Chapter_18_Renewing_the_Sectional_Struggle_1848_1854 (1)
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Chapter_18_Renewing_the_Sectional_Struggle_1848_1854 (1)

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

 

50. The Free Soilers were most concerned that one of the adverse long-term effects of extending slavery in the western territories would

  a. be an indefinite delay in the admission of western territories as states in the union.
  b. cause costly wage labor to wither away and, thus, close the opportunity for the American worker to own property.
  c. enable, through enhanced profits, and permit small farmers to purchase more land.
  d. be to undermine the moral case against slavery.
  e. None of these choices are correct.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Political Triumphs for General Taylor

 

51. The event that threatened to destroy the longstanding balance of free and slave states in the United States Senate was the

  a. passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  b. potential admission of Oregon as a free state.
  c. attempt to acquire Cuba as a slave state.
  d. proposed building of a southern transcontinental railroad.
  e. discovery of gold in California and its bid for statehood.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   “Californy Gold”
Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad

 

52. With the discovery of gold near Sutter’s Mill, California, in 1848, all of the following took place except

  a. miners and adventurers from around the world came to California.
  b. most of the first wave of miners struck it rich in California with lucrative, easy, and plentiful discoveries of gold.
  c. many travelers to California faced illness and deadly fevers.
  d. the most reliable profits in the California gold rush were made by those who provided personal services, such as laundry services and clothing, for the miners.
  e. crime soared in California due to the large number of lawless men and virtueless women who arrived there.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   “Californy Gold”

 

53. Of those people going to California during the gold rush

  a. the majority had come from foreign nations.
  b. slaves constituted a sizable minority.
  c. the majority gained considerable financial rewards.
  d. most were interested in free-soil farming.
  e. a distressingly high proportion were lawless men.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   “Californy Gold”

 

54. The South grew increasingly worried about the future of slavery because

  a. the Wilmot Proposal was likely to be revived and enacted by Congress after the congressional elections of 1850.
  b. the admission of California might permanently tip the political balance against them.
  c. the Supreme Court was increasingly likely to issue a decision abolishing slavery everywhere in the United States.
  d. President Taylor was the first president openly critical of slavery.
  e. popular sovereignty would almost certainly prevent the spread of slavery.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad

 

55. Which of the following was not among the issues that concerned southerners in 1849-1850?

  a. The political balance in the Senate might tip against them.
  b. The admission of California as a free state might set a precedent for Utah and New Mexico.
  c. Northern abolitionists were agitating against slavery in the District of Columbia.
  d. The loss of runaway slaves through the Underground Railroad.
  e. There was a growing chance that a constitutional amendment would abolish slavery.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad

 

56. The issue of runaway slaves was important to most southerners because

  a. the South was losing a significant and irreplaceable portion of its labor force.
  b. the overwhelming success of the Underground Railroad posed critical and immediate threat to the southern way of life.
  c. while the overall loss of property was relatively insignificant, the loss of honor and the passing of moral judgments by northerners were felt more.
  d. escaped slaves would likely organize a black army to stage armed rebellions against white southern planters and their plantations.
  e. escaped slaves would travel North or to Canada and quickly undermine the legitimacy of southerners’ racial superiority theories among political leaders of the North and the South.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad

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