WorksheetsUNIT 5 QUIZ
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
The view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called
Divine Mandate.
isolationism.
anglophobia.
Manifest Destiny.
As a result of the Missouri Compromise of 1820
there were more free states than free states in the Union.
slavery was outlawed in all states north of the 42nd paralle.
slavery was banned north of the 36⁰30 in the Louisiana Purchase territory.
there were more slave states than free states in the Union.
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the U.S. because
Texas's congress preferred to stay independent.
the population of Texas was too small to justify it.
Henry Clay wanted to add it, and he was their sworn enemy.
the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery.
By 1856, the Republican Party formed a coalition of the following groups EXCEPT
Federalists.
northern Whigs.
Free Soilers.
anti-slavery Democrats.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
intended to show the cruelty of slavery.
was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
comprised the recollections of long-time personal witnesses to slavery.
received little notice at the time it was published.
Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by
making Kansas a free territory and Nebraska a slave territory.
popular sovereignty.
the Supreme Court.
the winner of the next presidential election.
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
California entered the Union as a free state.
The slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.
The Oregon Territoy was created.
The federal government adopted a tougher fugitive slave law.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 did which of the following:
transferred California to the U.S.
took away individual rights of Mexicans
gave the U.S. the Louisiana territory
recognized Texas as an independent nation
The Fugitive Slave Law included all of the following provisions EXCEPT
the requirement that fugitive slaves be returned from Canada.
denial of a jury trial to runaway slaves.
denial of runaway slaves' rights to testify on their own behalf.
the penalty of imprisonment for notherners who helped slaves escape.
Free Soilers condemned slavery because
of the harm it did to African Americans.
of moral principles.
it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise economically.
it damaged the national economy.
According to the principle of "popular sovereignty," the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by
a national referendum.
congressional legislation.
a Supeme Court decision.
the vote of the people in any given territory.
Which of the following is a political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A strong, unified Whig Party won the next presidential election.
Nearly half of all northern Democrats joined the American Party.
Many disgruntled Northerners joined the new Republican Party.
Stephen Douglas was nominated for governor of Kansas.
The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court
declared Congress could not ban slavery from territories.
endorsed the "free soil" policy of the Republicans.
backed the idea of popular sovereignty.
freed Dred Scott.
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal aresenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
Frederick Douglass
Joseph Lane
Robert E. Lee
John Brown
In 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordiance of secession and declare itself separated from the Union?
Virginia
Kentucky
Georgia
South Carolina
