Quiz

Chapter 18-23 Midterm Quiz

1. The Southern reaction to the Nat Turner revolt and the publication of The Liberator was to:

(A) begin to argue that slavery was a good institution.

(B) encourage the migration of slaves to the Middle West.

(C) agree to discuss the issue of abolition in Congress.

(D) invite Garrison to address the Virginia legislature on abolition.

2. All of the following were included in the Compromise of 1850 EXCEPT:

(A) The New Mexico and Utah territories are both granted popular sovereignty

(B) A stronger Fugitive Slave Act

(C) banned the slave trade in D.C

(D) California entered the Union as a slave state

3. POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, GEORGIA, 1848 AND 1852

Democratic Electors Whig Electors Webster Electors

1848 44,809 47,538 --------

1852 40,516 16,660 5,324

Using the table above, one might conclude that the most plausible explanation for the Georgia Democrats' victory in 1852 following their defeat in 1848 was that:

(A) many new voters increased the turnout in 1852, to the advantage of the Democrats.

(B) many voters abstained from voting in 1852, to the disadvantage of the Whigs.

(C) Webster, who had not run in 1848, drew sufficient votes from the Whigs to cost them the election of 1852.

(D) the Democrats, who had run a highly unpopular candidate in 1848, ran a highly popular candidate in 1852.

(E) the Democrats cast fraudulent ballots to increase their share of the votes in 1852.

4. Stephen A. Douglas is closely associated with all of the following EXCEPT:

(A) the presidential candidacy in 1860.

(B) the Freeport Doctrine.

(C) Popular Sovereignty.

(D) the Kansas Nebraska Act.

(E) the abolition of slavery throughout the United States.

5. Popular sovereignty was the policy of:

(A) banning slavery South of 36-30 in the Mexican acquired lands...