Chapter+16+In+Class+Quiz+Bowl+Fall+2011

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 * Chapter 16 In Class Quiz Bowl Fall 2011 **

// Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. //
 * Multiple Choice **

1. The Free- Soil party stance on slavery:
 * a. || was endorsed by John C. Calhoun ||
 * b. || attracted Abraham Lincoln into its ranks ||
 * c. || led to the political downfall of Henry Clay ||
 * d. || might appeal to some white farmers ||
 * e. || opposed the Wilmot Proviso ||


 * a. || was endorsed by John C. Calhoun ||
 * b. || attracted Abraham Lincoln into its ranks ||
 * c. || led to the political downfall of Henry Clay ||
 * d. || __** might appeal to some white farmers **__ ||
 * e. || opposed the Wilmot Proviso ||

2. President Zachary Taylor wanted to admit California as a state immediately because he:
 * a. || was anti- slavery, and California had voted on a free- state constitution ||
 * b. || was pro- slavery, and California had voted on a slave- state constitution ||
 * c. || wished to bypass the divisive issue of slavery in the territories ||
 * d. || was afraid Mexico would make new claims on the area since gold had been discovered there ||
 * e. || was persuaded to do so by his overwhelmingly northern cabinet ||


 * a. || was anti- slavery, and California had voted on a free- state constitution ||
 * b. || was pro- slavery, and California had voted on a slave- state constitution ||
 * __** c. **__ || __** wished to bypass the divisive issue of slavery in the territories **__ ||
 * d. || was afraid Mexico would make new claims on the area since gold had been discovered there ||
 * e. || was persuaded to do so by his overwhelmingly northern cabinet ||

3. During 1850 the United States faced the real danger of:
 * a. || a cholera epidemic ||
 * b. || disunion ||
 * c. || excessive foreign immigration ||
 * d. || war with Britain ||
 * e. || economic depression ||

3. During 1850 the United States faced the real danger of:
 * a. || a cholera epidemic ||
 * __** b. **__ || __** disunion **__ ||
 * c. || excessive foreign immigration ||
 * d. || war with Britain ||
 * e. || economic depression ||

4. During the great congressional debate over the Compromise of 1850:
 * a. || Calhoun endorsed all of Clay’s proposals ||
 * b. || Taylor promised to veto any new legislation ||
 * c. || Clay called for an end to sectional division ||
 * d. || Jefferson Davis emerged as a voice of moderation ||
 * e. || Webster made an impassioned argument for secession ||

4. During the great congressional debate over the Compromise of 1850:
 * a. || Calhoun endorsed all of Clay’s proposals ||
 * b. || Taylor promised to veto any new legislation ||
 * __** c. **__ || __** Clay called for an end to sectional division **__ ||
 * d. || Jefferson Davis emerged as a voice of moderation ||
 * e. || Webster made an impassioned argument for secession ||

5. The politician whose strategy enabled the passage of the Compromise of 1850 was:
 * a. || Millard Fillmore ||
 * b. || Sam Houston ||
 * c. || Daniel Webster ||
 * d. || William Seward ||
 * e. || Stephen Douglas ||

5. The politician whose strategy enabled the passage of the Compromise of 1850 was:
 * a. || Millard Fillmore ||
 * b. || Sam Houston ||
 * c. || Daniel Webster ||
 * d. || William Seward ||
 * __** e. **__ || __** Stephen Douglas **__ ||

6. The Compromise of 1850:
 * a. || gave Texas more territory ||
 * b. || admitted Utah as a slave state ||
 * c. || postponed California statehood ||
 * d. || ended slavery in Washington, D.C. ||
 * e. || strengthened the fugitive slave laws ||

7. The new Fugitive Slave Act:
 * a. || outraged abolitionists ||
 * b. || required the licensing of slave catchers ||
 * c. || guaranteed fugitive slaves a jury trial ||
 * d. || was soon repealed by Congress ||
 * e. || caused race riots in the North ||

