American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 13: THE IMPENDING CRISIS

True or False Quiz

1
The "penny press" was important because it exposed a significant proportion of the population to the rhetoric of nationalistic politicians.
A)True
B)False
2
Indian attack was the greatest danger westward immigrants faced.
A)True
B)False
3
Texas was not able to get any European nation to recognize it as an independent nation.
A)True
B)False
4
Though a "dark horse" candidate, James K. Polk was not an obscure politician.
A)True
B)False
5
The Oregon question was finally settled by Britain surrendering claims below the 54th parallel.
A)True
B)False
6
The United States did not take all of Mexico because its invasion of that country was not successful.
A)True
B)False
7
The Wilmot Proviso prohibited slavery in the territory taken from Mexico.
A)True
B)False
8
The South supported Taylor because he was a Southerner and a slaveholder.
A)True
B)False
9
The Compromise of 1850 passed, despite the opposition of Webster and Calhoun.
A)True
B)False
10
After 1850 the Whig Party emerged as the one party without sectional divisions.
A)True
B)False
11
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the antislavery provision of the Missouri Compromise.
A)True
B)False
12
Northerner's saw Preston Brooks's attack on Charles Sumner as an example of the barbarism of the South, while Southerners believed Sumner had insulted Brooks's uncle and got what he deserved.
A)True
B)False
13
Northerners saw the "gag rule" as evidence of the "slave power conspiracy" against their liberties.
A)True
B)False
14
President Buchanan proved a firm and decisive president at the very time the nation needed one.
A)True
B)False
15
The Republican Party became the party of the "free soil/free labor" ideology.
A)True
B)False
16
With Lincoln's election, the Republicans controlled both the legislative and the executive branches of the government.
A)True
B)False
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