Which one of the following is NOT related to the antiforeign, anti-Catholic sentiment that raged in the early 1850s? A) Young America B) nativists C) Know Nothings D) American party ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Like settlers in neighboring Virginia, settlers in Maryland A) were denied access to land patents. B) were granted some local self-government in a representative assembly. C) devoted their energies to trading cattle and Indian slaves to the West Indies. D) left England to escape religious persecution. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
American acquisition of Cuba was the goal of the A) northern free soilers. B) American party. C) Gadsden Purchase. D) Ostend Manifesto. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Stephen A. Douglas’s motives for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Bill included all of the following EXCEPT A) he wanted to secure a right-of-way for a Chicago-to-Pacific Coast transcontinental railroad. B) he felt geography and climate would prevent slavery from ever extending into the Kansas-Nebraska Territory. C) he believed that popular sovereignty was not a workable solution […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was an immediate consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? A) reunification of the Democratic Party B) organization of the Republican Party C) revival of the Whig Party D) All of the above. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
At Plymouth Plantation, voting for governing officials was restricted to A) employees of Thomas Weston. B) church members. C) investors in the Virginia Company. D) property owners. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Who was the abolitionist senator who was severely beaten when he condemned the South for the “Crime Against Kansas”? A) Roger Taney B) Preston Brooks C) James Buchanan D) Charles Sumner ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Republican candidate John C. Fremont’s only stated position in the 1856 presidential campaign was that A) Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a free state. B) the Fugitive Slave Law should be repealed. C) slavery should be abolished as soon as possible. D) popular sovereignty should decide the fate of slavery in the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Identify several principles important to Thomas Jefferson. How were these principles implemented when Jefferson became president? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: economy in government (reduced debt); limited government (cut military spending, cut taxes); democratic simplicity (informality in White House); yeoman farmer republic (reduced land prices, Louisiana Purchase), etc.
Date: September 9th, 2020
Describe the major assumption of Jefferson’s and Madison’s foreign policies from 1800 to 1812. Show how the two presidents implemented these assumptions during their administrations. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Jefferson and Madison assumed that Europeans needed American trade; therefore, the denial of this trade could be an effective diplomatic tool to […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
