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Question 1

Q: Which of the following resulted from arguments made by Southern politicians, such as the one in the excerpt, in the years prior to the Civil War?,

Answer 1

A: Slaveholders became more insistent on that maintaining the slave system was essential to protecting the South and its way of life.

Question 2

Which of the following was among the reasons that Calhoun argued slavery was a “positive good”?

Answer 2

Using Native Americans as slaves would be too costly for the operation of profitable plantations in the South.

Question 3

Which of the following views [held by some of the Framers of the Constitution] on slavery did Calhoun reject in the above excerpt?

Answer 3

Slavery was a necessary evil.

Question 4

The position expressed by Clay in the excerpt best serves as evidence of which of the following?

Answer 4

The acquisition of new territories created disputes over the expansion of slavery.

Question 5

Evidence in the excerpt best corroborates which of the following events? - Senator Henry Clay, speech in the United States Senate, 1850

Answer 5

Southern states sought more proslavery seats in the United States Congress.

Question 6

The excerpt best reflects which of the fofiowing historical situations? - Senator Henry Clay, speech in the United States Senate, 1850

Answer 6

Congressionar teaders sought political compromise to resolve discord between the North and South.

Question 7

Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (Seneca Falls Convention), 1848
What other “righteous cause” would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support?

Answer 7

Abotitionism

Question 8

Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (Seneca Falls Convention), 1848
The language and themes of the excerpt were most directly inspired by which of the following?

Answer 8

Decleration of Independence

Question 9

The proclamation most clearly provides for which of the following?

Answer 9

The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions

Question 10

The issuance of documents such as the proclamation generally had which of the following effects?

Answer 10

Increasing the visibility of organized opposition to slavery

Question 11

The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following? - map of growth in the united states 1783-1855

Answer 11

Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories

Question 12

In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown on the map was advocated by supporters of which of the following ideologies?

Answer 12

Manifest Destiny

Question 13

Which of the following was the most significant impact of South’s expansion described in the excerpt?

Answer 13

Conflict over the future of slavery

Question 14

Bar graph - The pattern depicted in the graph in the first half of the nineteenth century most directly resulted in:

Answer 14

the formation of a political party that promoted nativism

Question 15

Which Political Party opposed the large pumbers of Irish Catholic immigrants in the nineteenth century?

Answer 15

The Know-Nothing Party

Question 16

The language in the poster was most likely interpreted as promoting which of the following?

Answer 16

Nativist sentiment:

Question 17

Which of the following evidence did the American Temperance Society use in its argument about the need for the temperance movement?

Answer 17

Alcohol damaged people’s physical and emotional well-being.

Question 18

Which of the following people would be the most likely to be a member of the American Temperance Society in 1835?

Answer 18

A middle-class protestant woman from New York

Question 19

Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of Frederick Douglass in the excerpt?

Answer 19

Northern abolitionists

Question 20

What is the mest libely reason that Frederick Douglas viewed the Declaration of Independence as a “great doctrine”?

Answer 20

That the Decleration declared all men to be equal

Question 21

The language used in both excerpts most directly reflects the influence of which of the following?

Answer 21

The Second Great Awakening

Question 22

The excerpt from James Henry Hammond is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in the mid-nineteenth century?

Answer 22

The growing tendency among Southern slaveholders to justify slavery as a positive good

Question 23

Which of the following comparisons best describes Whitman’s and Giddings’ arguments about the Mexican -American War?

Answer 23

© Whitman argued that the war was intended to deter bad behavior, while Giddings argued that the war represented aggression by the United State»

Question 24

Based on their argumente in the excerpts, Giddings would likely agree with and Whitman would likely disagree with which of the following claims about the causes of the Mexican-American war?

Question 25

Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854 -The future of slavery in the yellow portion of the map above marked “Kansas-Territory” would be determined by:

Answer 25

Popular Sovereignty

Question 26

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act as illustrated on the map “nullify” the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 26

Kansas Nebraska Act

Question 27

According to Justice Taney in the excerpt above, Dred Scott was not entitled to his freedom because:

Answer 27

Dred Scott was the property of his (White) owner.

Question 28

What provision of the United States Constitution was Justice Taney referring to when he wrote that “the right to traffic in it [slavery)” was guaranteed for twenty years?

Answer 28

• The Constitutional guarantee of a minimum time for the trans-Atlantic slave trade to remain lawful

Question 29

The above “Wilmot Proviso” was most likely rejected by Southern senators because the proposed law would:

Answer 29

Prohibit territorial expansion of slavery in property acquired from Mexico.

Question 30

Which of the following is the most likely reason that Henry David Thoreau called John Brown a “crucified hero”?

Answer 30

Brown sacrificed his life for the cause of abolitionism.

Question 31

How did the majority of Southerners most likely view Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry?

Answer 31

With condemnation, because Brown was praised by many Northern antislavery activists.

Question 32

Why would a Southern plantation owner most likely support the annexation of Texas?

Answer 32

The Texas Constitution adopted after Texas became independent from Mexico protected slavery

Question 33

How did Texas racially classify “Spanish” Mexicans who occupied important social positions?

Answer 33

White