HISTORY 101 Exam 3 Questions & Answers Graded A+

HIS 101 Exam 3 Questions & Answers Question 1: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe favored a constitutional amendment to Student answered: c) establish a national bank. Correct answer: b) provide for internal improvements. Question 2: In the election of 1828, Andrew Jackson was more popular than the incumbent president, John Quincy Adams, with ordinary folk and southern planters. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 3: The Rush-Bagot Agreement eliminated naval competition with the British on the Great Lakes. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 4: John C. Calhoun initially championed internal improvements, believing that western development would help the South. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 5: The 1810 census showed that the South had almost as many manufacturers as New England. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 6: The United States was able to acquire Florida easily because of Student answered: c) the lack of Spanish control over the area. Correct answer: c) the lack of Spanish control over the area. Question 7: There were no federal candidates for presidency in the election of 1824. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 8: The Monroe Doctrine was immediately and widely accepted as international law. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 9: As president, James Monroe Student answered: d) all of the above Correct answer: d) all of the above Question 10: In McCulloch v. Maryland, John Marshall Student answered: d) all of the above Correct answer: d) all of the above Question 11: In the 1816 vote on the Bank of the United States, Student answered: c) Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun supported it, but Daniel Webster opposed it. Correct answer: c) Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun supported it, but Daniel Webster opposed it. Question 12: Before the Tariff of 1816, New England shippers and southern farmers opposed a protective tariff. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 13: Andrew Jackson defeated the Seminole Indians in Spanish Florida. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 14: "The Republicans have out-federalized Federalism" refers to Republicans in the late 1810s supporting a national bank and a protective tariff. Student answered: b) False Correct answer: a) True Question 15: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 Student answered: c) ended the slave-state/free-state balance in the U.S. Senate. Correct answer: d) admitted Missouri as a slave state. Question 16: The "corrupt bargain" settled the presidential election of 1828. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 17: The "Era of Good Feelings" describes Student answered: c) James Monroe’s administration. Correct answer: c) James Monroe’s administration. Question 18: The "firebell in the night" that awakened and filled Jefferson with terror was the Student answered: c) Bank of the United States. Correct answer: b) issue of slavery. Question 19: In 1828, the idea that a state could nullify an act of Congress was proposed by Student answered: c) John Quincy Adams. Correct answer: a) John C. Calhoun. Question 20: Henry Clay was the dynamic nationalist who championed the American System. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 21: A collapse in cotton prices set off the panic of 1819. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 22: The percentage of Americans who could vote increased between 1790 and 1820 because Student answered: c) most states dropped the voting age for males. Correct answer: d) states abolished many property and taxpaying requirements. Question 23: Southern slave states sought to protect their national political interests by Student answered: c) limiting the size of the House of Representatives. Correct answer: b) ensuring an equal number of slave and free states. Question 24: In settling the northwestern boundary of the United States, Secretary of State Adams had to negotiate with Student answered: a) Russia. Correct answer: a) Russia. Question 25: The election of 1824 was decided when Student answered: c) Henry Clay supported John Quincy Adams. Correct answer: c) Henry Clay supported John Quincy Adams. Question 26: In the early 1800s, the trinity of ideas promoting economic nationalism consisted of Student answered: b) a powerful Supreme Court, a protective tariff, and a large navy. Correct answer: a) a national bank, a protective tariff, and internal improvements. Question 27: The Monroe Doctrine developed after France seemed ready to help Spain regain her old empire in Latin America, although most nations there had declared their independence. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 28: John Quincy Adams’s administration was crippled from the beginning because of the "corrupt bargain." Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 29: In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, the Supreme Court Student answered: d) established the supremacy of federal law because, as Marshall said, the "power to tax involves the power to destroy." Correct answer: b) expanded the definition of contracts and put them beyond state control. Question 30: The origin of today’s Democratic party can be found in Andrew Jackson’s split with the Democratic Republicans after the election of 1824. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 1: The most important national issue in the 1832 presidential election was the tariff. