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1) Explain how changes in three of the following areas heightened sectional tensions: the
new commercial agriculture, the growth of a railroad economy, rising industrialization, and
immigration.
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2) Identify four major sectional events of the period 1854-1856. Which of these events aided
the Republican Party?
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3) Why did the Know-Nothing Party arise when it did? Why did the Republican Party
eventually surpass it?
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4) How did the violence in Kansas and the caning of Charles Sumner help the Republicans?
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5) What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott decision? Why did the decision fail to
settle the slavery expansion issue?
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6) How did the Panic of 1857 worsen the sectional conflict?
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7) “Ever since the Revolution, when Americans accused the king and Parliament of
deliberately plotting to deprive them of their liberties, Americans were on the watch for political
conspiracies.” Give examples of the way in which northerners feared that the Slave Power was
conspiring against them, and southerners worried about the plots of the Black Republicans.
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8) How did economic and social developments of the 1850s contribute to the growing
sectional strain between North and South? Do you feel that these factors were more or less
important than the political events of the decade? Explain why.
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9) Why did southern anxiety increase in the 1850s? What contributed to the South’s sense of
being beleaguered?
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10) What were the provisions of the Crittenden Compromise? Did these deal with the causes
of secession? Would this compromise have ended the crisis over secession?
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11) What arguments did southern radicals advance in urging secession? Were there effective
rebuttals to these arguments?
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12) Which of the following issues was most central to provoking civil war: the debate over
slavery, the debate over states’ rights, or the growing economic and social differences between
North and South? Defend your position by discussing specific events from the 1850s.
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13) After 1840, the most important stimulus to economic growth came from ________
construction.
13) ______
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14) The flood of new immigrants escaping the potato famine in ________ attracted nativist
hostility not only because they were foreign but also because they were Catholic.
14) ______
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15) Senator Stephen Douglas sponsored the _______ Act, the fateful piece of legislation that
toppled the second party system and started the nation on its road to civil war.
15) ______
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16) Known as the Know-Nothings, the American Party was strongly anti-immigrant and,
because of the church’s “undemocratic” hierarchy, anti-________.
16) ______
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17) Abraham Lincoln first won national prominence in a series of senatorial campaign
confrontations known as the Lincoln-_________ debates.
17) ______
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18) Political parties disintegrated in the 1850s; the last one to shatter, in 1860, was the
________ Party.
18) ______
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19) The presidential election of 1860 was really two contests in one: Breckinridge versus Bell
in the South; and Lincoln versus ________ in the North.
19) ______
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20) The first shot of the Civil War was fired by South Carolinians on Union forces at Fort
_______.
20) ______
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21) The chapter introduction tells the stories of Lawrence and Pottawatomie, Kansas, to make
the point that
21) ______
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A) westward migration continued despite the distractions of sectional strife.
B) it was deliberate, violent acts by an extremist minority that sucked Americans into
civil war.
C) the ability of settlers in Kansas to disagree, yet still get along, shows that the Civil
War was not necessarily inevitable.
D) violence in Kansas discredited popular sovereignty, the only remaining compromise
solution to the growing sectional split.
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22) Which of the following does NOT characterize the American economy in the 1840s and
1850s?
22) ______
A) Transportation improvements on land and water, especially the rise of the railroad,
transformed the American economy.
B) Agriculture remained largely unaffected by technology, and thus diminished in
importance as a component of the market economy.
C) The maturing factory system employed a growing industrial workforce, increasingly
foreign-born.
D) Water power was increasingly being replaced by steam power.
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23) Which is a correct statement regarding mid-century immigrants?
23) ______
A) Germans fled a severe potato famine.
B) Germans, Irish, and Scandinavians came seeking improved economic opportunity.
C) The Irish and Scandinavians tended to come as families with some resources, but the
Germans were usually single men from impoverished backgrounds.
D) Immigration swelled to its highest levels during periods of economic downturns in the
U.S., when employers sought cheaper labor.
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24) What weakened the natural economic and political ties of the South to the West?
24) ______
A) Southerners opposed federal aid for economic development.
B) Railroads diverted trade from the Mississippi artery in an eastward direction.
C) Southerners opposed federal aid for economic development, and railroads diverted
trade from the Mississippi.
D) None of these answers are correct.
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25) Who invented a sharp-cutting steel plow that could slice through the thick tangle of
prairie grass roots without the soil sticking to the blade?
25) ______
A) John Deere
B) Cyrus McCormick
C) Edmund Flagg
D) Eli Whitney
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26) Which of the following was an unintentional consequence of railroads in the urban
environment?
