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Question #1

Southern defenders of slavery insisted the relationship between capital and labor was more humane under the slavery system than under the northern wage system.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #2

The _________________ was an elaborate network of secret routes helping slaves escape to safe refuges in the North.

A. underground dungeon

B. underground prison

C. underground railroad

D. underground tunnel

Question #3

The idea of Manifest Destiny

A. was fervently pursued by the newly created western states, allowing them to extend emancipation to slaves brought in from the "Old South".

B. was claimed by many Americans who believed the United States had a right to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.

C. depended on the goodwill of Native American tribes in the open plains allowing settlement beyond the Rockies.

D. incurred significant resistance from northeastern states who feared expansion into Canada would restrict their overseas Atlantic trading monopoly.

Question #4

Which of the following points was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

A. the buying and selling of slaves was abolished in the District of Columbia.

B. California was to be admitted to the Union as a free state.

C. remaining territory gained from Mexico would be organized for the strict introduction of slavery.

D. a Fugitive Slave Act was included, to apprehend runaway slaves.

Question #5

Southerners hailed John Brown as a martyr for his actions at Harper's Ferry.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #6

The armed conflict between slave holders and anti-slavery families in Kansas became know as

A. "busted Kansas"

B. "free soil only Kansas"

C. "bloody Kansas"

D. "blood alley Kansas"

Question #7

Texas remained an independent republic for almost a decade because

A. its annexation as a slave state would disrupt the increasingly precarious balance of political power in the United States.

B. the Texan government had aspirations of expanding their republic as far west as California and the Pacific.

C. the incoming president in 1845, James Polk, was concerned that if Texas were admitted to the Union it would upset the southern coalition in the House of Representatives.

D. many Texans had objected to breaking with Mexico in the first place, and strongly resisted any ties with the United States.

Question #8

Considered one of the most insightful analysis of American social and political practices of the early 19th century was

A. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

B. William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator.

C. Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

D. Charles Dickens' travel diary from his first visit to the United States.

Question #9

Because he had been taken to Illinois and Wisconsin territories where slavery was banned _______________ eventually sued for liberation on the ground of his residence on free soil.

A. Joshua Glover

B. Dred Scott

C. Edward Prigg

D. Jackey Wright

Question #10

The Whig Party, which straddled the question of slavery expansion, eventually sank to its death and was replaced by

A. the Constitutional Union Party

B. the Democrat Party

C. the Republican Party

D. the Free Soil Party

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