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 2: In the "age of the common man," the United States achieved true social and economic equality. Student answered: b) False Correct answer: b) False Question 3: The Distribution Act of 1836 gave surplus funds in the federal treasury as loans to the states. Student answered: b) False Correct answer: a) True Question 4: In the case of Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokees were a "distinct political community" in which Georgia law had no force. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 5: The first third party in presidential politics was the Whig party in 1832. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 6: The Whigs Student answered: c) generally opposed rechartering the national bank in 1832. Correct answer: b) were organized around supporters of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster. Question 7: Jackson helped to bring an early end to the Bank of the United States by Student answered: b) beginning to deposit government funds in state banks rather than in the Bank of the United States. Correct answer: b) beginning to deposit government funds in state banks rather than in the Bank of the United States. Question 8: Andrew Jackson was the first president born in poverty. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 9: Jackson’s veto of the Maysville Road Bill Student answered: b) indicated his support for the idea of nullification. Correct answer: a) struck at both Calhoun and Clay. Question 10: Between 1824 and 1849, participation in presidential elections declined. Student answered: b) False Correct answer: b) False Question 11: As a result of Henry Clay’s compromise in 1833, Student answered: d) all of the above Correct answer: d) all of the above Question 12: The "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign was in support of Student answered: c) Henry Clay. Correct answer: d) William Henry Harrison. Question 13: The first party in American presidential politics to hold a national convention was the Anti-Masonic party. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 14: At the Jefferson Day dinner in 1830, Andrew Jackson offered as a toast, Student answered: b) "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable." Correct answer: d) "Our Union—It must be preserved!" Question 15: The vice president during Andrew Jackson's first term as president was Student answered: a) Martin Van Buren. Correct answer: d) John C. Calhoun. Question 16: Native resistance to the Indian Removal Act came from the northern tribes. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 17: President Jackson claimed that nullification sought disunion, which was treason. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 18: Causes of the panic of 1837 included Student answered: c) the policies of the Bank of the United States. Correct answer: a) a financial depression in England. Question 19: John C. Calhoun’s theory of nullification provided Student answered: a) encouragement for secession from the Union. Correct answer: c) for nullification only by a specially elected state convention. Question 20: In the panic of 1837, Van Buren supported emergency government aid for the unemployed. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 21: The five "civilized tribes of Indians" in the South included all of the following except Student answered: b) Chickasaws Correct answer: c) Fox Question 22: Jackson and his supporters agreed with Jefferson’s vision for America. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 23: Peggy Eaton was controversial because her background offended Student answered: c) former president John Quincy Adams. Correct answer: b) John C. Calhoun’s wife. Question 24: Harrison won the presidential election of 1840 primarily on the basis of major issues that he raised in the campaign. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 25: Enemies of the Bank of the United States included Nicholas Biddle. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 26: Andrew Jackson’s action with regard to the Indians was to Student answered: a) oppose their removal to the West. Correct answer: b) refuse to enforce a Supreme Court decision in their favor. Question 27: To keep the government financially sound after the panic of 1837, Van Buren proposed Student answered: c) an independent Treasury. Correct answer: c) an independent Treasury. Question 28: The two main rivals within the Jackson administration were Martin Van Buren and Daniel Webster. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 29: In the Webster-Hayne debate, Robert Y. Hayne Student answered: b) supported a policy of using public land sales to raise revenue. Correct answer: a) viewed the Union as a compact of states. Question 30: The Whig coalition included all the following except Student answered: c) Catholic immigrants Correct answer: c) Catholic immigrants Question 1: A mechanical reaper to harvest grain was invented by Student answered: c) Eli Whitney. Correct answer: d) Cyrus Hall McCormick. Question 2: By 1860, the largest immigrant group in the United States was the Student answered: a) Germans. Correct answer: c) Irish. Question 3: By 1860, cotton accounted for more than half of American exports. