Test Ch. 13-14
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Chapter 13
1) Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the Young America movement?
A) a weak foreign policy
B) territorial expansion
C) economic expansion and growth
D) technological progress
E) a celebration of American virtue
2) In ______, Herman Melville produced a novel, original in form and conception, to fulfill the
demand of Young Americans for a New Literature.
A) Moby Dick
B) Tristram Shandy
C) The Scarlet Letter
D) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
E) Ulysses
3) The American population moved westward in the 1830s and 1840s for all of the following
reasons, EXCEPT
A) fertile land.
B) economic opportunity.
C) religious freedom.
D) loyalty to Mexico and Great Britain.
E) a sense of adventure.
4) Which of the following was NOT Mexican territory in 1825?
A) California
B) Oregon
C) Texas
D) New Mexico
E) Arizona
5) Which of the following Mexican policies irritated the Anglo-American settlers of Texas in the
early 1830s?
A) Mexico’s protection of the institution of slavery
B) the dominance of Protestant churches in Mexico
C) the refusal of the Mexican government to recognize Anglo land boundaries
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
6) Which one of the following states actually existed for ten years as an independent nation
before its admission to the Union?
A) California
B) New Mexico
C) Colorado
D) Texas
E) Arizona
7) ______, the hero of San Jacinto, became the first president of the Texas Republic.
A) Stephen F. Austin
B) W. B. Travis
C) Sam Houston
D) William Becknell
E) Frank Dallas
8) The most important overland route for American migration to the far West was
A) the Sante Fe Trail.
B) the Chisholm Trail.
C) the Cumberland Road.
D) the Oregon Trail.
E) the California Trail.
9) The founder of the Mormon Church was
A) Lee Roberts.
B) Brigham Young.
C) Sam Houston.
D) Joseph Smith.
E) Josiah Deseret.
10) The leader of the Mormon trek to Utah was
A) Moses Austin.
B) Brigham Young.
C) Joseph Smith.
D) John C. Fremont.
E) Josiah Deseret.
11) In the presidential election of 1844,
A) James Polk identified himself with the most popular cause of the times.
B) Martin Van Buren supported the annexation of Texas.
C) Henry Clay actively campaigned against annexation.
D) James Polk received a mandate to implement his campaign promises.
E) James Polk seemed to exemplify the Young America movement.
12) The rallying cry “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight” referred to which desired territory?
A) Oregon
B) California
C) Texas
D) New Mexico
E) Arizona
13) Which one of the following was an important premise of Manifest Destiny?
A) God supported American expansion
B) the “area of freedom” should be expanded
C) population growth required new territories
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
14) The United States expected the Mexican-American War
A) to be a long and costly affair.
B) to be of a relatively short duration.
C) to involve a possible confrontation with Great Britain.
D) to win widespread popular support.
E) to be costly but worth it.
15) Each of the following occurred during the Mexican-American War EXCEPT
A) Zachary Taylor’s troops defeated a large Mexican army at Buena Vista.
B) Winfield Scott’s forces captured Mexico City.
C) the Kearny expedition secured control of Santa Fe.
D) William B. Travis and his men were annihilated at the Alamo.
E) the presence of John C. Fremont’s forces in California gave the U.S. an excuse to claim
that area.
16) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided each of the following EXCEPT
A) it confirmed the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas.
B) the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million in cash, plus other considerations.
C) Mexico ceded New Mexico and California to the U.S.
D) guaranteed that slavery would not be allowed west of the Rio Grande.
E) agreed that Mexican residents of the ceded areas would become American citizens.
17) By the end of the 1850s, railroads had
A) run the canals completely out of business.
B) enabled nationwide marketing of almost anything.
C) tied the North and the South together.
D) transformed the American economy.
E) been extended all the way to the Pacific Coast.
18) The growth of American industry in the 1830s and 1840s was NOT influenced by
A) the transition to a factory setting.
B) the development of mass production.
C) the discovery of new natural resources.
D) the use of interchangeable parts.
E) the payment of cash wages to workers.
19) One of the most important effects of the American industrial revolution was
A) a great wave of immigration.
B) the growth of socialism.
C) the automation of factories.
D) a decline in the need for labor.
E) unionization.
20) The major factor that pushed the Irish immigrant to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s
was
A) the oppression of the British government.
B) the decline in the number of jobs in Ireland.
C) the overpopulation of Ireland.
D) the great potato famine.
E) the persecution of Catholics.
21) The inventor of the mechanical reaper was
A) John Deere.
B) Robert Lowell.
C) Charles Goodyear.
D) Cyrus McCormick.
E) Henry Bessemer.
22) The majority of immigrants became
A) farmers.
B) businessmen.
C) wage workers in factories.
D) skilled craftsmen.
E) sharecroppers.
23) The increasing employment of immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s
A) had little effect on worker organization.
B) tended to force wages up.
C) had little effect on wages.
D) made it difficult to organize industrial workers.
E) encouraged immigrants to assimilate as soon as possible in hopes of getting better
paying positions.
Chapter 14
1) In 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, almost
beat Senator ______of Massachusetts to death.
