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Ch. 16-18 Take Home Test
Ch. 16.
51. As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin
[A] fewer slaves were needed on the plantations.
[B] short-staple cotton lost popularity.
[C] slavery was reinvigorated.
[D] Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery.
52. Plantation agriculture
[A] led to a slow return on investments.
[B] remained diverse until the Civil War.
[C] was economically unstable and wasteful.
[D] discouraged immigration to the West.
53. Most white southerners were
[A] planter aristocrats.
[B] small slaveowners.
[C] merchants and artisans.
[D] nonslaveowning subsistence farmers.
54. Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as
[A] very racist.
[B] politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.
[C] disliking the race but liking individual blacks.
[D] supporting their right to full citizenship.
55. Perhaps the slave’s greatest horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, was
[A] the forced separation of slave families.
[B] slaveowners’ frequent use of the whip.
[C] the breeding of slaves.
[D] having to do the most dangerous work on the plantation.
56. William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to
[A] shipping freed blacks back to Africa.
[B] outlawing the slave trade.
[C] preventing the expansion of slavery beyond the South.
[D] the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.
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Ch. 17.
57. One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation
[A] might give more power to the supporters of slavery.
[B] was not supported by the people of Texas.
[C] offered little of value to America.
[D] would lead to tensions and possible war with Mexico.
58. Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the
[A] rich soil of the Willamette River Valley.
[B] expectation of fighting British troops.
[C] potential profits in the fur trade.
[D] discovery of gold and silver in the Cascade Mountains.
59. President Polk’s claim that “American blood [had been shed] on American soil” referred
to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near
[A] San Francisco.
[B] the Nueces River.
[C] the Rio Grande.
[D] Santa Fe.
60. During the Mexican War, the Polk administration was called upon several times to
respond to “spot” resolutions indicating where American blood had been shed to
provoke the war. The resolutions were frequently introduced by
[A] Henry Clay.
[B] Abraham Lincoln.
[C] Robert Walker.
[D] David Wilmot.
61. When the war with Mexico began, President James K. Polk
[A] advocated taking all of Mexico.
[B] found that he could trust dethroned Mexican dictator Santa Anna.
[C] hoped to fight a limited war, ending with the conquest of California.
[D] supported a large-scale conflict.
62. The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War, included
[A] a guarantee of the rights of Mexicans living in New Mexico.
[B] United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico.
[C] United States annexation of Texas.
[D] the banning of slavery from all territory ceded to the United States.
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63. The people most opposed to President James K. Polk’s expansionist program were
[A] western Democrats.
[B] antislavery forces.
[C] Senate Democrats.
[D] proslavery Whigs.
64. The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that
[A] Mexican territory would not be annexed to the United States.
[B] the United States should annex all of Mexico.
[C] slavery in the territories would be determined by democratic vote.
[D] slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States.
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65. In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, earlynineteenth-century politicians
[A] decided to ban slavery from all United States territories.
[B] banished abolitionists from membership in either national party.
[C] decided to allow slavery into all US Territories.
[D] avoided public discussion of slavery.
66. The United States’ victory in the Mexican War resulted in
[A] possible split in the Whig and Democrat parties over slavery.
[B] a rush of settlers to new American territory in California.
[C] the cession by Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the United States.
[D] all of these.
67. The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have
[A] required California to enter the Union as a slave state.
[B] overturned the Fugitive Slave Law.
[C] prevented the taking of any territory from Mexico.
[D] prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War.
68. According to the principle of “popular sovereignty,” the question of slavery in the territories
would be determined by
[A] the vote of the people in any given territory.
[B] a Supreme Court decision.
[C] congressional legislation.
[D] the most popular national leaders.
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69. In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah
territories was
[A] to be decided by popular sovereignty.
[B] protected by federal law.
[C] to be decided by the Mormon Church.
[D] to be banned.
70. The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision
concerning
[A] slavery in the District of Columbia.
[B] the new Fugitive Slave Law.
[C] settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute.
[D] continuation of the interstate slave trade.
71. The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over
[A] the nomination of General Winfield Scott
[B] slavery.
[C] homestead laws.
[D] the transcontinental railroad route.
72. The man who opened Japan to the United States was
[A] Clayton Bulwer.
[B] Matthew Perry.
[C] Franklin Pierce.
[D] William Walker.
73. Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new Pacific Coast territories
from breaking away from United States control was
[A] to construct a transcontinental railroad.
[B] to establish large naval bases in San Diego and Seattle.
[C] to build a canal across Central America.
[D] to allow slavery in these areas.
74. Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory
be decided by
[A] admitting California, Kansas, and Nebraska to the Union as free states.
[B] making Kansas a free territory and Nebraska a slave territory.
[C] the Supreme Court.
