Chapter 6 Quiz

A  the Republican Party

B  the Free Soil Party

C  the Democrat Party

D  the Constitutional Union Party

A  Joshua Glover

B  Jackey Wright

C  Dred Scott

D  Edward Prigg

A  William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator.

B  Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

C  Charles Dickens’ travel diary from his first visit to the United States.

D  Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.

A  the Texan government had aspirations of expanding their republic as far west as California and the Pacific.

B  its annexation as a slave state would disrupt the increasingly precarious balance of political power in the United States.

C  many Texans had objected to breaking with Mexico in the first place, and strongly resisted any ties with the United States.

D  the incoming president in 1845, James Polk, was concerned that if Texas were admitted to the Union it would upset the southern coalition in the House of Representatives.

A  “busted Kansas”

B  “bloody Kansas”

C  “free soil only Kansas”

D  “blood alley Kansas”

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  remaining territory gained from Mexico would be organized for the strict introduction of slavery.

B  a Fugitive Slave Act was included, to apprehend runaway slaves.

C  the buying and selling of slaves was abolished in the District of Columbia.

D  California was to be admitted to the Union as a free state.

A  was claimed by many Americans who believed the United States had a right to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.

B  was fervently pursued by the newly created western states, allowing them to extend emancipation to slaves brought in from the “Old South”.

C  incurred significant resistance from northeastern states who feared expansion into Canada would restrict their overseas Atlantic trading monopoly.

D  depended on the goodwill of Native American tribes in the open plains allowing settlement beyond the Rockies.

A  underground prison

B  underground dungeon

C  underground railroad

D  underground tunnel

A  FALSE

B  TRUE