Chapter 12-13 Multiple Choice Exam Questions

Question 1

The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was

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Harriet Tubman

Question 2

Most Free-Soilers opposed the spread of slavery because it

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would take jobs from free men

Question 3

The Wilmot Proviso sought to

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ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico

Question 4

Although some rail lines were built in the South in the 1840s, southerners at mid-century still relied mainly on

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steamboats

Question 5

Most Germans who immigrated to America in the mid-1800s were

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farmers

Question 6

The Oneida Association was an example of a

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utopian society

Question 7

The first national convention for women’s rights was held at

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Seneca Falls, New York

Question 8

The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 9

According to the principle of popular sovereignty

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settlers would determine whether a territory would have slavery

Question 10

The Wilmot Proviso, which never passed, would have

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prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico

Question 11

The Know-Nothings were

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anti-Catholic and nativist

Question 12

For most Southerners, John Brown’s raid offered proof that

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Northerners plotted to murder slaveholders

Question 13

After passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, many Northerners headed to Kansas to

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create an antislavery majority

Question 14

The Kansas-Nebraska Act further inflamed sectional tensions because it

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undid the Missouri Compromise

Question 15

John Brown’s intention in raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was to arm

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enslaved people and begin an insurrection against slaveholders

Question 16

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled as unconstitutional part of the

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Missouri Compromise

Question 17

The crisis that led to the Compromise of 1850 was

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California’s request to join the Union as a free state

Question 18

The thorny issue raised by California’s request to be admitted to the Union was

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what to do about the expansion of slavery

Question 19

The most problematic aspect of the Compromise of 1850 was

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the Fugitive Slave Act

Question 20

The political party formed in the mid-1800s to support “native Americans” in preference to newcomers was the

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“Know-Nothing” Party

Question 21

The Kansas-Nebraska Act did which of the following?

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Invalidate the Missouri Compromise and establish the concept of “popular sovereignty” (b and c)

Question 22

The controversy over Kansas suggested that popular sovereignty

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could easily lead to civil war within a territory

Question 23

In 1856, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina almost beat to death Senator ____ of Massachusetts.

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Charles Sumner

Question 24

John Brown led the killings of five men at Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas because he

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wanted to retaliate against the “sack of Lawrence”

Question 25

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that

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Scott was not a citizen of the United States and Scott could not sue in an American court (a and b)