[D] popular sovereignty.
75. Stephen A. Douglas’s plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme
required repeal of the
[A] Missouri Compromise.
[B] Compromise of 1850.
[C] Northwest Ordinance.
[D] Wilmot Proviso.
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AP Test Style Multiple Choice
The following questions refer to the map below.
76. Which period is considered the peak of manifest destiny?
(A) 1776 to 1783
(B) 1803 to 1810
(C) 1819 to 1841
(D) 1842 to 1853
77. One attempt to prevent slavery in the territories was the
(A) Webster-Ashburton Agreement.
(B) Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.
(C) Ostend Manifesto.
(D) Wilmot Proviso.
78. By going to war with Mexico, the United States gained the territory labeled as the
(A) Louisiana Purchase.
(B) Oregon Country.
(C) Annexation of Texas.
(D) Mexican Cession.
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The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"I have made known my decision upon the Mexican Treaty.... I would submit it [to] the Senate
for ratification ...
"The treaty conformed on the main questions of limits and boundary to the instructions given ...
though, if the treaty was now to be made, I should demand more territory....
"I look, too, to the consequences of its rejection. A [Whig] majority of one branch of Congress
[the House] is opposed to my administration. . . . And if I were now to reject a treaty made upon
my own terms ... the probability is that Congress would not grant either men or money to
prosecute the war.... I might at last be compelled to withdraw thorn [the army], and thus lose the
two provinces of New Mexico and Upper California, which were ceded to the United States by
this treaty."
—President James K. Polk, Diary, 21st February, 1848
79. According to this diary entry, President Polk felt pressure to accept the treaty with Mexico
for which of the following reasons?
(A) He was eager to expand into New Mexico and Upper California
(B) He believed the Whigs would not support more aggressive expansion
(C) He wanted to support a treaty proposed by the Whigs
(D) He feared expanding the war with Mexico if the treaty was rejected
80. President Polk was motivated to reject the treaty with Mexico because of which of the
following?
(A) Many Southerners wanted the United States to get larger gains in territory
(B) Many Whigs opposed the treaty and were willing to continue the war
(C) The United States was in a dispute with Great Britain over the Canadian border
(D) The treaty called for the United States to give up the territories known as Upper California
and New Mexico
The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"It being desirable for the peace, concord, and harmony of the Union of these states to settle and
adjust amicably all existing questions of controversy between them arising out of the institution
of slavery upon a fair, equitable, and just basis....
"We are told now ... that the Union is threatened with subversion and destruction ... If the Union
is to be dissolved for any existing causes, it will be dissolved because slavery is interdicted or not
allowed to be introduced into the ceded territories, because slavery is threatened to be abolished
in the District of Columbia, and because fugitive slaves are not returned ... to their masters....
"I am for staying within the Union and fighting for my rights."
—Henry Clay, Resolution on the Compromise of 1850, 1850
81. To which politicians is Clay directing the last line of the excerpt?
(A) Southerners who were threatening to secede
(B) Senators such as Daniel Webster who rejected any compromise
(C) Advocates of popular sovereignty
(D) The president, Zachary Taylor
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82. Which of the following parts of the Compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the
South?
(A) Admitting California as a free state
(B) Passing a new Fugitive Slave Law
(C) Ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
(D) Using popular sovereignty in new territories
83. Which of the following parts of the Compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the
North?
(A) Admitting California as a free state
(B) Passing a new Fugitive Slave Law
(C) Ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
(D) Using popular sovereignty in new territories
The following questions refer to the excerpt below
“I told him I thought that every man, when he was free, could have his rights and protect
[himself]. He said, “The colored people could never protect themselves among the white people.
So you had all better stay with the white people who raised you and make contracts with them to
work by the year for one-fifth of all you make. And next year you can get one-third, and the next
you maybe work for one-half you make. We have contracts for you all to sign, to work for onetwentieth you make from now until the crop is ended, and then next year you all can make
another crop and get more of it.””
Senate Report 693, 46th Congress, 2nd Session, 1880
84. According to the excerpt above, many freed blacks became
A) tenant farmers.
B) plantation farmers.
C) crop lien farmers.
D) sharecroppers.
85. To ensure that African Americans in the South would adhere to rules and laws of work,
A) each Southern state adopted their own black codes of work.
B) schools were established to teach these freedmen about the rules and laws.
C) a letter was sent to each worker notifying them of the rules and laws.
D) assembly meetings were held in each of the local towns informing the freedmen of
the rules and laws.
86. The farming conditions, as described in the excerpt,
A) returned Southern cotton to “king” again.
B) created an indebtedness of the farmer to the landlord that lasted for several years.
C) provided the need for workers to pick an abundant crop of cotton.
D) gave the farmer choices as to whom to work for.
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