APUSH Deck 3 Flashcards
- Which of the following statements describes the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
d. The treaty purchased more than one-third of Mexico’s territory for a mere $15
million.
- Americans who lined up behind the free-soil cause in the late 1840s
c. declared that slavery threatened American republicanism by undermining family
farms.
- Why did Democratic presidential candidate Lewis Cass proposed the idea of squatter sovereignty in
1848?
b. Cass hoped the plan would maintain the unity of the contentious Democratic Party.
- Who of the following people is correctly matched to his position on the extension of slavery during the debate over the admission of California into the Union in 1850?
c. Lewis Cass—supported popular sovereignty to address the slavery issue
- Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?
b. Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act
- During the 1840s and 1850s, Roman Catholic churches in the United States were known for
a. providing community services and a sense of group identity for most Irish and many German immigrants.
- Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe pen her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was published in 1852?
d. Stowe sought to depict slavery as degrading, especially to slave women.
- Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
b. It sparked an unprecedented discussion about race and slavery in the United States and abroad.
- The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring
d. personal-liberty laws.
- Which of the following developments occurred during the 1852 presidential campaign?
b. Democrats nominated Franklin Pierce as a compromise candidate because he was a congenial man with southern sympathies.
- During the 1850s, proslavery American expansionists attempted to acquire which of the following regions?
c. Cuba
- Which of the following statements describes the American Party, or Know-Nothings, that emerged in the North in the 1850s?
a. The American Party originated in anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic societies of
the 1840s.
- How did the Franklin Pierce administration approach the settlement and organization of the Kansas Territory in 1854 and 1855?
b. Pierce officially favored the legitimacy of the proslavery legislature in Lecompton.
- The 1857 Dred Scott decision had which of the following consequences?
b. The decision persuaded many Republicans that the Supreme Court and President Buchanan were part of the “slave power” conspiracy.
- The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the
c. Kansas-Nebraska Act.
- In 1858, in response to Abraham Lincoln’s assertions about slavery in the territories, Stephen Douglas
d. asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it.
- Why did the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860?
b. He had already defeated Stephen A. Douglas in the senatorial election in 1858.
- Which statement describes why John Brown’s 1859 raid exacerbated the growing divide in the United States on the slavery issue?
a. To many slave owners, it showed the lengths to which abolitionists would go to
end slavery.
- Which of the following aided the new Republican Party to win the presidency in 1860?
c. The split in the Democratic Party into northern and southern factions
- The movement toward secession in the winter of 1860–1861 proceeded the most rapidly in the
c. Deep South.
