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- 1. Multiple Choice
What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?
require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to obtain jobs.
prevent slaves from testifying against whites in court trials.
require slaves that had run away to go back to their owners.
prevent slaves from having a group gathering or meetings.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around
the annexation of Texas.
Jackson's War on the Bank.
southern opposition to tariffs.
decreased trade with France.
- 3. Multiple Choice
How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?
It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.
It made the Mississippi River the dividing line between slave states and free states.
It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.
It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri.
- 4. Multiple Choice
The event MOST LIKELY occurring due to the 1860 presidential election of Lincoln was
the beginning of Reconstruction.
the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The passage of the Compromise of 1850
the secession of South Carolina from the Union.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which segment of the American population would have been MOST supportive of the Tariff of 1828?
The Freedmen, who were hurt by high rates of unemployment due to the tariff.
Southerners who were forced to pay higher prices on goods the region did not produce
Western settlers who saw the threat that the tariff posed to their efforts at industrialization
Northerners who would experience increased industrial growth because of a decrease in British imports.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Nullification was a theory espoused by John C. Calhoun which stated that states had the right to do what?
decide which national laws states would accept
get rid of unwanted national bureaucracy
determine if they wanted to remain in the Union
refuse to use the paper money issued by the Federal government
- 7. Multiple Choice
What did the Georgia Platform support?
states' rights
popular sovereignty
The Compromise of 1850
The Missouri Compromise
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which BEST describes a result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?
A slave had the right to sue for freedom in a federal court.
A slave was only a citizen after he or she purchased freedom.
A slave was not a citizen but rather the property of an owner.
A slave who lived on free soil for any length of time was free.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of these political issues caused the MOST division in Washington, DC, as the United States moved westward in the 19th century?
the expansion of slavery into newly acquired territories
the role that geography played in created state lines
the role of men in the new frontier
whether or not to allow Native Americans to become US citizens
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which statement is the BEST description of the immediate effect of the cotton gin on cotton production in the American south in the early-1800s?
Although now easier to produce, cotton was still less profitable than rice and tobacco.
Daily rates of production rose from 1 pound of cotton per slave to as much as 50 pounds per slave.
Daily rates of production rose from 20 pounds of cotton per slave to as much as 40 pounds per slave.
It had little effect on cotton production because the machines were too expensive for most planters to purchase.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which issue played the GREATEST role in dividing the North and South in the years leading up to the Civil War?
slavery
foreign trade
nullification
Dred Scott Case
- 12. Multiple Choice
The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to
return slaves captured in free states to slave states.
allow slavery in Maine but not in Missouri.
let Missouri have slavery until 1850.
maintain the balance of free and slave states.
- 13. Multiple Choice
1. What was Abraham Lincoln's official stand on slavery during the presidential campaign of 1860?
The African slave trade should be ended immediately.
Slavery should not be allowed to spread into new territories.
A constitutional convention should be held to resolve the issue.
All slaves within the United States should be freed within ten years.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements best describes the role of Alexander Stephens?
Stephens was a northerner who spoke out against slavery with other abolitionists and wrote speeches and articles against slavery.
Stephens spoke in favor of secession during Georgia's secession convention, and was rewarded for his strong secessionist views by being chosen as the Vice President of the Confederacy.
Stephens spoke against secession at Georgia's secession convention; however, he accepted Georgia's decision to secede and was chosen to be the Vice President of the Confederacy.
Stephens ran against Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1860; however he lost because of the overwhelming support of Lincoln in the northern states
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