8. The election of 1852:
 * a. || saw both major parties denounce the Compromise of 1850 ||
 * b. || resulted in a second term for Millard Fillmore ||
 * c. || saw the disappearance of the Free- Soil party ||
 * d. || was dominated by the current economic depression ||
 * e. || produced an unimpressive new president in Franklin Pierce ||

9. The United States concluded the Gadsden Purchase with Mexico in 1853:
 * a. || because of the area’s rich natural resources ||
 * b. || to acquire an additional port on the Pacific ||
 * c. || to take people’s minds off North- South division ||
 * d. || to increase cotton production in the West ||
 * e. || as a southern route for a transcontinental railroad ||

10. Passage of the Kansas- Nebraska Act was a victory for:
 * a. || abolitionists ||
 * b. || immigrant groups in America ||
 * c. || the concept of popular sovereignty ||
 * d. || southerners who wanted a transcontinental railroad to run west from New Orleans ||
 * e. || the preservation of the Union ||

11. In 1856 the Republicans:
 * a. || opposed the further spread of slavery ||
 * b. || nominated William Seward for president ||
 * c. || stood for states’ rights ||
 * d. || strongly condemned the nativist platform of the American party ||
 * e. || campaigned vigorously all over the country ||

12. The winner of the 1856 election was:
 * a. || John Frémont ||
 * ** b. ** || ** James Buchanan ** ||
 * c. || Franklin Pierce ||
 * d. || Stephen Douglas ||
 * e. || Millard Fillmore ||

13. Dred Scott sued for his freedom because:
 * a. || he had married a free woman ||
 * b. || his master had abused him ||
 * c. || he argued that slavery was unconstitutional ||
 * d. || ** he had lived in areas where slavery was forbidden ** ||
 * e. || he had always wanted to be free ||

14. President Buchanan:
 * a. || ** supported the Lecompton Constitution because he opposed the spread of slavery ** ||
 * b. || opposed the Lecompton Constitution because he favored the spread of slavery ||
 * c. || opposed the Lecompton Constitution because he was politically dependent upon northern congressmen ||
 * d. || in supporting the Lecompton Constitution, broke with Stephen Douglas ||
 * e. || in his typically indecisive way, took no stance on the Lecompton controversy ||

15. The Panic of 1857:
 * a. || was the worst depression in American history ||
 * b. || ended sectional bickering ||
 * c. || caused church attendance to decline ||
 * d. || was triggered by the violence in Kansas m,jj,,gjg, ||
 * e. || strengthened southern confidence in its cotton economy ||

16. John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry was intended to:
 * a. || start a civil war ||
 * b. || unify the Republican party ||
 * c. || provoke slave insurrections ||
 * d. || prove John Brown was God’s agent ||
 * e. || provoke a fight with the U.S. Army ||

17. John Brown targeted Harpers Ferry, Virginia, because:
 * a. || it had a large slave population ||
 * b. || it was the site of a federal arsenal ||
 * c. || it was an important railroad center ||
 * d. || many abolitionists lived in the area ||
 * e. || it had banks with large deposits ||

18. John Brown’s raid:
 * a. || ended bloodlessly ||
 * b. || succeeded ||
 * c. || was of minor importance ||
 * d. || made the South paranoid ||
 * e. || was condemned by abolitionists ||

19. The Republican party platform in 1860 supported all of the following EXCEPT:
 * a. || a transcontinental railroad ||
 * b. || a higher protective tariff ||
 * c. || no further extension of slavery ||
 * d. || John Brown’s raid ||
 * e. || free homesteads for western farmers ||

20. Lincoln won the election of 1860 by: = =
 * a. || appealing to fear ||
 * b. || sweeping the free states ||
 * c. || carrying the biggest states in both the North and South ||
 * d. || massive voter fraud ||
 * e. || changing his position on slavery ||