Question 1 (1 point)When “Fifty-four forty or fight” did not result in gaining all of the Pacific

Northwest, who most likely would have been the angriest?

Question 1 options:

	southern Democrats
	northern Democrats
	Liberty Party members
	northern Whigs
	southern Whigs

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Question 2 (1 point)

The opening of Japan to United States trade led to what?

Question 2 options:

	Japan created its own minstrel shows.
	Other nations wanted to carve up Japanese territory.
	Japan became a modernized military power.
	The United States became much less interested in China.
	Japan attacked Russia.

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Question 3 (1 point)

Why was the extension of slavery significant politically?

Question 3 options:

	It determined whether slavery should end everywhere immediately.
	Both the North and South wanted to control the Senate.
	It led to the United States gaining more territory in the Caribbean.
	It gave the abolitionists control of northern politics.
	The government mandated that the Methodist church had to be split into two groups.

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Question 4 (1 point)

Why were the Know-Nothings unable to curb the political influence of Irish immigrants?

Question 4 options:

	The pope interceded on the behalf of Catholics in America.
	Southern slaveholders protected the rights of immigrants.
	The Irish used their strong economic clout to gain political influence.
	After arriving in the United States, most of the Irish converted to Protestant faiths.
	Voting rights were being determined by race.

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Question 5 (1 point)

What distinguished John Brown from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass?

Question 5 options:

	Brown only used religion.
	Brown wanted to send ex-slaves abroad.
	Brown emphasized violence in freeing slaves.
	Brown wanted slaves to be freed immediately.
	Brown hoped to see ex-slaves gain equal rights.

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Question 6 (1 point)

By casting their ballots for the Constitutional Unionist candidate John Bell in the 1860 election, what did people in Virginia and Kentucky fear?

Question 6 options:

	These voters were afraid that the South would not secede.
	These voters feared northern industrialists controlled too much of the economy.
	The voters did not want South Carolina to take the lead in creating a new government.
	The voters worried that an impending civil war would lead to war being fought in their respective states.
	The voters worried that if Stephen Douglas was elected, slavery would be eliminated immediately.

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Question 7 (1 point)

In regards to Fort Sumter, analyze the maneuvering of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Who was superior, Davis or Lincoln?

Question 7 options:

	Davis gained the most essential fort in the South.
	Lincoln was too weak-willed to be president.
	Lincoln failed to walk the tightrope.
	Lincoln made the South look like the aggressor.
	Davis was able to prevent a northern invasion of the Confederacy for two years.

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Question 8 (1 point)

During the 1850s, 80 percent of the world’s gold came from two places that experienced gold rushes at about the same time, California and:

Question 8 options:

	Canada.
	Argentina.
	South Africa.
	Australia.
	Congo.

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Question 9 (1 point)

Which American naval officer negotiated a treaty that opened two Japanese ports to U.S. ships in 1854?

Question 9 options:

	Oliver H. Perry
	John Paul Jones
	Alfred Mahan
	Chester Nimitz
	Matthew Perry

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Question 10 (1 point)

The Free Soil Party:

Question 10 options:

	demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
	cost Henry Clay the presidency by siphoning off votes from him in New York.
	was powerful enough to convince James Polk not to seek reelection.
	strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso but agreed to let it pass as part of a compromise.
	nominated Zachary Taylor for president.

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Question 11 (1 point)

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

Question 11 options:

	California would enter the Union as a free state.
	The slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C.
	The Oregon Territory would be created.
	A tougher fugitive slave law would be enacted.
	Territories created from the Mexican Cession would vote on whether to allow slavery.

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Question 12 (1 point)

Stephen Douglas’s motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:

Question 12 options:

	boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
	spread slavery.
	win the position of speaker of the House of Representatives.
	pacify southerners who strongly supported the idea of popular sovereignty.
	help Franklin Pierce win a second term as president.

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Question 13 (1 point)

From 1848 to 1860, most of the railroad construction was in which region?

Question 13 options:

	Northeast
	Southeast
	Southwest
	Midwest
	West Coast

 

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