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 4: From the 1830s to the 1860s, Student answered: d) the United States was more egalitarian than it had been in the late 1700s. Correct answer: b) distinctions among the socioeconomic classes grew more rigid, even though this was the "age of the common man." Question 5: The first telegraph message was transmitted between two cities in Student answered: a) 1794. Correct answer: d) 1844. Question 6: "Nativism" is hatred of other people on the basis of their skin color. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 7: As an immigrant ethnic group, the Irish faced discrimination for all of the following reasons, except: Student answered: a) They were Catholic. Correct answer: b) They came mostly as single males. Question 8: Railroads generally increased the cost of transportation. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 9: During the growth of internal improvement, the federal government Student answered: a) financed the construction of the Erie Canal. Correct answer: b) bought stock in and gave land grants to some transportation companies. Question 10: Factories appeared first in New England for all of the following reasons, except: Student answered: d) The profits from the region’s shipping trade provided the initial capital. Correct answer: c) Its slaves had little cotton to pick and could work in factories. Question 11: Before the Civil War, affluent homes might have such luxuries as indoor plumbing, sewing machines, and iceboxes. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 12: Immigration into the United States Student answered: b) increased most during the period from 1845 to 1854. Correct answer: b) increased most during the period from 1845 to 1854. Question 13: Through their sermons, Protestant ministers often incited mobs to attack Catholic institutions and churches. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 14: The Preemption Act and the Graduation Act made western lands available at low prices. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 15: The rise of professions resulted mainly from the Student answered: c) availability of higher education to women and free blacks. Correct answer: a) expansion of education and knowledge. Question 16: Samuel Slater’s textile mill in Rhode Island used small children as its main labor force. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 17: Developments in transportation usually occurred in the following order: Student answered: b) turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads. Correct answer: b) turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads. Question 18: By 1860, a majority of the nation’s population Student answered: c) was west of the Appalachian Mountains. Correct answer: c) was west of the Appalachian Mountains. Question 19: Perishable tea leaves spurred the development of fast-sailing ships known as clippers. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 20: In Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Supreme Court ruled all labor unions illegal. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 21: Irish immigrants were forced out of Ireland after over a million peasants died during the potato famine of the 1840s. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 22: By 1860, Catholicism was the largest religious denomination in the United States. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 23: The Lowell system depended on a large urban labor force. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 24: The steamboat helped make farming a commercial activity. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 25: Opened in 1825, the Erie Canal linked Student answered: b) the Great Lakes and Philadelphia. Correct answer: c) Buffalo and the Hudson River. Question 26: Most German immigrants in the 1850s were Jewish. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 27: Efforts to develop labor unions through 1840 were not successful at the national level. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 28: As a result of the invention of the cotton gin, Student answered: b) slavery continued to be profitable. Correct answer: b) slavery continued to be profitable. Question 29: In the antebellum period, railroads aided the expansion of Student answered: d) neither farming nor manufacturing, because railroads remained too expensive and dangerous. Correct answer: a) farming more than manufacturing. Question 30: The Know-Nothing Party was built on Student answered: d) all of the above Correct answer: a) nativism. Question 1: In the nineteenth century, Americans had the highest literacy rate in the Western world. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 2: The camp meeting was a new institution developed by the transcendentalists. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 3: Dorothea Lynde Dix was a leader in reforming the condition of Student answered: a) slaves. Correct answer: d) asylums for the mentally ill. Question 4: More of the North’s whites were illiterate than whites in any other part of the country. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 5: Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience" in reaction to Student answered: c) the Second Great Awakening. Correct answer: d) the Mexican War. Question 6: Prison reformers in the antebellum era expected prisons to Student answered: a) punish prisoners severely. Correct answer: b) rehabilitate prisoners. Question 7: The Unitarians emphasized the oneness and benevolence of God. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 8: Herman Melville’s background as a young man working on a whaling ship, and even taking part in a mutiny, is clearly reflected in his novels, such as Moby Dick. