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APUSH Ch 18
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Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Why was the Free-Soil Party created?
A
Created to prevent slavery in the Western Territories
B
Created to help California become a free state
C
Created to support the Homestead Act
D
Created to protect pro-slavery rights
2) What effect did hydraulic mining have on the environment?
A
No effect, natural erosion technique
B
Extremely harmful, caused disastrous erosion of hillsides that is still recovering today
C
No effect, used subsurface water to dissolve gold and bring it to the surface
D
Extremely harmful, introduced toxic chemicals to the soil such as mercury
3) Where did the South hold most political power in the late 1840’s and early 1850’s?
A
Presidency
B
Presidency and Senate
C
Presidency and House
D
Presidency and Supreme Court
4) What was the major concession to the South in the Compromise of 1850?
A
Slavery abolished in Washington, DC
B
Land in the Caribbean was seceded to the South
C
Kansas became a slave state
D
Fugitive Slave Laws
5) What was the effect of the Election of 1852?
A
Whig party collapses
B
Collapse of national political parties
C
all
D
Parties aligned by section
6) What did the Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty do?
A
Formed an alliance between the US and Great Britain allowing them to intervene in South America
B
Created a slave state in Panama
C
Reinforced Latin American feeling about the US by granting the US right to intervene in Central America
D
Created the Suez Canal
7) What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase?
A
To provide a right-of-way for a railroad to California
B
To create more slave states in the Southwest, reinforcing the Missouri Compromise
C
To provide access to the Sea of Cortes
D
To create a new wagon trail to California
8) Why did Douglas support the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A
Wanted to stop the Gadsden Purchase in order to profit from a railroad terminus at Houston
B
Supported slavery in land agreed upon to be organized as free states
C
To organize the Midwest territories allowing a railroad to pass through to Chicago
D
Assumed Kansas would vote to be a free state ending the spread of slavery
9) Why did the North feel betrayed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A
Supported the creation of two new states
B
Created purely to help big business…namely railroads
C
Violated the Compromise of 1850
D
Violated the Missouri Compromise
10) What was the Republican Party platform
A
Pro-slave, supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act
B
Abolitionist, demanded repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
C
Pro-slave, demanded repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D
Abolitionist, supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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