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SJA APUSH PERIOD 5 EXAM QUESTIONSAND ANSWERS
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?
a. its call for immediate emancipation of all slaves
b. its opposition to the Dred Scott decision
c. its desire to dissolve the Missouri Compromise
d. its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
e. its move to annex Cuba for the expansion of American slavery -
ANSWER d. its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:
a. led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials
b. included no slaves, because Mexico had banned slavery in its territory
c. was in communities whose American-born residents were called
Tejanos by their Mexican neighbours
d. took place without approval from the Mexican government
e. did not exceed the Mexican population there until the United States
annexed Texas in 1845 - ANSWER a. led Stephen Austin to demand
more autonomy from Mexican officials
In general, Catholics supported the temperance movement. - ANSWER
False
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in
Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia,
in 1859?
a. Joseph Lane
b. Henry Ward Beecher
c. John Brown
d. Robert E. Lee
e. Frederick Douglass - ANSWER c. John Brown
From 1848 to 1860, most of the railroad construction was in what
region?
a. Midwest
, b. West Coast
c. Southeast
d. Northeast
e. Southwest - ANSWER a. Midwest
When Democrats demanded the "reannexation" of Texas in 1844, they:
a. implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through
the Louisiana Purchase
b. were seeking to take the slavery issue out of the presidential
campaign
c. neglected to say anything about the status of Oregon
d. were consciously appealing to northern Whigs
e. realized their stand would not be very popular in the South - ANSWER
a. implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through
the Louisiana Purchase
In California after the Mexican-American war, landowners of Spanish
heritage had to adjust to a new identity as if they were immigrants. -
ANSWER True
Nativism emerged as a major political movement in 1854, with the
sudden appearance of the Liberty Party. - ANSWER False
The Fugitive Slave Act provided for the return of runaway slaves to their
owners. - ANSWER True
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?
a. President John Tyler's antislavery policies caused a major proslavery
backlash led by John C. Calhoun
b. As the 1848 constitutional deadline for ending the African slave trade
drew near, Americans became obsessed with slavery
c. The Methodist Church, the nation's largest denomination, called on all
its members to free their slaves
d. Members of the abolitionist Republican Party, formed in 1844, insisted
on debating slavery
e. Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should
be free or slave - ANSWER e. Territorial expansion raised the question
of whether new lands should be free or slave
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