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 9: For many of the preachers in the Second Great Awakening, such as Lyman Beecher, individual conversions were not enough, and believers should try to "reform human society." Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 10: By 1850, the largest Protestant denomination in the nation consisted of Student answered: b) Methodists. Correct answer: b) Methodists. Question 11: The Oneida Community believed in complex marriage (in other words, that every man in the community and every women were married to each other). However, the local authorities arrested the leaders for practicing free love. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 12: The New Harmony community was based on Student answered: d) all of the above Correct answer: c) cooperative ownership. Question 13: The inventor of the detective story was Student answered: b) Edgar Allan Poe. Correct answer: b) Edgar Allan Poe. Question 14: The most widespread reform movement of the antebellum era probably was the Student answered: b) promotion of public education. Correct answer: a) temperance crusade. Question 15: The "burned-over district" was in western Massachusetts. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 16: While Mormons believed in polygamy, they never practiced it. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 17: The first organized meeting for women’s rights occurred at Student answered: a) Auburn, New York. Correct answer: d) Seneca Falls, New York. Question 18: The popular press expanded in the antebellum period primarily because of Student answered: a) the invention of the telegraph. Correct answer: c) advances in printing technology. Question 19: Deism was heavily influenced by Student answered: a) Timothy Dwight’s revivalism. Correct answer: b) Enlightenment rationalism. Question 20: Ann Lee (Mother Ann Lee) was a leading advocate of women’s suffrage. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 21: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer," said Student answered: a) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Correct answer: b) Henry David Thoreau. Question 22: All of the following statements about the Mormons are correct, except: Student answered: b) They believed in plural marriages. Correct answer: d) Their leader, Brigham Young, was murdered at Nauvoo. Question 23: Charles G. Finney Student answered: b) taught that regeneration was a change from selfishness to universalism. Correct answer: a) focused on group conversion decisions to avoid the loneliness of single acts. Question 24: "If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 25: The United States had fewer newspapers than any nation in the world. Student answered: b) False Correct answer: b) False Question 26: The women first admitted to Oberlin College were expected not to speak in classes and had to clean male students’ rooms. Student answered: b) False Correct answer: a) True Question 27: The organized movement for women’s rights had its origins in Student answered: c) transcendentalism. Correct answer: d) a split in the antislavery movement. Question 28: While higher education for women was not widely accepted, Vassar, the first women’s college with a truly academic curriculum and standards, opened in 1861. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 29: To promote social stability and equal opportunity, Horace Mann was a leader in promoting Student answered: c) public schools. Correct answer: c) public schools. Question 30: Walt Whitman’s work shocked many people as he wrote with an unusual frankness about sexuality. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 1: The United States had fewer newspapers than any nation in the world. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 2: The New Harmony community was based on Student answered: d) all of the above Correct answer: c) cooperative ownership. Question 3: The popular press expanded in the antebellum period primarily because of Student answered: b) better writers. Correct answer: c) advances in printing technology. Question 4: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer," said Student answered: a) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Correct answer: b) Henry David Thoreau. Question 5: The Oneida Community believed in complex marriage (in other words, that every man in the community and every women were married to each other). However, the local authorities arrested the leaders for practicing free love. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 6: The inventor of the detective story was Student answered: a) Herman Melville. Correct answer: b) Edgar Allan Poe. Question 7: The Unitarians emphasized the oneness and benevolence of God. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 8: While Mormons believed in polygamy, they never practiced it. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 9: The women first admitted to Oberlin College were expected not to speak in classes and had to clean male students’ rooms. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 10: More of the North’s whites were illiterate than whites in any other part of the country. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 11: The first organized meeting for women’s rights occurred at Student answered: b) New Harmony, Indiana. Correct answer: d) Seneca Falls, New York. Question 12: Walt Whitman’s work shocked many people as he wrote with an unusual frankness about sexuality. