays persuading southern slaveholders to join the abolition movement

86.

What did Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth have in common?

a)

They had each learned to read and write as children, despite laws against it

b)

The anti-slavery society invited each of them to give regular lectures

c)

They were both former slaves who contributed to the abolitionist cause

d)

The autobiography was their chosen from for exposing the injustices of slavery

87.

What did the federal government do to block the abolition movements progress between 1836 and 1844?

a)

Impeached four antislavery Northerners in the Senate in order to send a message

b)

Opened secret investigations into the private lives of anti-slavery leaders

c)

Indicted all members and associates of the anti-slavery society for treason

d)

Issued a gag rule preventing the Congress from discussing anti-slavery petitions

88.

What right did Susan B Anthony win for woman in New York in 1860?

a)

Control by married woman of their own wages and property

b)

Participation by woman in the voting and election process

c)

Interrogation of women at all public conventions and events

d)

Opportunity for all woman to hold even the highest public office

89.

The Seneca Falls convention in 1848 was significant because it

a)

Forced the government to discuss petitions against slavery

b)

Mark the start of the organized woman’s right movement

c)

Granted women the right to participate in the voting process

d)

Revealed the need for temperance and educational reforms

90.

The Seneca Falls declaration of sentiments was modeled on the

a)

Declaration of independence(US, 1776)

b)

Declaration of the rights of woman and the female Citizen (France,1781)

c)

Declaration of the rights of man and of the Citizen (France,1789)

d)

Declaration of the rights of woman (US, 1876)

91.

Poorly designed apartment buildings that were home to large numbers of people

a)

tenements

b)

utopian communities

c)

transcendentalism

d)

Underground Railroad

92.

Escaped slave who succeeded in leading over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

Frederick Douglas

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Catharine Beecher

93.

First public meeting about women's rights held in the US

a)

Seneca Falls Convention

b)

transcendentalism

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Romanticism

94.

Educational reformer who began the first all-female school in Connecticut

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

Horace Mann

c)

Frederick Douglas

d)

Catharine Beecher

95.

Escaped slave whose autobiographies intended to expose the injustices of slavery

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Catharine Beecher

c)

Frederick Douglas

d)

Walt Whitman

96.

Organization designed to help fugitive slaves escape to the North

a)

transcendentalism

b)

Underground Railroad

c)

Seneca Falls Convention

d)

Utopian Communities

97.

Philosophical movement stating that people should rise above material things in life

a)

transcendentalism

b)

Romanticism

c)

Seneca Falls Convention

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

98.

Groups of people who joined together try to form perfect societies

a)

tenements

b)

Seneca Falls Convention

c)

utopian communities

d)

Romanticism

99.

Woman’s right activist who is one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls convention

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Seneca Falls convention

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Transcendentalism

100.

Romantic poet who praised American individualism and democracy

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Horace Mann

d)

Harriet Tubman

101.

The Wilmot Proviso was an idea proposed to Congress to

a)

Prohibit slavery in all parts of the Mexican cession

b)

Reinstate slavery in the northern states

c)

Allow slaves to be counted in the population of a state

d)

Increase and improve the rights given to slaves

102.

The Wilmot proviso spurred a debate that showed growing sectionalism, which refers to

a)

Attempts to outline electoral districts based on a religion

b)

Taking advantage of loopholes in state and federal laws

c)

Paying attention to just one part of a problem

d)

Favoring the interests of a region over those of the country

103.

How did the idea of popular Sovereignty affect slavery in the US

a)

Slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states

b)

States or territories would decide whether to permit slavery

c)

Slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the country

d)

The federal government would have the last word on slavery

104.

What was senators henry Clay’s contribution in the compromise of 1850?

a)

Calling for the end of slavery in the southern states

b)

Proposing a ban of slavery in the Mexican cession

c)

Asking that the slave states be able to secede from the union

d)

Proposing that California enter the union as a free state

105.

What was the position of South Carolina Senator John C Calhoun in the debate for the compromise of 1850?

a)

Slave states should separate peacefully from the union

b)

Slavery should end in the nations capital

c)

The federal government should ban the slave trade

d)

California should enter the union as a free state

106.

Most Northerners opposed the fugitive slave act because it

a)

Endangered their way of life since a large number of fugitive slaves lived in the north

b)

Encouraged slaves to resort to rebellion and violence to protest the new law

c)

Gave commissioners too much power and should have allowed slaves the right to jury trials

d)

Ended the progress that the anti-slavery movement had made in the south

107.

Which of the following statements about the fugitive slave act is true?

a)

The law permitted fugitives to testify on their own behalf

b)

People who helped runaways often served as a defense witness

c)

Commissioners benefited from returning slaves to slaveholders

d)

Enforcement of the law began 10 years after it was passed

108.

Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s uncle Tom’s cabin is a

a)

Novel

b)

Autobiography

c)

Journalistic account

d)

Political pamphlet

109.

