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Which of the following early American political parties most vocally championed the
"common man," welcomed immigrants, and benefitted from the expansion of voting
rights to most white males?
A) The Federalists
B) The Democratic-Republicans
Feedback: The Democratic-Republicans were less elite and championed "simplicity,"
but they did not favor broad democracy or welcome immigrants.
C) The Whigs
D) The Democrats
- ANSWER D.
Antebellum era reform movements such as abolitionism, temperance, and women's
rights had their origins in all of the following EXCEPT
A) the Monroe Doctrine.
Feedback: None of the antebellum-era reform movements had their origins in the
Monroe Doctrine. President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to
prevent European nations from pursuing further efforts to create colonies in the Western
Hemisphere.
B) the Second Great Awakening.
C) beliefs in human perfectibility.
D) liberal European social ideas.
- ANSWER A.
"I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come as the advocate of
helpless, forgotten, insane and idiotic men and women; of beings sunk to a condition
from which the most unconcerned would start with real horror; of beings wretched in our
Prisons, and more wretched in our Alms-Houses....I proceed, Gentlemen, briefly to call
your attention to the present state of Insane Persons confined within this
Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with
rods, and lashed into obedience!...The crying evil and abuse of institutions, is not
confined to our almshouses. The warden of a populous prison near this metropolis,
populous, not with criminals only, but with the insane in almost every stage of
insanity...has declared that: "the prison has often more resembled the infernal regions
than any place on earth!"...Gentlemen, I commit to you this sacred cause. Your action
upon
- ANSWER D.
"I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come as the advocate of
helpless, forgotten, insane and idiotic men and women; of beings sunk to a condition
from which the most unconcerned would start with real horror; of beings wretched in our
,Prisons, and more wretched in our Alms-Houses....I proceed, Gentlemen, briefly to call
your attention to the present state of Insane Persons confined within this
Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with
rods, and lashed into obedience!...The crying evil and abuse of institutions, is not
confined to our almshouses. The warden of a populous prison near this metropolis,
populous, not with criminals only, but with the insane in almost every stage of
insanity...has declared that: "the prison has often more resembled the infernal regions
than any place on earth!"...Gentlemen, I commit to you this sacred cause. Your action
upon
- ANSWER A.
"[I promise]...to demonstrate in the course of...my Appeal...that we Coloured People of
these United States, are, the most wretched, degraded and abject set of beings that
ever lived since the world began, down to the present day, and that the white Christians
of America, who hold us in slavery, (or, more properly speaking, pretenders to
Christianity,) treat us more cruel and barbarous than any Heathen nation did any people
whom it had subjected, or reduced to the same condition....I advance it therefore to
you...as an unshaken and forever immoveable fact, that your full glory and happiness,
as well as all other coloured people under Heaven, shall never be fully consummated,
but with the entire emancipation of your enslaved brethren all over the world."
David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829
David Walker, Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, To the
Coloured Citizens o - ANSWER A.
The concept of popular sovereignty held that
A) Congress had the sole right to determine where slavery would exist
B) citizens living within the new territory would decide for themselves on the existence
of slavery
C) individual property holders will decide whether or not to hold slaves
D) a national referendum vote decided the slavery issue for new states
E) state courts had the right to overturn citizens' decisions regarding slavery
- ANSWER B.
The Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott case outraged public opinion in the North
chiefly because it
A) declared the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
B) guaranteed citizenship to free blacks
C) removed restrictions against the spread of slavery into the western territories
D) failed to abolish slavery in the South
E) challenged California's status as a free state
- ANSWER C.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectional tensions because it
A) enriched northern railroad investors at the expense of the South
B) reopened the issue of slavery in the territory north of 36o30'
,C) supported proslavery state constitutions in Kansas and Nebraska
D) repealed the Compromise of 1850
E) persuaded the Whig Party to side with South
- ANSWER B.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
A) Lincoln's emergence as a national political figure
B) increased support for Douglas in the South
C) Douglas' reelection to the Senate
D) Douglas' attempt to reconcile popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision
E) increased public awareness of slavery as a moral issue
- ANSWER B.
All of the following statements about the election of 1860 are true EXCEPT
A) The Republicans won control of the presidency but not Congress
B) No candidate received a majority of the popular vote
C) The popular and electoral votes were divided among four candidates
D) Lincoln's majority in the electoral college was secured with the division of the
Democratic Party in 1860
E) A major consequence was that several southern states seceded from the Union -
ANSWER A.
The concept of popular sovereignty involves
A) squatter's rights to free land in the West
B) the open sale of land in the Mexican cession
C) removal of Native Americans from the Great Plains
D) the enforcement of fugitive slave laws
E) territorial citizens choosing to be free or slave
- ANSWER E.
Despite being made up of members from various parties, the Republicans held firm in
their belief that
A) slavery was morally wrong
B) popular sovereignty was the proper course of action
C) the South had the right to leave the Union
D) slavery should not be extended into the territories
E) the Dred Scott decision was justified by the Constitution
- ANSWER D.
The best example of rising sectional tensions caused by westward expansion in
antebellum America can be seen in
A) the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
B) the Bear Flag Republic
C) the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
D) the Wilmot Proviso
E) the failure to annex Texas
, - ANSWER D.
"You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all
the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their
rights."
- William Lloyd Garrison
This words would most likely have come from
A) the Free Soil Party Platform
B) sermons of the 2nd Great Awakening
C) the abolitionist paper The Liberator
D) the book, Cannibals All
E) Reconstruction Congressional Records
- ANSWER C.
By the outbreak of the Civil War, the South differed from the North in that the South
A) had a more developed transportation system
B) boasted a more educated white citizenry
C) contained more cities than the North
D) attracted fewer European immigrants
E) allowed women to vote in local elections
- ANSWER D.
Which of the following is NOT one of the terms of the Compromise of 1850?
A) A stronger fugitive slave act
B) California would be admitted as a free state
C) Popular sovereignty would be used to settle the slavery issue in New Mexico and
Utah
D) Slavery would end in Washington, D.C.
E) The Texas/New Mexico border dispute was settled with a government payment -
ANSWER D.
The Fugitive Slave Law included all of the following provisions EXCEPT:
A) the requirement that the Canadian government return runaways to the U.S.
B) denial of a jury trial for alleged runaway slaves
C) denial of fleeing slaves' right to testify on their own behalf
D) penalties such as fines and jail time for northerners who helped runaways
E) court cases for alleged runaways being held in federal courts
- ANSWER A.
The Free Soilers condemned slavery because
A) of the harm it did to blacks
B) of moral principles
C) it destroyed the employment chances for white workers
D) it was the only way they had to counter the appeal of the Democratic Party
E) it damaged the national economy