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 13: The camp meeting was a new institution developed by the transcendentalists. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 14: Herman Melville’s background as a young man working on a whaling ship, and even taking part in a mutiny, is clearly reflected in his novels, such as Moby Dick. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 15: The organized movement for women’s rights had its origins in Student answered: b) the lyceum movement. Correct answer: d) a split in the antislavery movement. Question 16: Charles G. Finney Student answered: b) taught that regeneration was a change from selfishness to universalism. Correct answer: a) focused on group conversion decisions to avoid the loneliness of single acts. Question 17: Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience" in reaction to Student answered: b) the coming of the Civil War. Correct answer: d) the Mexican War. Question 18: "If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 19: All of the following statements about the Mormons are correct, except: Student answered: c) They settled outside the boundary of the United States in the mid-1840s. Correct answer: d) Their leader, Brigham Young, was murdered at Nauvoo. Question 20: In the nineteenth century, Americans had the highest literacy rate in the Western world. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 21: The most widespread reform movement of the antebellum era probably was the Student answered: c) abolitionism. Correct answer: a) temperance crusade. Question 22: For many of the preachers in the Second Great Awakening, such as Lyman Beecher, individual conversions were not enough, and believers should try to "reform human society." Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 23: Deism was heavily influenced by Student answered: c) Transcendentalism. Correct answer: b) Enlightenment rationalism. Question 24: To promote social stability and equal opportunity, Horace Mann was a leader in promoting Student answered: c) public schools. Correct answer: c) public schools. Question 25: Prison reformers in the antebellum era expected prisons to Student answered: c) remove criminals permanently from society. Correct answer: b) rehabilitate prisoners. Question 26: Dorothea Lynde Dix was a leader in reforming the condition of Student answered: d) asylums for the mentally ill. Correct answer: d) asylums for the mentally ill. Question 27: By 1850, the largest Protestant denomination in the nation consisted of Student answered: d) Baptists. Correct answer: b) Methodists. Question 28: The "burned-over district" was in western Massachusetts. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 29: Ann Lee (Mother Ann Lee) was a leading advocate of women’s suffrage. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 30: While higher education for women was not widely accepted, Vassar, the first women’s college with a truly academic curriculum and standards, opened in 1861. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 1: Black abolitionists included Student answered: d) all of the above Correct answer: d) all of the above Question 2: Which of the following was a preferred job for a slave? Student answered: b) cotton field hand Correct answer: d) skilled worker Question 3: Between 1830 and 1860, the number of slaves in the South Student answered: d) increased by 25 percent. Correct answer: a) doubled. Question 4: William Lloyd Garrison changed the anti-slavery movement in 1831 by advocating the immediate abolition of slavery, which he regarded as a sin. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 5: Marriage was a common, if not a legal, institution among plantation slaves. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 6: By 1860, Protestant churches in the South defended slavery on all of the following grounds, except: Student answered: d) Saint Paul directed servants to obey their masters Correct answer: c) the "gag rule" endorsed it Question 7: All of the following factors made the South distinctive, except: Student answered: b) warmer weather suitable for growing cotton Correct answer: c) the presence of many European immigrants Question 8: The closing of the African slave trade in 1808 caused Student answered: d) an end to slavery. Correct answer: b) a rise in the price of slaves. Question 9: The Old Southwest included Texas and Louisiana, as well as part of Tennessee and Kentucky. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 10: Freed slaves from the United States formed the African nation of Liberia. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 11: Black slaves were unsuited for industrial work. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 12: Southern planters owned Student answered: a) nearly all the slaves. Correct answer: b) more than half of the slaves. Question 13: In the antebellum South, freed African Americans Student answered: b) were almost a third caste in cities like Charleston and New Orleans. Correct answer: b) were almost a third caste in cities like Charleston and New Orleans. Question 14: Yeoman farmers did not often own slaves, but most of them supported the institution of slavery. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 15: Most slaves accepted the Christian religion in place of their native beliefs. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 16: Sarah and Angelina Grimké were daughters of a South Carolina slaveholder. