Week 13 State Test review

What effect did the British Blockade have on America during and after the War of 1812?

• Tecumseh was able to unify the native Tribes

• Forts built in the Ohio Valley became more important

• manufacturing (factories) and the Industrial revolution took off in America

• The British stopped the flow of cotton

Lincoln will employ a naval blockade on the South during the Civil War like the British did in the War of 1812. Lincoln wanted to stop the Confederacy from making money on their

• slaves

• cotton

• land sales

• Homestead Acts

The South relied on "King Cotton Diplomacy" during the Civil War? The South hoped that England's need for cotton would force England to...

• Support the Confederacy

• force Lincoln to resign

• build more textile factories

• recognize slavery as a property right

Which of the following was a point made by the Dred Scott case

• Congress could prohibit slavery in any territory

• Slaves were property, even if the lived in free territory

• Henry Clay was right to divide the Louisiana Territory

• Slaves were citizens

In Lincoln's inaugural speech, who was Lincoln referring to when he said, "My dissatisfied countrymen..."

• Democrats who supported Stephen Douglass

• Whigs who stayed out of the Republican party

• Southerners who states had seceded

• Northerners who urged Lincoln to attack the South

What state's admission to the union helped to create the Compromise of 1850?

• Knasas

• California

• Texas

• Utah

The Republican party was formed because they wanted

• Year long schooling

• slavery in the west

• Tariffs

• slavery not to spread to the west

What political party did not want land gained from the Mexican War to be allowed slavery?

• Republicans

• Whigs

• Democrats

• Free Soil

Which statement best describes the results of the presidential election of 1860

• Regional attitudes about slavery played a small role

• Regional attitudes about slavery decided the outcome

• those who wanted a compromise on slavery won out

• National unity led to a landslide victory for the Republicans

Which of the following was not a reaction to John Brown's execution because of his failed raid on Harper's Ferry

• Southerners were shocked

• Many southerners celebrated his death

• A slave revolt broke out

• John Brown was hanged