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American Pageant 16th Edition By David M. Kennedy

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Chapter_19_Drifting_Toward_Disunion_1854_1861 (1)

 

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Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

53. The central plank(s) of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was/were

  a. popular sovereignty.
  b. expansionism.
  c. proslavery.
  d. abolitionism.
  e. antiforeignism and anti-Catholicism.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   “Old Buck” Versus “the Pathfinder”

 

54. In the presidential election of 1856, the Republicans

  a. although not victorious, revealed impressive popular appeal in the Northeast and parts of the West for the first presidential election.
  b. lost behind their most popular leader, Senator William Seward.
  c. made their debut as the most successful third party in American history.
  d. proved unable to present a clear platform on slavery expansion.
  e. finished third behind the Democrats and the Know-Nothings.

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Electoral Fruits of 1856

 

55. The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of

  a. southern threats that a Republican victory would tantamount be a declaration of war.
  b. lingering support for slavery in the North.
  c. northern bullyism.
  d. the North’s unwillingness at this stage to let the South depart in peace.
  e. the division between Democrats and Know-Nothings.

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Electoral Fruits of 1856

 

56. The MOST significant result of the election of 1856 was that it

  a. showed that the Democrats still remained the majority party in the country.
  b. demonstrated the importance of charismatic leadership in the presidency.
  c. foreshadowed an ominous sectional clash over slavery in the election of 1860.
  d. offered the prospect of a viable presidential candidacy for Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas in 1860.
  e. signalled the demise of the Know-Nothing (American) Party.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Electoral Fruits of 1856

 

57. As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because

  a. of innate liberalism.
  b. the Democrats consistently presented superior presidential and congressional candidates to the other parties.
  c. many Democrats involved in interstate commerce did not want to lose their profitable business connections with the South.
  d. the Democrats were the only national party.
  e. the presidential Democratic candidates were the only major or minor party candidates truly committed to preserving the Union at almost any cost.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Electoral Fruits of 1856

 

58. In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court

  a. freed Dred Scott but upheld the Missouri Compromise.
  b. denied Scott’s appeal but held that slaves could not be taken into free territories.
  c. essentially upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
  d. tried to settle the immediate issue on technical legal grounds.
  e. issued a broad judicial decision ruling that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Dred Scott Bombshell

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