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do to influence the debate over slavery?

a)

Pushed for the start of the Civil War

b)

Exposed the harsh reality of slave life

c)

Accused the federal government of obeying the southern states

d)

Attacked political figures who supported slavery in the south

110.

Introduced in 1854, the Kansas Nebraska act

a)

Maintained the balance of slave and free states in the union

b)

Divided the Louisiana purchase into two territories

c)

Let the federal government decide on slavery in the Louisiana purchase

d)

Reinforced the restrictions placed on slavery by the Missouri compromise

111.

The Kansas Nebraska act led to the

a)

Prohibition of the practice of slavery in the territories

b)

Return of the slavery issue between the north and the south

c)

Reinforcement of ideas introduced in the Missouri compromise

d)

Declaration of the fugitive slave act as unconstitutional

112.

Which of these was a result of the Pottawatomie massacre?

a)

Kansas citizens began a mass migration to northern states

b)

Kansas collapsed into a Civil War and many citizens were killed

c)

Kansas government was no longer divided over the issue of slavery

d)

Kansas was declared a free state by the federal government

113.

The supreme courts ruling in dread Scott V. Stanford established that

a)

Slaves were not allowed to accuse slaveholders

b)

The Missouri compromises restriction on slavery was unconstitutional

c)

Establishing a residence on free soil makes a slave free

d)

Congress had the legal power to ban slavery in federal territories

114.

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney argued in 1857 that congress could not prohibit someone from taking slaves into a federal territory because

a)

Slaves were not citizens of the US

b)

Federal territories cannot rule against slavery

c)

Slave trade was still allowed in every state

d)

Slaves were property, and property was defended by law

115.

The purpose of the Lincoln Douglas debates was for Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas to

a)

Announce their candidacies for senator of Illinois and gain the support of voters

b)

Spread the importance of the anti-slavery movement to the state of Illinois

c)

Gain supporters for the newly formed Republican Party in the US

d)

Fight for the rights of African-American slaves in the US

116.

In leading an armed resistance in Virginia in 1859 John brown was attempting to

a)

Steel weapons and bring them to local slaves

b)

Fight the work of anti-slavery supporters in Virginia

c)

Control the slaves that had escaped in Virginia

d)

Show his anger over the Dred Scott decision

117.

Why was John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry a failure?

a)

His supporters did not follow his plan

b)

He did not have enough supporters for his cause

c)

His men turned on him before the rain begin

d)

He was met with resistance from slaves in Virginia

118.

What was the significance of the election of 1860?

a)

It brought to light the divisions that existed in the US over slavery

b)

It Exposed the corruption of the electrical college in the election process

c)

It showed that the south was losing its political power in the nation

d)

It illustrated that a candidate did not have to carry a state to win

119.

Which of the following statements best expresses the reason why Democratic Party was not a strong force in the election of 1860?

a)

Many members of the Democratic Party decided to vote for a Republican candidate

b)

The Democrats were a relatively new political party and had not yet gained enough support

c)

Many Southerners in the Democratic Party became abolitionists and supported other parties

d)

The Democrats could not agree on a single candidate so their votes were divided between two candidates

120.

When Lincoln was elected in 1860, he stated that the government would

a)

Make the needs of the south it’s priority

b)

Not start a war with the southern states

c)

Not ban slavery in the south

d)

Compromise about the extension of slavery

121.

Mississippi native elected president of the Confederacy

a)

Stephen Douglas

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Franklin Pierce

d)

Freeport doctrine

122.

Violet response by Atlantis tennis to the Sack of Lawrence

a)

Franklin Pierce

b)

Fugitive slave act

c)

John Brown’s raid

d)

Pottawatomie Massacre

123.

Rebellion staged by a group of abolitionists at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

a)

Free soil party

b)

Fugitive slave act

c)

Stephen Douglas

d)

John Brown’s raid

124.

Document that stated that slavery could not exist in any part of the Mexican cession

a)

Wilmot Proviso

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Free soil party

d)

Franklin Pierce

125.

US senator from Illinois who proposed the Kansas Nebraska act

a)

Freeport doctrine

b)

Secession

c)

Stephen Douglas

d)

Wilmot proviso

126.

Act of formally withdrawing from the union

a)

Freeport doctrine

b)

Wilmot proviso

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Secession

127.

Idea that political power belongs to the people

a)

Freeport doctrine

b)

Secession

c)

Franklin Pierce

d)

Jefferson Davis

128.

Political group formed by antislavery Northerners who supported the Wilmot proviso

a)

Franklin Pierce

b)

Free soil party

c)

Secession

d)

Freeport doctrine

129.

Democratic candidate in the election of 1852 who promised to honor the compromise of 1850

a)

Stephen Douglas

b)

Freeport doctrine

c)

Franklin Pierce

d)

John Brown’s raid

130.

Law that made it a crime to assist runaway slaves

a)

Fugitive slave act

b)

Free soil party

c)

Pottawatomie massacre

d)

Freeport doctrine