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 17: In 1860, the dollar value of slaves exceeded the value of all of America’s banks, railroads, and factories combined. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 18: The "lazy diseases" especially affected slaves. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 19: White slaveholders used slaves to grow cotton because it was a profitable labor force. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 20: Most southern whites owned at least one slave. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 21: The moral code of white southern males emphasized Student answered: a) Christianity’s golden rule. Correct answer: c) personal honor. Question 22: The increase in cotton production was mostly generated by Student answered: d) all of the above Correct answer: c) British demand for textiles. Question 23: The most common form of resistance to slavery by the slaves themselves was Student answered: b) escape by fleeing the slaveowner. Correct answer: c) malingering and sabotage. Question 24: A slave insurrection in which several whites were killed involved Student answered: d) Frederick Douglass in Maryland. Correct answer: a) Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831. Question 25: In the South, state laws prohibited free blacks from owning black slaves. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 26: While Sojourner Truth was a strong opponent of slavery, she did not support equality for women. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 27: The infant mortality rate for slaves was Student answered: b) equal to that for whites. Correct answer: d) twice as high as that for whites. Question 28: The so-called "gag rule" in the U.S. House of Representatives applied to Student answered: a) any discussion of slavery. Correct answer: b) consideration of abolitionist petitions. Question 29: George Fitzhugh’s unusual defense of slavery argued that Student answered: c) slavery was better for the slave than the northern system of labor was for industrial workers. Correct answer: c) slavery was better for the slave than the northern system of labor was for industrial workers. Question 30: Elijah P. Lovejoy was murdered by a mob of pro-abolition zealots. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 1: The Crittenden Compromise sought to Student answered: b) bar the expansion of slavery into the territories. Correct answer: c) guarantee slavery where it already existed. Question 2: In proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen A. Douglas was initially most concerned about Student answered: a) railroads. Correct answer: a) railroads. Question 3: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, became a huge success with its depiction of the horrors of the Fugitive Slave Act and the interstate slave trade. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 4: In the Pottawatomie Massacre, John Brown led a raid against pro-slavery settlers in Kansas. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 5: Although fewer than 200 slaves were returned to bondage during the first six years of the Fugitive Slave Act, it nonetheless widened and deepened the anti-slavery sentiment in the North. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 6: In 1850, Daniel Webster called on "a higher law than the Constitution" to demand the abolition of slavery. Student answered: b) False Correct answer: b) False Question 7: The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 was related to the Student answered: b) creation of a transcontinental railroad. Correct answer: b) creation of a transcontinental railroad. Question 8: In the election of 1860, Lincoln received only 39 percent of the popular vote. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 9: As a southern man with Union principles, Zachary Taylor Student answered: c) supported the extension of slavery in the West but not in the North. Correct answer: b) wanted immediate admission of California and New Mexico as free states. Question 10: The Ostend Manifesto was an offer by the United States to buy Cuba from Spain. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False Question 11: The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court involved Student answered: d) a slave who had been freed by his master who challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Correct answer: b) a slave suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory. Question 12: In the first six months of 1857, Buchanan dealt with Student answered: b) John Brown’s raid, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the Ostend Manifesto. Correct answer: a) Dred Scott, the Lecompton Constitution, and an economic panic. Question 13: Leading advocates of popular sovereignty included Student answered: a) Charles Sumner. Correct answer: c) Stephen A. Douglas. Question 14: The Freeport Doctrine was Douglas’s attempt to reconcile popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 15: The Republican party was committed to opposing any extension of slavery into the territories of the United States. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: a) True Question 16: Of the candidates in the 1860 presidential election, the one who tried to run a national campaign was: Student answered: c) Douglas. Correct answer: c) Douglas. Question 17: In 1859, John Brown led a pro-slavery raid at Harpers Ferry. Student answered: a) True Correct answer: b) False