A) Thaddeus Stevens
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Charles Sumner
D) Zachary Taylor
E) William Graham Sumner
2) Northern attempts to attack slavery were limited by
A) the absence of federal authority to regulate slavery.
B) the apathy of most northerners regarding the question.
C) the presence of more important issues before Congress.
D) the absence of strong northern congressional leadership.
E) the amount of money slave industries contributed to the national economy.
3) During the 1840s, most northerners
A) disliked slavery.
B) detested abolitionism.
C) supported abolitionism.
D) both A and B
E) both A and C
4) The Wilmot Proviso won support from northern Democrats who were upset about each of the
following EXCEPT
A) Polk being nominated in 1844 instead of Van Buren.
B) Polk’s support of a tariff reduction that hurt the northern economy.
C) Polk’s veto of an internal improvements bill.
D) Polk’s insistence on claiming the entire Oregon Country in 1846.
E) Polk’s waging war against Mexico to add California to the U.S.
5) Wilmot’s Proviso would have
A) freed the slaves.
B) prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico.
C) called for the shipment of blacks back to Africa.
D) abolished slavery in most northern states.
E) established the guidelines for popular sovereignty.
6) According to the principle of popular sovereignty,
A) Congress would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
B) territorial legislatures would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
C) settlers would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
D) the Supreme Court would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
E) the House of Representatives would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
7) The winner of the election of 1848 was
A) Franklin Pierce.
B) Martin Van Buren.
C) James K. Polk.
D) Millard Fillmore.
E) Zachary Taylor.
8) The key organizer of the Compromise of 1850 was
A) John C. Calhoun.
B) Henry Clay.
C) Lewis Cass.
D) Zachary Taylor.
E) Roger B. Taney.
9) The Compromise of 1850
A) abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
B) served as the basis for lasting sectional peace.
C) prohibited slavery in the New Mexico territory.
D) drove the South to a new extremist position.
E) was revised in 1851.
10) The political party known especially for its anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic philosophy was the
A) Free Soil Party.
B) Whig Party.
C) Know-Nothing Party.
D) Democratic Party.
E) Liberty Party.
11) In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen Douglas attempted to set up territorial government on
the basis of
A) the Compromise of 1850.
B) Free Soil ideology.
C) Congressional approval or disapproval of slavery.
D) presidential approval or disapproval of slavery.
E) popular sovereignty.
12) The Know-Nothing Party failed because of each of the following factors EXCEPT
A) its northern and southern wings split over slavery.
B) the rival Republicans had wider popular appeal.
C) immigration declined in the mid 1850s.
D) the conflict in Kansas heightened concerns over slavery.
E) most immigrants proved to be loyal Americans.
13) On the issue of slavery, Republicans defended the rights of
A) industrialists.
B) the South.
C) slaves.
D) free labor.
E) slave owners.
14) The “free-state” capital of Kansas was at
A) Lecompton.
B) Salina.
C) Lawrence.
D) Wichita.
E) Kansas City.
15) The Republican Party
A) received broad-based support throughout the nation.
B) was primarily a sectional party.
C) was a party of farmers and laborers.
D) was the party of northern industrialists.
E) struggled in its first years of existence.
16) A smaller civil war, which was a rehearsal for the later political disaster in the United States,
was fought in which state during the late 1850s?
A) Missouri
B) Kansas
C) South Carolina
D) Tennessee
E) Texas
17) In the 1850s, the most important example of literary abolitionism was
A) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
B) Moby Dick
C) Walden
D) The Raven
E) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
18) The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was
A) Simon Legree.
B) Harriet Tubman.
C) Edgar Allan Poe.
D) James Russell Lowell.
E) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
19) The Dred Scott decision
A) supported the gradual emancipation of slaves.
B) reinforced the principles of the Missouri Compromise.
C) was looked upon favorably by the South.
D) helped reduce sectional tensions.
E) was looked upon favorably by abolitionists.
20) The Lecompton constitution
A) represented the interests of most Kansans.
B) was an antislavery statement.
C) had few problems being accepted by Congress.
D) evoked bitter debates in Congress.
E) helped settle the sectional quarrel, if only for a short time.
21) In his debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln
A) took a conservative position on slavery.
B) took a position similar to Douglas on the issue of slavery.
C) avoided discussing the issue of slavery.
D) took a radical position on the issue of sectional conflict.
E) restated his belief in popular sovereignty.
22) John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
A) increased southern fears of northern hostility.
B) was condemned by most northerners.
C) had little effect on sectional tensions.
D) was intended as a statement against the government of the United States.
E) has been exaggerated by historians.
23) Hinton R. Helper’s The Impending Crisis of the South
A) supported slavery.
B) called for lower-class whites to abolish slavery.
C) reduced southern fears about the future of slavery.
D) had little impact on the sectional crisis.
E) voiced the opinion of a majority of southerners.
24) The Republicans were successful in the election of 1860 because
A) they compromised on the issue of slavery.
B) they were able to win decisively in the North.
C) they won significant, southern support.
D) Abraham Lincoln offered the potential for sectional harmony.
E) the Democrats ran a sloppy campaign.