26) ______
A) the economic survival of urban communities becoming less dependent on rail links
B) living near the tracks becoming a marker of social and economic divisions
C) increased traffic in fashionable neighborhoods and shopping areas
D) None of these answers are correct.
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27) By mid-century, the birth rate was declining, but population continued to grow. The
explanation for this paradox is also the explanation for another development in those years, the
27) ______
A) rise of the medical and nursing professions in the United States.
B) rise of the short-lived American Party.
C) Gadsden Purchase.
D) Ostend Manifesto.
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28) What was the Gadsden Purchase?
28) ______
A) the acquisition of a strip of Mexican land as a railroad route
B) a payment to Britain to clear the last jointly held area in the Oregon country
C) an offer to buy Cuba from Spain that was rejected by Congress
D) an agreement with Russia to obtain Alaska
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29) Southerners voiced many concerns and complaints in the 1850s, including all of the
following EXCEPT
29) ______
A) that the North was making the South into its economic colony.
B) that the immigrant influx strengthened the North’s dominance in the House of
Representatives.
C) that only the expansion of slave states could overcome the South’s isolation and
decreasing political clout.
D) that the threats against slavery had led to a sharp drop in the market value of slaves.
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30) Which of the following was NOT a ripple effect of the growth of the railroad economy?
30) ______
A) Farmers began to specialize in cash crops and market them in distant locations.
B) Farmers purchased more manufactured goods.
C) The mining and iron industries grew significantly.
D) Seaport towns became economic hubs.
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31) What point was the Swedish immigrant trying to make to his friends and family back
home when he wrote that since settling in Iowa in 1850, “I have not been compelled to pay a
penny for the privilege of living. Neither is my cap worn out from lifting it in the presence of
gentlemen”?
31) ______
A) Local gangs have not put a price on his head.
B) Clothing is cheaper and more durable in the United States.
C) Taxes are low in the United States and social equality palpable.
D) The United States offered much the same blessings as his Scandinavian home.
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32) Southerners voiced many concerns and complaints in the 1850s, including all of the
following EXCEPT
32) ______
A) that the North was making the South into its economic colony.
B) that the immigrant influx strengthened the North’s dominance in the House of
Representatives.
C) that only the expansion of slave states could overcome the South’s isolation and
decreasing political clout.
D) that the threats against slavery had led to a sharp drop in the market value of those
who were enslaved.
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33) Which of the following was NOT one of the solutions southerners pursued in response to
the region’s internal economic problems?
33) ______
A) lower wages
B) agricultural reform
C) bringing industry to the South
D) military expeditions into Latin America
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34) Who did Ralph Waldo Emerson praise as a “saint, whose martyrdom will make the
gallows as glorious as the cross”?
34) ______
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Lady Liberty
C) Uncle Sam
D) John Brown
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35) According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would be the status of slavery in those
western territories?
35) ______
A) Slavery would be expressly prohibited.
B) Slavery would be expressly permitted.
C) Slavery would be permitted in Kansas but banned in Nebraska.
D) The people would decide.
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36) Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act so controversial?
36) ______
A) Because it worked to the advantage of Douglas’s home state, southerners felt betrayed.
B) Because it overturned a policy on slavery already in place, northerners felt betrayed.
C) Because it did not provide for land grants along with territorial government,
westerners felt betrayed.
D) Because it would attract immigrants who would vote Democrat, Whigs felt betrayed.
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37) The Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
37) ______
A) the restoration of the Missouri Compromise.
B) the destruction of the Whig Party in the South.
C) the formation of the new Republican Party in the North.
D) virtual civil war in Kansas.
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38) Which of the following was an issue driving the collapse of the Jacksonian party system?
38) ______
A) religion
B) alcohol
C) slavery
D) All these answers are correct.
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39) The Republican Party
39) ______
A) quickly won solid voter support in the elections of 1854 and 1855.
B) prospered because of northern outrage over “Bleeding Sumner” and “Bleeding
Kansas.”
C) won the presidency the first time it fielded a national ticket.
D) advocated popular sovereignty to defuse the issue of slavery in the territories.
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40) The most important component of the ideology of the Republican Party at its founding
was
40) ______
A) a nationalist approach to economic development.
B) free labor.
C) immigration restriction.
D) a repudiation of the Revolution and acceptance of slavery.
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41) Which statement about the Republican Party is true?
41) ______
A) It attracted a coalition of voters throughout the nation.
B) It emerged from a coalition of Democrats and Whigs who opposed the Kansas-
Nebraska Act.
