Question 1
The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court involved a slave who
a. had been taken to live in Kansas.
b. was suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory.
c. sued for his wife's freedom on the grounds that she had been married to a free black.
d. had been freed by his master and who challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
e. wished to exercise his right to vote.

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Question 2
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
a. divided the Nebraska Territory into two territories.
b. repealed the Missouri Compromise.
c. represented the interests of the southern faction of the Democratic Party.
d. was supported by Stephen Douglas.
e. all of the above.

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Question 3
White southerners justified the institution of slavery with each of the following religious arguments except
a. Jesus never criticized slavery.
b. slaves were the descendants of Ham and deserved enslavement.
c. slavery had given African Americans Christianity.
d. the Epistles of Paul urged slaves to obey their masters.
e. slavery was a gift from God.

Question 4
The national culture that developed after the 1830s included all of the following elements except
a. republicanism.
b. capitalism.
c. abolitionism.
d. Protestantism.
e. paternalism.

Question 5
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
a. authorized the United States to pay $15 million to Mexico.
b. fixed the Texas border at the Rio Grande.
c. ended the United States' war with Mexico.
d. ceded the Northwestern section of Mexico to the U.S.
e. all of the above.

Question 6
The political party that emerged in the 1830s to oppose Andrew Jackson was the ____ Party.
a. Republican
b. Liberty
c. Whig
d. Know-Nothing
e. Free Soil

Question 7
The phrase "the spoils system" referred to
a. corrupt politicians who spoiled the public image of national office holders.
b. the government agency set up to regulate garbage collection and disposal.
c. Andrew Jackson's use of presidential appointive powers to reward his supporters with government jobs.
d. Martin Van Buren's efforts to ruin the relationship between Jackson and John C. Calhoun.
e. the bargain made between Clay and Adams in the election of 1824.

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Question 8
"Popular sovereignty" was the belief that
a. the United States was destined to control the entire continent.
b. the American Indian was the ward of the U.S. government.
c. settlers to a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.
d. the federal government had the final authority on slavery in the territories.
e. citizens should be free to choose their own reading material.

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Question 9
The abolitionists of the 1830s
a. were all members of the Quaker faith.
b. advocated a bloody civil war to punish slave owners.
c. encouraged the admission of the free state of Texas to the union.
d. persuaded the majority of northern citizens to oppose slavery.
e. were an active and influential minority within the reform movements of the era.

Question 10
Many nineteenth-century northern social reformers believed that criminals, the mentally ill, and poor people
a. were lazy, sinful, devil worshippers.
b. could not be helped by government policies or institutions.
c. should either be drafted into the army or employed in federal work camps.
d. should be deported.
e. had been mistreated as children and could be rehabilitated as adults.

Question 11
In the "Freeport Doctrine,"
a. the Supreme Court ruled that residence in Freeport, Illinois, did not automatically free runaways.
b. Stephen Douglas suggested that the territories could maintain popular sovereignty by refusing to protect slavery there.
c. Abraham Lincoln agreed that there was no means of preventing the extension of slavery.
d. Stephen Douglas insisted that slavery was legal in all the free states and territories.
e. slaves who escaped to the North were declared free.

Question 12
Andrew Jackson criticized the Bank because he believed that it
a. benefited northern and foreign investors at the expense of southern and western farmers.
b. was too liberal with its loan policies.
c. did not exercise enough centralized control over the monetary system.
d. charged excessive interest rates.
e. benefited plantation owners more than small farmers.

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Question 13
Non-slaveholders in the South were held together by
a. kinship.
b. economic interest.
c. race.
d. a belief in white supremacy.
e. all of the above.

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Question 14
The first Women's Rights Convention (1848) was held in
a. Philadelphia.
b. Seneca Falls.
c. Boston.
d. Charleston.
e. New York City.

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Question 15
Between 1790 and 1820, voting rights
a. increasingly excluded most artisans and laborers.
b. remained strongly tied to property ownership.
c. increased in New England but declined in the South.
d. was never limited to just free white men.
e. became easier and greatly expanded for white men.

Question 16
The Democratic Party
a. supported both agrarian democratic principles and the continuation of southern slavery.
b. favored strict limitations on voting rights.
c. was similar in policy and constituencies to the Federalist Party.
d. was almost destroyed by the election of 1828.
e. was organized to oppose Andrew Jackson.

Question 17
The one issue in the Compromise of 1850 that clearly favored the South was
a. resolution of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute.
b. the Fugitive Slave Act.
c. the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
d. the settlement of Texas war debt.
e. the admission of California.

Question 18
The Whig party supported all of the following except
a. public suspicion and mistrust of the influence of privileged economic groups on federal policies.
b. moral legislation regulating alcohol consumption.
c. government-supported internal improvements.
d. an active government role in encouraging the expansion of the market economy.
e. public schools.

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Question 19
In the south, evangelicals
a. challenged the social hierarchy.
b. held that social roles were made by God.
c. criticized the patriarchal family.
d. claimed the social hierarchy was in need of constant change.
e. all of the above.

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Question 20
The Ostend Manifesto was
a. a document in which the United States threatened to seize control of Cuba.
b. the treaty that gave Cuba its independence.
c. an attempted Spanish invasion of Louisiana.
d. the antislavery newspaper that published Uncle Tom's Cabin.
e. the U.S. demand for Texas.