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2. Which of the following ideas contributed most
directly to the territorial changes shown in
the map?
(A) Abolitionism
(B) Manifest Destiny
(C) Popular sovereignty
(D) Containment
3. The acquisition of territory in the southwestern
region shown in the map intensified
controversies in the United States about
(A) granting free land in the new territories
(B) rights to mineral wealth and resources in
the new territories
(C) extending citizenship to people already in
the territories
(D) allowing slavery in the new territories
5. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president
on a Republican platform that advocated all of the
following EXCEPT
(A) higher protective tariffs
(B) government subsidies for a transcontinental
Railroad
(C) free western land for settlers who would live
and work on it
(D) the exclusion of slavery from United States
territorial possessions
(E) the abolition of slavery throughout the United States
.
9. Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of
the
1840s settled in
(A) urban areas of the North
(B) seacoast cities of the South
(C) rural sections of the Old Northwest
(D) California
(E) Appalachia
10. The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it
(A) provided for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Missouri
(B) excluded slavery from all territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
(C) prohibited slavery from future territorial acquisitions
(D) condemned the fugitive slave law
(E) closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery
12. The Republican Party of the 1850s took which
of the following positions on slavery?
(A) Residents of territories could decide on the basis of popular sovereignty whether to have
slavery.
(B) Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new
states.
(C) The federal government should abolish slavery.
(D) The federal government should purchase slaves from their masters and relocate
them to the west coast of Africa.
(E) Slavery was a state issue, and the federal
government should play no role in its
regulation.
14. The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
(A) measure’s endorsement of popular sovereignty
(B) admittance of Missouri as a slave state
and the establishment of the 36°30' line
(C) passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act
(D) admittance of Texas as a slave state
(E) legislation permitted the surveying of
a southern transcontinental railway line
15. "The question is simply this: can a negro whose ancestors were imported into this country
and sold as slaves become a member of the political community formed and brought into
existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights,
and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen, one of which rights
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is the privilege of suing in a court of the United States in the cases specified in the Constitution?
. . . It is the judgment of this court that it appears . . . that the plaintiff in error is not a citizen . . .
in the sense in which that word is used in the Constitution."
The decision in the excerpt held which of the following to be unconstitutional?
Answer A: The Northwest Ordinance
Answer B: The Louisiana Purchase
Answer C: The Missouri Compromise
Answer D: The Wilmot Proviso
16. "The question is simply this: can a negro whose ancestors were imported into this country
and sold as slaves become a member of the political community formed and brought into
existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights,
and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen, one of which rights
is the privilege of suing in a court of the United States in the cases specified in the Constitution?
. . . It is the judgment of this court that it appears . . . that the plaintiff in error is not a citizen . . .
in the sense in which that word is used in the Constitution."
Which of the following was the most immediate result of the decision in the excerpt?
Answer A: Tensions over slavery diminished.
Answer B: Support grew for the Republican Party.
Answer C: The United States fought a war with Mexico.
Answer D: Most slave states voted to secede from the Union.
18. "I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing here in the place . . . from which
sprang the institutions under which we live
. . . .
I have never had a feeling politically that did not
spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence
. . . .
It was not the
mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that
Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all
future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the
shoulders of all men
. . . .
"Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one
of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it can't be saved upon that principle, it
will be truly awful.
"Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed and war
. . . .
And
I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the Government
. . . .
"My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word
when I came here
. . . .
I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing
but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by."
The excerpt most likely reflects which of the following historical situations?
Answer A: Abraham Lincoln won all of the electoral college votes in the presidential election.
Answer B: Formerly enslaved people were given the right to vote in presidential elections.
Answer C: Southern states refused to participate in the presidential election.
Answer D: States in the South had begun seceding after the presidential election.
19. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The provision above overturned the
A: Alien and Sedition Acts
B: Chinese Exclusion Act
C: Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford
D: Supreme Court ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland
20) All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the
1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the
A) enforcement of a new fugitive slave law
B) decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case
C) imposition of a gag rule in the House of Representatives
D) proposal of the Ostend Manifesto
E) passage of the Wilmot Proviso
23) The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
a) the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
b) apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives by state population
c)
the implementation of the first income tax
d) government subsidies for American Indians who agreed to submit to reservation
life
e) the establishment of stricter regulations on immigration
24. "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, Novemppber 1863
After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the "new birth of freedom" that the
excerpt refers to?
A: Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
B: The compromise that resolved the election of 1876
C: Establishment of the Ku Klux Klan and similar organizations
D: Supreme Court rulings such as Plessy v. Ferguson
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25. "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 1863
Lincoln's main purpose in the excerpt was to
A: advocate racial equality
B: encourage the punishment of the South
C: propose expanded democratic voting rights
D: gain continued support for the war effort
27 "So many people ask me what they shall do; so few tell me what they can do.Yet
this is the pivot wherein all must turn.
"I believe that each of us who has his place to make should go where men are wanted,
and where employment is not bestowed as alms. Of course, I say to all who are in want
of work, GoWest! . . .
"On the whole I say, stay where you are; do as well as you can; and devote every spare
hour to making yourself familiar with the conditions and dexterity required for the
efficient conservation of out-door industry in a new country. Having mastered these,
gather up your family and GoWest!"
Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, letter to R. L. Sanderson, 1871
The advice in the excerpt most directly reflects the influence of which of the following
prevailing American ideas?
A: Nationalism
B: Popular sovereignty
C: Manifest Destiny
D: Isolationism
28. In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown in the map was advocated by
supporters of which of the following ideologies?
Answer A: Republicanism
Answer B: Abolitionism
Answer C: Progressivism
D: Manifest Destiny
29. (map)
Which of the following was a common justification in the United States for the trend
depicted in the map?
Answer A: The interest in greater access to trade with the British colonies in the
Americas
Answer B: The desire for better relations with Mexico
Answer C: The intention to assimilate Plains Indians into White society
D: The belief in White cultural and political superiority
30. Americans faced an overwhelming task after the Civil War and emancipation:
how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas—healing and
justice
....
[T]hese two aims never developed in historical balance. One might conclude
that this imbalance between outcomes of sectional healing and racial justice was simply
America's inevitable historical condition
....
But theories of inevitability...are rarely
satisfying
....
The sectional reunion after so horrible a civil war was a political triumph by
the late nineteenth century, but it could not have been achieved without the
resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of
bondage. This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of
American history from Appomattox to World War I."
David W. Blight, historian, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 2001
One key change immediately following the Civil War aimed at achieving the "racial
justice" that Blight describes was the
Answer A: establishment of a constitutional basis for citizenship and voting rights
Answer B: creation of new agencies to ensure racial integration in employment
Answer C: campaign by the federal government to eliminate poverty
D: desegregation of the United States armed forces
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31."Americans faced an overwhelming task after the Civil War and emancipation:
how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas—healing and
justice
....
[T]hese two aims never developed in historical balance. One might conclude
that this imbalance between outcomes of sectional healing and racial justice was simply
America's inevitable historical condition
....
But theories of inevitability...are rarely
satisfying
....
The sectional reunion after so horrible a civil war was a political triumph by
the late nineteenth century, but it could not have been achieved without the
resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of
bondage. This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of
American history from Appomattox to World War I."
David W. Blight, historian, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 2001
Which of the following best characterizes the "sectional reunion" Blight describes?
Answer A: Gilded Age financial policies encouraged economic growth in the North and
the South.
Answer B: The federal government removed troops from the South and eliminated aid
for former slaves.
Answer C: New political alliances united northern and southern members of the
Democratic Party to win control of both houses in Congress.
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D: White laborers in the North and African American farmers in the South joined
together in the Populist movement.
37. "[I am] commanded to explain to the Japanese that. . . [the United States]
population has rapidly spread through the country, until it has reached the shores of the
Pacific Ocean; that we have now large cities, from which, with the aid of steam vessels,
we can reach Japan in eighteen or twenty days; [and] that . . . the Japan seas will soon
be covered with our vessels.
"Therefore, as the United States and Japan are becoming every day nearer and nearer
to each other, the President desires to live in peace and friendship with your imperial
majesty, but no friendship can long exist, unless Japan ceases to act toward Americans
as if they were her enemies
. . . .
"Many of the large ships-of-war destined to visit Japan have not yet arrived in these
seas, though they are hourly expected; and [the United States has], as an evidence of
[its] friendly intentions . . . brought but four of the smaller ones, designing, should it
become necessary, to return to Edo [Tokyo] in the ensuing spring with a much larger
force."
Commodore Matthew C. Perry to the emperor of Japan, letter, 1853
The population trend described in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the
following domestic developments in the nineteenth century?
Answer A: The belief that it was the Manifest Destiny of the United States to control
territory across the continent
Answer B: The question of the role of government in funding internal improvements
Answer C: The claim that the United States should limit European colonialism in the
Western Hemisphere
D: The dispute over whether Congress should reestablish a national bank
38. "We, therefore, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention
assembled, do declare and ordain... that the several acts and parts of acts of the
Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and
imposts on the importation of foreign commodities...are unauthorized by the Constitution
of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void,
and no law, nor binding upon this State
....
"
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832
Arguments similar to those expressed in the excerpt were later employed to justify
which of the following?
Answer A: The entry into the Mexican-American War
Answer B: The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Answer C: The secession of most Southern states
D: The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
Question refers to the excerpt below.
39. "We have conquered many of the neighboring tribes of Indians, but we have
never thought of holding them in subjection—never of incorporating them into our
Union
....
To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind of
incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the
other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes
....
Ours, sir, is the Government of a white
race
....
[I]t is professed and talked about to erect these Mexicans into a Territorial
Government, and place them on an equality with the people of the United States. I
protest utterly against such a project."
Senator John C. Calhoun, "Conquest of Mexico" speech, 1848
Based on the excerpt, Calhoun would also be most likely to support which of the
following?
A Proslavery arguments
B Policies favoring immigration
C Expanded United States federal authority
D United States sale of disputed territory
. The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following?
A) A decreasing gap in wealth because land ownership increased among White
citizens
B) Decreasing tensions between White settlers and Native Americans because
expanded United States territory undercut competition
C) Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the
status of slavery in new territories
D) Increasing legal immigration for Asians because the United States became a
Pacific Rim
Which of these agreements was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850, which kept the
Union together?
California was admitted as a slave state
During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party took which of
the following positions on slavery?
Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new
states
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