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Quiz 14

Make sure your name, row and seat number appears on your Scantron. Mark each answer clearly with a No. 2 pencil. If you must erase, erase thoroughly so the grading machine does not pick up 2 answers. Due to the possibility of post-return alterations - no grade changes will be made after Scantrons are returned unless the professor or TA has initialed a problem. If you make an erasure and you are uncomfortable with the erasure smudge, please have the professor or TA initial the erasure in question for a post-return review. No initial, no review.Your Scantron must be turned in no later than the beginning of class on Tuesday. 

 

 

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Multiple Choice - Choose the answer that best fits the question........All questions are to be considered in the context of the textbook and lectures.

 

1.

What does the term "second party system" refer to?

 

a.

the two-party system of American politics from about 1790

b.

the party system from about 1830 to 1850

c.

the creation of a new third political party in the 1940s

d.

the political party not in power in government

e.

a total shift in American politics

 

2.

In 1854, Stephen Douglas proposed a bill that would set up territorial governments in Kansas and Nebraska on the basis of ________.

 

a.

the Compromise of 1850

b.

Free-Soil ideology

c.

congressional approval or disapproval of slavery

d.

presidential approval or disapproval of slavery

e.

popular sovereignty

 

3.

What law did Stephen Douglas need to repeal in order to gain southern support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

 

a.

the Wilmot Proviso

b.

the Missouri Compromise

c.

the Compromise of 1850

d.

the Bill of Rights

e.

the new Fugitive Slave Law

 

4.

What did the Ostend Manifesto of 1854 accuse the Pierce administration of doing?

 

a.

accepting bribes from southern plantation owners

b.

conspiring with Northerners to make the U.S. a "free soil wasteland"

c.

wanting to punish the working class through taxation

d.

wanting to create a "Caribbean slave empire" by annexing Cuba

e.

discriminating against recent immigrants through unfair voting laws

 

5.

Which political party wanted to extend the period of naturalization in order to weaken immigrant voter strength?

 

a.

Free-Soil party

b.

Whig party

c.

Know-Nothing party

d.

Democratic party

e.

Liberty party

 

6.

What was the main reason that many native-born Americans disliked Irish and German immigrants?

 

a.

because they were mostly communists

b.

because they were mostly illiterate

c.

because they were mostly Jewish

d.

because they were mostly Roman Catholic

e.

because they were mostly atheists

 

7.

A small-scale civil war over slavery broke out in the late 1850s between rival regimes of which state?

 

a.

Missouri

b.

Kansas

c.

South Carolina

d.

Tennessee

e.

Texas

 

8.

What action took place after proslavery adherents raided Lawrence, the free-state capital of Kansas, in 1856?

 

a.

John Brown and his followers killed five Native Americans in a land dispute.

b.

A mob of angry settlers attacked and killed five escaped slaves.

c.

An escaped slave killed a family of five white settlers.

d.

John Brown killed eight abolitionists in Kansas.

e.

John Brown and his followers killed five proslavery settlers in cold blood.

 

9.

During the presidential election of 1856, what did the Republican Party platform call for?

 

a.

popular sovereignty in the territories

b.

prohibition of slavery in the territories

c.

election of Fillmore, who opposed Buchanan

d.

secession from the United States

e.

election of Buchanan, who opposed Fillmore

 

10.

The tension between ________ became nearly insurmountable in the years between the elections of 1856 and 1860.

 

a.

blacks and whites

b.

Northerners and Southerners

c.

immigrants and native-born citizens

d.

farmers and factory owners

e.

Southerners and former slaves