Question 1
The issue of slavery in the territories came to a head when:
A) California applied for statehood.
B) Kansas split on slavery.
C) silver was discovered in Nevada.
D) Arizona applied for statehood.
Question 2
Southern political strategies of the 1850s depended on:
A) stopping the Underground Railroad.
B) the concept of Manifest Destiny.
C) popular sovereignty.
D) maintaining supremacy in the U.S. Senate.
Question 3
Southerners favored American expansion into Mexico and Cuba because they:
A) felt that slavery could grow there.
B) wanted to spread the American ideology of liberty.
C) were strong nationalists.
D) wanted a barrier against South American threats.
Question 4
Many northerners were fearful of what they called:
A) the power of the purse.
B) the power of King Cotton.'
C) the slave power.
D) Southern Power.
Question 5
The election of 1848 was a warning that:
A) political parties no longer represented a national political community.
B) Democratic attacks on slavery threatened to fragment the Union.
C) the South was becoming a Whig-only region.
D) the nation outweighed section in most voters' minds.
