Which Increased Sectional Tensions In The 1850S

Question:

Answer: b

Question: Which increased sectional tensions in the 1850s?

the Mexican-American War

the Mexican Cession

the Fugitive Slave Act

the California Gold Rush

Answer: c

Question: Land acquired through the Mexican Cession is located today in

the northeastern US.

the northwestern US.

the southeastern US.

the southwestern US.

Answer: d

Question: An effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was that

the Democratic Party was formed.

the Missouri Compromise was passed.

Senator Stephen Douglas was elected.

the Republican Party was formed.

Answer: d

Question: Many people moved to California in 1848 following

the Gadsden Purchase.

the outlawing of slavery.

the discovery of gold.

the annexation of Texas.

Answer: c

Question: In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln

failed to win a majority of the electoral vote.

won only forty percent of the popular vote.

failed to win any Northern states.

won fewer states than Stephen A. Douglas.

Answer: b

Question: After the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Dred Scott case, many people in the North believed that

slavery might become legal everywhere.

slavery might be banned everywhere.

formerly enslaved people would move to the North.

formerly enslaved people would stay in the South.

Answer: a

Question: A result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was that

Texas gained much of the land controlled by Mexico.

Texas became an independent republic.

the United States got control of the Mexican Cession.

the United States gave control of California to Mexico.

Answer: c

Question: When California applied for statehood, Southern states feared

the addition of a free state.

the escape of enslaved workers.

the passage of new laws to maintain slavery.

the rise of the gold mining industry.

Answer: a

Question: During the Southern secession of 1861, which state voted last to leave the Union?

Florida

Georgia

Virginia

Texas

Answer: d