C) It was a sectional party pledged to the spread of slavery.
D) It was led by the principle of popular sovereignty.
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42) The “Know-Nothing” or nativist movement (later the American Party), which prospered
especially in the northeastern states, was characterized by its
42) ______
A) states’ rights position.
B) antislavery position.
C) defense of Native American rights.
D) anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant position.
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43) Whose political cause benefitted the most from Preston Brooks’ brutal caning of Charles
Sumner on the Senate floor in 1856?
43) ______
A) Preston Brooks’s cause
B) the Republican Party’s cause
C) the Slave Power’s cause
D) the Know-Nothing Party’s cause
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44) What turned the 1854 elections in Kansas from routine territorial organization into a
referendum on slavery?
44) ______
A) popular sovereignty
B) the Freeport Doctrine
C) the Dred Scott decision
D) the Lecompton constitution
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45) To what does “Bleeding Sumner” refer?
45) ______
A) violence in a small town in Kansas
B) violence on the floor of the U.S. Senate
C) the agonized pleas on behalf of free labor made by a New York editor
D) the threats of secession and armed defense of southern rights made by a southern
congressman
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46) In addition to the Democratic and Republican tickets, additional presidential candidates
were fielded in 1856 by the ________ and in 1860 by the _______.
46) ______
A) Whig Party; American Party
B) American Party; Free Soil Party
C) Southern Democratic Party; Constitutional Union Party
D) American Party; Constitutional Union Party
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47) The Dred Scott decision
47) ______
A) struck down the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
B) asserted that Congress could prohibit slavery in any territory.
C) asserted that Congress could not ban slavery from any territory.
D) freed Dred Scott.
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48) Which of the following was NOT part of the Dred Scott decision?
48) ______
A) The popular sovereignty doctrine was a violation of the First Amendment.
B) Congress does not have the power to ban slavery from any territory of the United
States.
C) The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
D) Enslaved people were not and could not ever be citizens.
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49) What was so important about the Lecompton constitution?
49) ______
A) It was a proslavery document, fairly drawn, that Congress approved.
B) It was a proslavery document, pushed through by fraud, which Congress did not
approve.
C) Douglas’s support for it undermined his political credibility in the North.
D) Congress had not authorized a separate state of Lecompton.
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50) In his Freeport Doctrine, Douglas defended popular sovereignty despite the Dred Scott
ruling by arguing that
50) ______
A) theScott case was not a valid constitutional interpretation.
B) if the people of a territory refused to pass a slave code, slavery would never be
established there.
C) Americans would stand behind congressional legislation to reverse the decision.
D) strategic river cities that chose to ban slavery within their city limits would set the
tone for the whole territory.
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51) Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel that was quickly adapted into a play, had a significant impact
on northern opinion because it
51) ______
A) took advantage of the fact that influential middle-class Americans were regular
playgoers.
B) introduced ordinary Americans to the literary classics.
C) conveyed a moral condemnation of slavery.
D) presented for the first time a factual account of the actual conditions of slavery in the
South.
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52) While northerners increasingly feared _______, southerners raised the specter of
_______.
52) ______
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A) that the West would become contaminated by enslaved people; a South contaminated
by northern free-labor industrialism
B) the South’s secessionist threats; the North’s determination to abolish slavery once and
for all
C) a Slave Power conspiracy; a conspiracy by the Black Republicans
D) economic uncertainty; social chaos
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53) Which statement about the southern economy in the later 1850s is true?
53) ______
A) A sense of crisis grew in the region as the price of people who were enslaved jumped
and the price of cotton remained relatively stagnant.
B) The progress of transportation development reoriented western trade toward New
Orleans.
C) Although cotton’s importance as an export crop declined, it remained the primary
driver of domestic economic growth.
D) As they converted to the new agricultural machinery, southern planters found
themselves deeply in debt in a time of declining profits.
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54) John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry was significant for all of the following reasons
EXCEPT
54) ______
A) that it provoked bloody retaliation against antislavery voters in Kansas.
B) that it intensified southern fears of slave insurrection.
C) that it intensified southern suspicions about the Republican Party.
D) that it added to the southerners’ belief that their interests could not be protected within
the Union.
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55) The first shots of the Civil War were fired when
55) ______
A) South Carolina seceded.
B) the Confederate States of America was established.
C) Lincoln decided to hold a fort on southern soil.
D) northern forces invaded Virginia.
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56) What state took the lead role in encouraging the other states of the Deep South to secede
from the Union?
56) ______
A) South Carolina
B) Alabama
C) Virginia
D) Kentucky
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