AP U.S. History Period 5 Quiz

What was the term 'Manifest Destiny' associated with during the westward expansion of the United States?

• The movement of individuals to the West

• The political extension of United States territory

• Both A and B

• None of the above

Which famous overland route was used by migrants to the West during the westward expansion?

• Oregon Trail

• Mormon Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• California Trail

What was the nickname given to the people who migrated to California in 1849?

• Gold Rushers

• Frontiersmen

• Pioneers

• Forty-niners

Which act promoted secondary public education primarily in the West by transferring substantial tracts of federal lands to the states?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Pacific Railroad Act

• The Morrill Land Grant Act

What was the name of the treaty in 1848 that gave up Mexican claims to the disputed territory in Texas and sold the provinces of California and New Mexico to the United States?

• Treaty of Santa Fe

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of San Francisco

• Treaty of Los Angeles

What was the major goal of the reservation system established by the federal government in the 1850s?

• To protect American Indian culture and traditions

• To provide land for white settlers to set up homesteads

• To keep American Indians off lands that white settlers wanted to settle

• To promote economic development in the West

What was the name of the act that sought to address the controversies over the expansion of slavery, but resulted in a widening of the sectional rift?

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Wilmot Proviso

What was the central ideology of the Republican Party that vigorously defended a free labor system and economic growth?

• Nativism

• Free Labor

• Popular Sovereignty

• Abolitionism

Which event alarmed southern defenders of slavery to the point that leading political figures in the South were ready to secede?

• The election of 1844

• The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Dred Scott v. Sandford case

• The election of 1860

What was the name of the case that invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and declared that no African Americans were entitled to citizenship in the United States?

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessy v. Ferguson