In 1861, who was elected the president of the Confederate States of America?
● CORRECT: Jefferson Davis
2. A policy for favoring native-born Americans over immigrants is
● CORRECT: nativism.
3. The effects of the Supreme Court decision in Scott v. Sandford include all of the following
EXCEPT
● CORRECT: Congress gained more power to ban slavery.
4. What was significant about the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860?
● CORRECT: He was elected without any southern electoral votes.
5. The need for supplies at the federally occupied Fort Sumter led to
● CORRECT: the first battle of the Civil War.
6. The United States claimed which of the following as the official border between the United
States and Mexico?
● CORRECT: the Rio Grande
7. What was significant about the political parties in the election of 1860?
● CORRECT: The parties had divided and national parties no longer existed.
8. All American citizens were required to assist in the return of enslaved people to their
owners by the
● CORRECT: Fugitive Slave Act.
9. Which of the following books is considered to have increased the tensions between the
North and South on the issue of slavery?
● CORRECT: Uncle Tom's Cabin
10. What is considered the most important effect of the Mexican War?
● CORRECT: It brought the question of slavery to the forefront of American politics.
11. What event was feared by many Americans as a cause for the potential shift in the
balance of power within the U.S. government?
● CORRECT: annexation of Texas
12. Which of the following two political parties developed and grew in strength during the
mid-1850s?
● CORRECT: Republicans and the Know-Nothings
13. Free soilers were sent to Kansas to
● CORRECT: prevent slavery from being legalized in the region.
14. Which of the following had the greatest impact on the industrialization of the North?
● CORRECT: the railroad
15. The Compromise of 1850 included all of the following laws EXCEPT
● CORRECT: Slavery was abolished in Washington, D.C.
16. In addition to Texas, which two territories were ceded to the United States by the Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
● CORRECT: California and New Mexico
17. Which of the following were considered the Border States?
● CORRECT: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
18. What was the purpose of John Brown's attack on the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry?
● CORRECT: to seize weapons for use in a slave rebellion
19. Who defeated Santa Anna in the battle that brought the Mexican-American war to an
end?
CORRECT: General Winfield Scott
20. Which of the following was the first state to secede from the United States?
● CORRECT: South Carolina
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