Unit 10-11 Test Review (Part 1)

Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Enactment of a stronger Fugitive Slave Act making it easier for southerners to capture runaway slaves

• California admitted to the United States as a free state meaning slavery would not be allowed

• slave trade is abolished in Washington, DC

• any territory acquired by the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War would forever be closed to slavery

• popular sovereignty would be used to determine the fate of slavery in the Utah and New Mexico territories that had been won by the United States from the Mexican War.

Which of the following proposed to not allow slavery in any territory that the US acquired as a result of the Mexican War?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas Nebraska Act

Which of the following best describes Harriet Beecher Stowe?

• she was a leading abolitionist who was a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and who led many slaves to freedom

• she was a leading women’s rights supporter who was an organizer and speaker at the Seneca Falls Convention held in New York in 1848. She supported giving women the right to vote.

• she was a leading educational reformer who supported early childhood education and fought for better textbooks, educational resources and better teacher training

• she was against the Fugitive Slave Act and wrote the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin to depict the cruel, inhumane and unmoral side of slavery.

All of the following apply to the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin except:

• it was written in response and opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act

• it was a popular book and sold over 300,000 copies in less than a year

• it outraged many southerners who saw the novel as an attack not only against slavery but against southern heritage, lifestyle and tradition

• it caused Abraham Lincoln to tell the author that “she was the little woman who made this great war” in reference to the Civil War

• it was banned in the northern states because it caused abolitionists to demand an immediate end to slavery in the United States

Which of the following best define popular sovereignty during the 1850’s in American History?

• the ability of local groups to engage in conflict…

• the ability of Congress to pass laws…

• the ability of the Supreme Court will render a decision…

• the ability of the people of a territory to vote either directly or indirectly to determine if they want slavery to exist or be excluded in a territory

What was the name of the legislation proposed by Stephen Douglas in 1854…?

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Gadsden Purchase

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

Which of the following was not an effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• Bleeding Kansas

• the repeal of the Missouri Compromise

• the fragmentation or splitting of the Democratic Party

• the demise of the Whig political party

• the passage of the Compromise of 1850

Which political party began in the 1830s to oppose Andrew Jackson…?

• Whigs

• Republicans

• Democrats

• Know-Nothings

Which of the following best describe the political beliefs of the Republican Party in 1854?

• immediate abolition

• extension of slavery into northern states

• stopping the spread of slavery into the western territories

• allowing slavery to spread into the western territories

Who won the presidential election in 1856…?

• John Fremont

• James Buchanan

• Millard Fillmore

• Franklin Pierce

• Zachary Taylor