APUSH Chapters 12 & 13 Practice Questions for Test Friday 11/8/2019

1) The population of the United States before 1840 was comprised of which of the following main ethnic
groups?
A) Europeans, Asian, and American Indians
B) Africans, American Indians, and Asians
C) Latin Americans, Europeans, and Africans
D) Europeans, Africans, and American Indians

2) The American reception of the Chinese immigrants in California can best be described as
A) indifferent at all stages.
B) resentment at first, but a growing acceptance as their value as laborers grew.
C) eager acceptance at first, but growing resentment as their numbers grew.
D) no change from early arrival to the expansion of their population in the state.

3) The growing volume of Irish and German immigrant arrivals into the United States resulted in which
of the following?
A) growing acceptance by white Americans
B) general indifference
C) no significant change in the attitudes of white Americans
D) the significant increase in prejudice against immigrants

4) Moderate American reformers reacted to the Know-Nothing challenge to immigration by

A) accepting their attacks and anti-immigration policies.
B) trying to change the opinions of the Know-Nothing party.
C) trying to "Americanize" immigrants through education.
D) ignoring their threat.

5) The Land Commission that the United States created to handle the distribution of land in California
after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
A) generally respected prior Mexican land grants.
B) did not have a major impact on changing land ownership in California after 1848.
C) ruled most Mexican land grants null and void, robbing thousands of Mexican families of their land.
D) did not favor either Mexican nor Americans in distributing land.

6) The most important argument that southern defenders of slavery used against northern abolitionists was
A) Africans willingly accepted slavery.
B) the north was poor because there was no slavery in that region.
C) slave life was better than the lives of northern industrial workers.
D) slavery was not that widespread in the south.

7) The normal way for most slaves to express discontent was

A) political protest.
B) open, armed rebellion.
C) passive resistance.
D) participation in conspiracies.
8) The founder of the radical anti-slavery movement was
A) William Lloyd Garrison.
B) William Whipper.
C) Frederick Douglass.
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

9) The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

A) required all citizens to help return escaped slaves to their owners.
B) forced foreign nations to return escaped slaves to the United States.
C) forced escaped slaves to turn themselves into authorities.
D) failed to anger northern abolitionists.

10) An important consequence of the abolitionist movement was

A) the American Colonization Society.
B) the development of the women's rights movement.
C) the birth of socialism in America.
D) the death of the states rights movement.

11) The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848

A) generated much support in the United States for women's rights.
B) spurred a general indifference in the United States for women's rights.
C) had no impact on the nation.
D) generated mostly negative attention to the movement.

12) Frances Wright argued that

A) marriage was a barrier to women's rights.
B) marriage played no role in either furthering or hindering women's rights.
C) women should not be involved with the abolitionist movement.
D) women should not obtain an education.

13) Sojourner Truth was concerned that

A) the abolitionist movement was not important to the United States.
B) white American women were causing unnecessary divisions in the women's movement.
C) alcohol was more devastating to the United States than slavery.
D) discrimination was more apparent in regions than along gender lines.

14) The Kansas-Nebraska Act

A) became the defining issue in the 1856 Congressional elections.
B) led to the formation of the Republican Party.
C) explicitly strengthened the Missouri Compromise.
D) united moderate and radical abolitionists.

15) The enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act

A) resulted in a firestorm unexpected by its proponents.
B) resulted in organized demonstrations against the law by members of the Whig party.
C) resulted in new personal liberty laws.
D) repealed an 1842 Supreme Court law on the legal status of runaway slaves.
16) Daniel Webster's speech supporting the Compromise of 1850
A) enhanced his reputation as a moderate abolitionist.
B) enhanced his reputation as a Great Compromiser.
C) destroyed his reputation as a political centrist.
D) destroyed his reputation as an abolitionist.

17) After delivering his "Crime against Kansas" speech in the Senate, Senator Charles Sumner was beaten
by Representative
A) Brooks Calhoun.
B) Lynn Trumbull.
C) Preston Brooks.
D) John Brooks.

18) Kansas became a state

A) as a result of the Topeka Constitution.
B) months before the beginning of the Civil War.
C) as a result of the Lecompton Constitution.
D) at the end of the Civil War as a free state.

19) After the Dred Scott decision, many Americans concluded that slavery
A) must be resolved by a Constitutional amendment.
B) must be limited to only territories where it currently existed.
C) was indeed a peculiar institution.
D) had to be banned everywhere or nowhere.

20) The Republican Party leader who threatened to undo the Dred Scott decision if elected President of
the United States was
A) Samuel Chase.
B) Abraham Lincoln.
C) William Seward.
D) Edwin Stanton.

21) John Brown was

A) a free state farmer from Kansas.
B) an antislavery preacher from Missouri.
C) an abolitionist from Kansas.
D) an abolitionist from Massachusetts.

22) The Panic of 1857 was

A) more severe in the South than in the North.
B) affected both North and South equally.
C) more severe in the North than in the South.
D) an effect of the platforms of the Democratic and Republican parties.

23) Lincoln's famous quotation, "A house divided against itself cannot stand," was taken from
A) Caesar's address to the Roman Senate.
B) the Bible.
C) a speech given by John Freemont.
D) words he himself had written when he was a member of Congress.
24) In the aftermath of John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry
A) public opinion condemned the raid.
B) public opinion shifted from mainly condemnation to some level of support.
C) Northerners called for a moratorium on the issue of slavery.
D) Southerners called for a Civil War.

25) As a result of the debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln

A) gained nationwide support for his radical abolitionist views on slavery.
B) won the governorship in Illinois.
C) remained a viable candidate for a future senate seat in Illinois.
D) gained nationwide support for his political views.

26) During the debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln was most concerned about
A) the Fugitive Slave Act.
B) racial equality.
C) the territorial expansion of slavery.
D) his presidential aspirations.

27) Most historians agree that as it relates to causes of the Civil War
A) economic issues were the most significant factors.
B) arguments over slavery were the most significant factors.
C) both economic issues and arguments over slavery were significant factors.
D) neither economic issues or arguments over slavery were significant factors.

28) James Buchanan's presidential mandate appeared to be

A) extending slavery in the territories.
B) prohibiting the extension of slavery.
C) reviving the Gadsden Purchase.
D) avoiding the issue of slavery.

29) The Crittenden Compromise was rejected by Lincoln because

A) it expanded the Fugitive Slave Act as one of its key provisions.
B) it rejected popular sovereignty.
C) it protected slavery in the New Mexico Territory and California.
D) it was supported by President Buchanan.

30) The border state Lincoln felt was most crucial to the Union war strategy was
A) Virginia.
B) Maryland.
C) Kentucky.
D) Delaware.