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- 1. Multiple Choice
How did the North protect its industry?
by favoring a high tariff
by boycotting Southern goods
by boycotting trade with Europe
- 2. Multiple Choice
Select the items specifically wanted by the West.
high tariffs
easy bank credit
cheap public land
internal improvements at national expense
movies and pizza
- 3. Multiple Choice
Clay's plan to encourage an end to sectionalism was called:
the doctrine of nullification
the American Plan
secession
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements is true of the South?
favored high tariffs on cotton
encouraged the building of roads in the West
the only section to allow slavery
- 5. Multiple Choice
The north believed tariffs would provide what safety net?
Protection from Southern products
Protection from European competition
Protection from inadequate products
Protection from Western farm goods
- 6. Multiple Choice
In which of the following cities did a Dutch ship bring twenty African slaves in 1619?
New York
Jamestown
Philadelphia
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why were slaves considered to be more profitable than indentured servants?
Slaves were permanent possessions of their master.
Slaves were treated better than indentured servants.
Their contracts were shorter than an indentured servant.
- 8. Multiple Choice
One of the main groups in the early 1800s to object morally to slavery was the:
Southern plantation owners
Quakers
New England merchants
- 9. Multiple Choice
Why did slavery decline after the Revolutionary War?
Indentured servants were more profitable than slaves.
Ideas toward individual freedom were changing.
The number of plantations was declining.
- 10. Multiple Choice
The American Colonization Society planned to send freed slaves to:
the North
Liberia
Nigeria
none of these
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is an example of equilibrium?
abolitionist societies
Underground Railroad
Compromise of 1850
- 12. Multiple Choice
Select the reasons that explain why the South feared admitting California as a free state.
It would deprive them of a market for their extra slaves.
Other territories might follow California's example.
Nonslave states would control the Senate.
The admission would violate the Constitution.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Why would statehood cause a Great Debate?
There were too many states in the union.
The territories did not represent enough people.
They would change the balance in Congress.
They would secede from the Union.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which was not a major Southern argument presented in the Great Debate?
Losing control in Congress
An antislavery coalition in government
Lack of extension of cotton lands
Add additional states from the southwestern lands
- 15. Multiple Choice
Who extended the Missouri Compromise line
President James Polk
Wilmot Proviso
John C. Calhoun
Lewis Cass
- 16. Multiple Choice
What best defines due process of law?
the course of legal proceedings carried out regularly in accordance with established rule
This the awns
the process of a bill becoming a law
the compromise solution of admitting states to the Union in the 1800s
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which one of the following statements does NOT describe the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Territories were granted popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery.
It was proposed by Stephen Douglas.
It declared that residence in a free territory did not make a slave free.
- 18. Multiple Choice
What was an effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It repealed the Missouri Compromise.
California was admitted to the Union.
The Compromise of 1850 was repealed.
- 19. Multiple Choice
Select the two groups between which the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to an immediate struggle.
Kansas townspeople
slave owners
Nebraska farmers
abolitionist groups
- 20. Multiple Choice
What event resulted in the use of the expression, "Bleeding Kansas?"
passage of the Missouri Compromise
the near-destruction of the free-soiler town of Lawrence, Kansas
passage of the Compromise of 1850
- 21. Multiple Choice
All of the following were a presidential candidate in the 1860 election except:
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
John Breckinridge
Dred Scott
- 22. Multiple Choice
Select the three positions that were included in the 1860 Republican platform.
denounced John Brown's raid
slavery could continue where it already existed
no slavery in new territories
favored the Dred Scott decision
popular sovereignty on slavery in new territories
- 23. Multiple Choice
Select the three states that seceded from the Union after the election of Lincoln.
South Carolina
Arkansas
Missouri
Mississippi
Georgia
- 24. Multiple Choice
What two states did not secede from the Union?
Maryland and Missouri
Louisiana and North Carolina
Texas and Alabama
- 25. Multiple Choice
What do North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee have in common?
seceded from the Union after the election of Lincoln
seceded from the Union after Fort Sumter
did not secede from the Union
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